Kate MacDowell. Amore e morte.

Lo sapete, di solito bazzico in questo blog artisti morti, e spesso perdenti. Poi, nella vita privata, frequento e osservo artisti vivi e vegeti. A volte, giovani. A volte giovani talenti come Kate MacDowell, americana. Realizza sculture in porcellana per esplorare con poesia e cinismo il rapporto tra uomini e animali. Un conflitto insanabile. “Noi siamo parte del mondo animale, e allo stesso tempo ne siamo i carnefici.” Unendo tecnica settecentesca e visione post atomico. Fico.

“I’ve lived and worked in many different environments and cultures that have influenced the way I perceive the world, and therefore my pieces. These experiences have ranged from teaching in urban high schools and producing websites in the high-tech corporate environment, to volunteering at a meditation retreat center in rural India a few hours outside of the fever pitch of Bombay. I’ve also collected visual imagery and ideas from my travels through Renaissance Italy, Classical and Minoan Greece, Nepal and Thailand.

Upon returning to the United States in 2004, after a year and a half working overseas, I began to study ceramics full-time at the ArtCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina and later at Portland Community College's Cascade campus and the Oregon College of Art and Craft's community education program. I have also studied flame-worked glass at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, and participated in an artist residency at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine.” Hi, Kate.