Cascade
Completed
2025
Medium
Porcelain / hand built
Dimensions
11 x 11 x 10"
Cost
$1,200
Description
My work explores the tension between acts of labor and collapse, between precision and failure. It is a meditation on entropy that uses architecture as a foil to examine the dichotomy of beauty and loss. I am interested in transformation, which is expressed in both destruction and growth. Much of my work involves creating complex porcelain structures that are encouraged to warp or collapse in the strain of the firing. They expose the relationship between soft and hard, the fluidity of a membrane, and the moment of intersection between these contrasting elements. Ultimately, they are a metaphor for the human condition, paradoxically both broken and at times beautiful.
About this Artist
Peter Christian Johnson
Peter Christian Johnson is currently a Professor of Art at Kent State University after serving more than decade as the head of the ceramics department at Eastern Oregon University. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wheaton College in 1998 and an MFA in Ceramics from Pennsylvania State University in 2003. He has received the Oregon Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship, is a five-time winner of the Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Artist Excellence Award and was a Matsutani Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. He was recently part of the 61st and 62nd editions of the Faenza Prize in Italy, the XVI International Biennial of Artistic Ceramics in Aveiro Portugal, and has work in the current Ceramic Art Andenne Triennial in Belgium. His artwork has been exhibited in Canada, Australia, China, Italy, Korea, Portugal, Belgium, Argentina and throughout the United States. His practice explores transformation,…
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