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 61^st and 62^nd 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, focusing on both structure and material.  It uses the kiln as a vehicle for deconstruction. The porcelain grid systems he creates often begin as digital renderings that are later meticulously fabricated by hand. These structures become the architecture over which to stretch a fluid skin that is allowed to warp or collapse under 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. They strive to pair labored construction with unpredictability, and capture the entropy embodied in the process.