DECONSTRUCTED ROSE INSPIRED BY KAREN SWYLER

BACKGROUND OF KAREN SWYLER

• Her mother was a ceramist and her father was a physicist, both impacting her work

• Received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1998 from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University

• Became an artist in residence at the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook in 1998- 1999

• Special student at

• Received her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Colorado 2002

• Received the Lilian Fellowship award and became an artist in residence, and ceramics instructor, from 2003-2005 in Montana

• Assistant Professor of Art at Green Mountain College since 2005 as well as the Program Director for the Department of Visual Arts since 2009

WHY KAREN SWYLER?

• Karen's pieces are extremely elegant and flawless 

  • Because the forms are so aesthetically pleasing, I was immediately attracted to them

• I love the idea of relationships being incorporated into clay because it creates a dependence of each piece on the others in addition to a deeper meaning behind the vessels

​HOW DID I INCORPORATE HER STYLE INTO MY PIECE?

• I took Karen's recurring theme of relationships and transformed it into a series of roses that are all unique in size, but fit together as if they were one

• I used subtle colors like Karen for most of the surface 

• I used brightly colored rims unlike Karen's characteristic monochromatic vessels

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