The Clay Studio offices, galleries, open studio, and school will be closed on Monday, May 26, 2025, in observance of Memorial Day.
Stephanie Kantor
The ceramic vessel is the central theme in my studio practice. I am interested in how vessels can be vehicles for communicating stories, feelings, and metaphors. I’m fascinated by the rich history of ceramics. I use these historic inspirations as a starting point, yet many things change and evolve in my process. My vessels often lose their function and I then empathize with their quirkiness and absurdity all the more. I tend to work in series, and the more objects that I make, the more they digress from my original intention. This speaks to the importance of intuition in practice; practice past, current practice, and the submission to where that practice will lead. Practice does not always make perfect, but certainly it does reveal, and my hands are equal to my mind as my thumbprint becomes a marker of that experience.
My work is predominantly project-based, the content and concepts shift with each new body. Depending on location, interests, and surroundings, I draw on both mundane and meaningful experiences to inspire the content. In the past, I’ve explored concepts such as beauty, the sublime, ornamentation and decoration, artifice, nostalgia, and memory. The results are often mixed media installations that incorporate paintings, wallpaper, fabric, drawings, and furniture to add specificity and content to how the vessels are interpreted. These become self sustained worlds that allows viewers to connect to my personal, idiosyncratic point of view.
The Filters you have chosen do not return any results. Please modify your filter selection.
Did you Know?
50% of your purchase directly supports the artist, and 50% of
your purchase supports the operations of The Clay Studio, a nonprofit that serves 35,000 people,
including 2,000 underserved school children, each year.
