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- Austin P. Smith
- Rockland, Maine, United States
- Austin was born and raised in Mid-Coast Maine.
From 2003 to 2007 he attended Bennington College in
Southern Vermont, and graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts, focus in Ceramics.
It’s the versatile nature of clay that attracts Austin to this material. Few other materials have so many facets to their process. Especially with slip cast work (which allows the artist to make multiples of one piece) this provides the opportunity for tweaking elements of a piece throughout its physical gestation. This “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure” approach to making can both free an artist to create with abandon, and push him to fine-tune a piece to an exact specification.
Austin’s work explores the dichotomy between utilitarian function and delicate aesthetic. The porcelain and Celadon glazes evoke an almost ethereal lightness, yet the form itself is heavily carved, like a tree trunk transformed by a chainsaw.
Austin has kept a studio at the Lincoln Street Center (Rockland, ME) since 2007, when, after leaving college, he wanted a place to create and be inspired by others creating around him.
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