3. Juni 2012 - New Ceramics

PROFILE
behind glass, deprived of their potential for play.
They are not scattered on the floor in the aftermath
of an indulgent two-year-old. They are revered as
veterans who have served their time as bringers
of play. Like the toys in her collection, Grecco’s
work speaks to the impossibility of play for
adults. Innocent joy is as unattainable to the
figures in her work as it is to us as viewers.
We are warned that if we tether ourselves too
tightly to reality, we cannot fully comprehend
the wonders of our imagination. In this way,
Grecco comments on contemporary society
by making sculpture that is in tune with
her daily life.
Andy Gambrell is a american painter and
member of the Miami school.
Artist‘s stAtement
I work with the figure, both
human and animal, because it
is a direct way to speak about
emotions. I work with clay
because it is a direct way to
speak about form, volume and
surface. Flesh, folds, fabric and
fur lend life to my sculptures.
Our human need for companionship
and nostalgia fuels the basis
of my work. From the friendships,
stuffed animals and photographs
we have carefully preserved since
childhood, to the humiliations and
heartaches we cannot seem to forget,
we surround ourselves with personal history –
both the sweet and the sour.
By juxtaposing the old and the new, the human and
the animal, the figure and the pedestal, the flesh
and the fabric, the beautiful and the ugly, I endeavour
to present a more realistic view of our romantic
memories. "Dream Horse"
Krista Grecco was born in 1971. she earned a BFa from new
york state college of ceramics at alfred university, magna
cum laude with divisional honours in 1994 and a MFa from
the Ohio state university with a fellowship in 1998. Krista is
a studio artist and a full-time Professor of Foundation studies
at savannah college of art and Design in atlanta, Georgia.
Her work is exhibited and collected nationally and in europe,
recent acquisitions include Musee ariana in Geneva, switzerland.
KRIsta GReccO
kgrecco@gmail.com
exhibition at Kunstforum solothurn, schaalgasse 9,
cH-4500, solothurn, switzerland
tel. / Fax +41 (0)32 621 38 58
9 June - 7 July 2012
20 NEW CERAMICS May / June 2012