Kathy Maves

medium: ceramics

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Eureka 2015 Ceramics	Joy Blue I 2015 Ceramics	Henrietta as Quan Lin 2015 Ceramics
Mitosis 2015 Ceramics	Heart, Flower, Loss II 2015 Ceramics

Contact information
N6324 830th St
Elk Mound, WI 54739
Phone Number: 715-797-5122
Email Address: kathymaves@gmail.com
Web site: www.kathymaves.com

Artist statement
My work is functional earthenware pottery with complex abstract imagery. For it, I invented new design and printmaking techniques for ceramics. These techniques combine the ancient book art of marbling, modern and traditional oil painting materials like tempera and industrial surfactants, and design software. I blend the computer’s capacity to create and alter imagery with the ancient practice of paper cutting using a cutter/plotter machine. These innovations create new marks that I find exciting, full of the emotive power of colorful, liquid, open marks.

For me, they are the product of a new imagination; one that sees science, technology, and art as a single stream of thought. This thought rises and wells up with much usefulness, inspiration, and joy. I hope that you enjoy using them as much as I enjoy making them.

Biography
Kathy Maves was born in Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA in 1977. She lives and makes in the Northwestern Wisconsin area. She completed a bachelor’s degree in English Literature at University of Wisconsin-River Falls in 2007 and a Masters in Fine Arts in Ceramics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2015. She has been making and showing ceramics in the Upper Midwest since the late 1990’s. Themes of traditional functional pottery concepts, slip work, and highly original decorative imagery emerge from her diverse output. Her studio practice has included teaching in and out of academic settings, building and firing with a wood kiln, working as a contract and production potter, advocating for local arts groups, and innovative reinventions of ceramic techniques. Her current gallery listings can be found at kathymaves.com