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Cobble
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2019
Ceramic and enamel
15
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14
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14
in.
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38.1
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35.6
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35.6
cm.
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in.
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cm.
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$6,800
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John Shea makes lush, vibrant-toned painted ceramic sculptures that strike a beautiful balance of form and surface.
His works contain an implicit duality - one that transcends time and space. His ceramic sculptures appear at the same time synthetic and naturally formed; as if they could have been pulled from the ground of our earth as much as they seem to have come from the laboratory. Likewise, Shea’s sculpture’s balance a contemporary surface aesthetic with a physicality that looks as if it could have been geologically formed eons ago. Much like the generations of abstract artists before him, Shea seeks more often to ask questions with his work than provide answers to them. READ MORE
John Shea (American, b. 1989) in an American ceramic artist currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. Shea’s abstract sculptures that take a dual lens view as to what constitutes an object, in his own words, “looking at an object as composed of individual elements as well as a set of relationships that inform those objects.” Shea creates abstract compositions built up from individual elements, some geometric in shape, others organic in form. Richly pigmented in vibrant tones, the skillfully applied palette yields a surreal, luminescent quality to the finished work.
Courtesy Hostler Burrows, New York/Los Angeles
