NEW
Shadow Vessels
On view at the Seattle Art Fair July 17-20
Center for Community Ceramics Booth
This is Jeff Campana's latest work. A continuation of ideas and lessons from the Assemblage Vessels series, utilizing technologies learned in the Pixel Pottery line, these large vessels are built uniquely from a growing and evolving library of digitally created mold modules.
This work is cast from black pigmented porcelain slip and diamond-polished to a soft sheen. The reflection paired with the shadows cast inside the broken surface create a stunning visiual effect.
Ongoing
Pixel Pottery
In unlimited editions, this work is designed and built for every day use. While the forms are simple and utilitarian, each form is broken down in the digital environment into voxels(volume pixels), which create pattern through the formal dissonance of tiny cubic elements describing rounded forms. All of these are made in Jeff Campana's personal studio in Kennesaw, Georgia by him and assistants.
2015-2020
Assemblage Vessels
This body of work, retired in 2020, is an exploration in modularity. Each vessel is uniquely generated by the artist's intuition and accumulated experience within an evolving system of parts and fragmented forms.
Soda fired surface enhances the form, as the firing atmosphere affects protected and exposed areas differently. The mold system wore out and was not replaced in 2020, when conception and planning of the larger scale Shadow Vessel series began.
2008-2015, 2024 special edition
Reassembled AKA the Cut-aparts
Jeff's first body of work to become well known, these functional pots are cut apart and immediately re-assembled to create a decoration through disassembly. Each like is a place where the pot was once broken, and glaze fuses the piece whole again. Though discontinued in 2015, he returned to this work briefly during the summer of 2024.
About the artist
Jeff Campana is currently Associate Professor of Art and Ceramics Coordinator at Kennesaw State University in suburban Atlanta, where he has served since 2012. Prior to this appointment at KSU, he has taught at Indiana University Southeast, Bennington College, and University of Louisville. He has had numerous residencies in the United States including The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Studio 740, Red Lodge Clay Center, and The Center for Community Ceramics in Seattle. His work is found in collections and galleries nationally, and he has numerous publications in magazines and books.
A technician and inventor at heart, he explores new techniques and technologies for their potential in the field, and applies the discoveries to his work. In 2024, he co-founded, along with Hope Limyansky-Smith, Blue Bucket Tools LLC, where he designs tools and manages manufacturing.