Paul Ajibolade
Professor Lauren Clay
ARTS 3320.01
6 October 2015
A Look at Ryan Kelly
Ryan Kelley is a ceramics artist who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio State University in the Art Department. Kelly’s education consists of receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) and his Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Ohio State University (OSU). Kelly has won several awards and achievements for his artwork including winning the Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition Series, an annual juried competition for professional artists living in the Philadelphia region. He also became an Independence Foundation Fellow in Visual Arts, being recognized for future artistic promise and overall artistic …show more content…
Ryan Kelly is a very interesting artist due to the fact that though he works mainly in ceramics, his pieces give off more of a stage prop presence. This makes sense due to the fact that almost all of his pieces are used for his Performance and Video work. He does have a series of earthenware sculptures titled Collectibles that differ from his other …show more content…
These semi-anamorphic both don a human head and an animalistic body. All of the pieces in this series are fantastical and whimsical in nature. This is partly due to the subject matter alone or among other formal elements. Goat Buddy for example, is a piece that has a body of a young goat while the neck and have mostly human feature, excluding the pointed ears and curved horns protruding out of the forehead. Grandpa Snake is a piece that has the body of a snake coiled around a two-branched tree with of face of a grimacing old man, bald with a thick mustache. The rest of the pieces in this series include Faux Staffordshire Spaniels (pair), Turkey Time, Poodle Party, Hog-Wild, and Vulture which are sculpture, also in earthenware, of two Staffordshire Spaniels, a turkey, a poodle, a pig, and a vulture respectively. Other elements that cause all these pieces to have such a whimsical and fantastical presence are the limited color palette and the glaze work. With colors being of the pastel variety consisting of mainly blue, pink and green having such presence and atmosphere is inevitable. The glaze work is what mainly elevates the craft in these pieces. Exuberating both smooth and rough textures, the mishima under glaze work pays attention to detail giving all figures and objects depicted in the piece value and depth by choosing darker shades of under glaze
Professor Lauren Clay
ARTS 3320.01
6 October 2015
A Look at Ryan Kelly
Ryan Kelley is a ceramics artist who is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio State University in the Art Department. Kelly’s education consists of receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) and his Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Ohio State University (OSU). Kelly has won several awards and achievements for his artwork including winning the Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition Series, an annual juried competition for professional artists living in the Philadelphia region. He also became an Independence Foundation Fellow in Visual Arts, being recognized for future artistic promise and overall artistic …show more content…
Ryan Kelly is a very interesting artist due to the fact that though he works mainly in ceramics, his pieces give off more of a stage prop presence. This makes sense due to the fact that almost all of his pieces are used for his Performance and Video work. He does have a series of earthenware sculptures titled Collectibles that differ from his other …show more content…
These semi-anamorphic both don a human head and an animalistic body. All of the pieces in this series are fantastical and whimsical in nature. This is partly due to the subject matter alone or among other formal elements. Goat Buddy for example, is a piece that has a body of a young goat while the neck and have mostly human feature, excluding the pointed ears and curved horns protruding out of the forehead. Grandpa Snake is a piece that has the body of a snake coiled around a two-branched tree with of face of a grimacing old man, bald with a thick mustache. The rest of the pieces in this series include Faux Staffordshire Spaniels (pair), Turkey Time, Poodle Party, Hog-Wild, and Vulture which are sculpture, also in earthenware, of two Staffordshire Spaniels, a turkey, a poodle, a pig, and a vulture respectively. Other elements that cause all these pieces to have such a whimsical and fantastical presence are the limited color palette and the glaze work. With colors being of the pastel variety consisting of mainly blue, pink and green having such presence and atmosphere is inevitable. The glaze work is what mainly elevates the craft in these pieces. Exuberating both smooth and rough textures, the mishima under glaze work pays attention to detail giving all figures and objects depicted in the piece value and depth by choosing darker shades of under glaze