Artist Statement:
Making art working primarily in ceramics and found objects, my practice investigates cultural value systems and culturally coded signifiers through multiple approaches of thinking through ideas with objects and materials. This work begins with the material understandings of 20th century craft practice and embraces theory and concepts from contemporary art. This work often results in crafting and making of sculpture, objects-de art and artifacts, but my focus is articulating ideas, questions and critical observations from a Black lens about the value of objects, materials and the built environment.
Making art working primarily in ceramics and found objects, my practice investigates cultural value systems and culturally coded signifiers through multiple approaches of thinking through ideas with objects and materials. This work begins with the material understandings of 20th century craft practice and embraces theory and concepts from contemporary art. This work often results in crafting and making of sculpture, objects-de art and artifacts, but my focus is articulating ideas, questions and critical observations from a Black lens about the value of objects, materials and the built environment.
JSTN CLMN is a contemporary artist and arts educator who’s focus is an interdisciplinary approach to studio practice that employs art theory, the materiality within the history of craft and their relationship to the modern modes of production and culture as a means to develop a vernacular for the understanding of everyday objects and contemporary art.