Tower Vessel Pair

slipcast porcelain

4 x 4 x 17 inches each

Originally from Madison Wisconsin, Daniel currently lives in North Carolina, where he is a long term Resident Artist (21'-24') at the Penland School of Craft. He holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2011). Daniel was Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (15'-17') and participated in a variety of residencies including the Jentel Foundation, AZ West, The Bright Angle, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Western New Mexico University. His work has been shown throughout the US in a variety of group and solo exhibitions.

Daniel Garver is a clay artist, his work consists of functional and sculptural slipcast ceramics. The studio work is focused on creating systems which result in iterative processes that investigate structure and form. He has constructed a comprehensive library of interchangeable plaster mold parts from which he can compose a wide range of ceramic slipcast forms that are unique from, yet also related to one another. The work is pushed further through the use of color and pattern in relation to the structural composition. For source material, Daniel researches cast concrete, mid modern design, brutalist architecture and industrial design to inform his work. Daniel is currently a long term resident at the Penland School of Craft.

This collection of work is all made from slipcast porcelain. The process of slipcasting utilizes plaster molds in which liquid porcelain (casting slip) is poured into the molds, and the plaster pulls the water content out of the slip forming a shell which is the resulting form, object or pot. This method was developed to readily recreate identical forms in a reliable fashion, I use the same method but have altered the process in such a way that I can construct a variety of forms from the same mold parts. This collection was been designed and constructed from a library of interchangeable plaster molds parts that can be assembled in a variety of forms which makes them all related to one another for a cohesive collection of functional ceramic pieces. Furthermore the molds were designed so that I can work into the surface of the pots by inlaying colored or black and white porcelain to compose some striking patterns.