Kostas Ulevicius

Running Teapot, 1991

10 x 11x 4

Kostas Ulevicius is an American-Lithuanian artist set out on a journey in search of an Ideal Face. His art belongs to far more than one country of origin, encompasses a lot more than the artistic traits of one cultural context, transcends the boundaries of one spiritual tradition. A son of a Gulag and Nazi prison survivor, Ulevicius has had the opportunity to witness through his own family history the cruelty of totalitarian regimes, the impermanence of empires and the fragility of human life. It is not surprising then that his art attempts at addressing the values that do not easily change with time and context, and above all - the harmony that emerges from silent contemplation and solitude. Born and educated in Lithuania, the country that has endured a nearly total destruction of its Jewish community by Nazis as well as the persecution of Roman Catholic Church and all other religious communities by the Soviets, Kostas Ulevicius is in constant search of his own individual form of spirituality and humanism. His art asserts the locus for such spirituality to be The Face of the Other, almost as if in accord with the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.

Ulevicius was featured in The Clay Studio's "Contemporary East European Ceramics" exhibition in 1992 - an influential moment in The Clay Studio's history as many artists from this show donated their works to the studio beginning what is now our permanent collection.

Donated by the Grainer Family

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