Kevin Snipes - Vessel

3" L x 5" H x 4" W

This vessel created by resident artist Kevin Snipes, explores the boundaries of visual narrative on to functional ceramic. Adorned with bursts of vibrant color and riveting narratives for viewer engagement and enjoyment.

Kevin Snipes is an American artist born in Philadelphia and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a BFA in ceramics and drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994 and concluded graduate studies at the University of Florida in 2003. Snipes combines techniques of narrative figure drawing, text, and hand-formed porcelain constructions to create objects that can be seen as multi-layered paintings. Considering himself a storyteller the narratives he explores are open-ended investigations of difference and otherness, capturing underlying emotional and psychological issues of discrimination. He is interested in what happens when people who are different come together. This manifests in a key aspect of his work which is the front of the piece having a depicted protagonist with the rest of the story unfolding behind them. His intricate way of visual storytelling encourages the viewer to dynamically engage with what's depicted in order to understand that there is a layer of social unease below the surface.

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