Ani Kasten
Large Bowl with Wire Drawings
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
20h x 18w in
12/19
AK053
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Large Bowl with Woven Lip
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire, studio debris, gold leaf, 2019
Mixed media
14h x 16w x 10d in
12/19
AK066
$ 1,350.00
Ani Kasten
Footed Vessel with Wire Drawing
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and metal wire; h: 8" x d: 6" x w: 10"; 2019, 2019
Mixed media
8h x 6w x 10d in
12/19
AK065
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Yellow Robot
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips and glazes, kiln coil, nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
11h x 8w in
12/19
AK049
$ 850.00
Ani Kasten
Low Bowl with Blue Ring Handle
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
3h x 12w in
12/19
AK058
$ 450.00
Ani Kasten
Bowl with Electric Blue Handles;
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips and glazes
4h x 12w in
12/19
AK079
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Tea Bowl
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
3h x 5w in
12/19
AK085
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Tea Bowl
black stoneware and porcelain with slips, glazes, and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
3h x 5w in
12/19
AK086
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Tea Bowl
black stoneware and porcelain with slips, glazes and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
3h x 5w in
12/19
AK087
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Tall Lidded Box
black stoneware and porcelain with slips and glazes, 2019
Stoneware, mixed media
12h x 5w x 6d in
12/19
AK076
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Box I
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and studio debris, 2019
Mixed media
5h x 5w
12/19
AK068
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kuriniki Box II
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and studio debris, 2019
Mixed media
5h x 5w
12/19
AK069
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Box III
black stoneware and porcelain with slips, glazes, and studio debris, 2019
Mixed media
5h x 5w
12/19
AK070
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Box IV
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and studio debris, 2019
Mixed media
5h x 5w
12/19
AK071
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Box V
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire and studio debris, 2019
Mixed media
5h x 5w
12/19
AK072
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Box VI
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic, with basalt chunks and nichrome wire, 2019
Stoneware, mixed media
5h x 5w in
12/19
AK081
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Box IX
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire, 2019
Stoneware, mixed media
5h x 5w in
12/19
AK084
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Earthly Creature I
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
10h x 8w in
12/19
AK052
$ 750.00
Ani Kasten
Earthly Creature II
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, studio debris and nichrome wire, 2019
Mixed media
10h x 8w in
12/19
AK059
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Earthly Creature III
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire and studio debris;, 2019
Mixed media
9h x 9w in
12/19
AK060
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Earthly Creature IV
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire, and studio debris, 2019
Mixed media
13h x 8w in
12/19
AK061
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Earthly Creature V
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire, studio debris and hornets' nest; h: 13" x d: 8"; 2019, 2019
Mixed media
13h x 8w in
12/19
AK062
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Debris Poem #1, 2019
Black stoneware, porcelain, slips, glazes, metal wire, studio debris
7h x 4w in
SOLD
AK045
Ani Kasten
Debris Poem #2, 2019
Black stoneware, porcelain, slips, glazes, metal wire, studio debris
7h x 4w in
AK046
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Debris Poem #3, 2019
Black stoneware, porcelain, slips, glazes, metal wire, studio debris
7h x 4w in
AK047
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Debris Poem #4, 2019
Black stoneware, porcelain, slips, glazes, metal wire, studio debris
7h x 4w in
AK048
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Debris Poem #6
black stoneware and porcelain ceramic with slips, glazes, nichrome wire, kiln coil, 2019
Stoneware, mixed media
8h x 6w in
12/19
AK077
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Whiskey Cups, Yellow, 2019
porcelain
4h x 3w in
12/19
AK088
SOLD
Ani Kasten
Kurinuki Whiskey Cups; carved porcelain with glazes; h: 4" x d: 3"; 2019, 2019
porcelain
4h x 3w in
12/19
AK075
SOLD
Show Statement
This latest body of work builds on Kasten’s continued fascination with deconstructed vessel forms and introduces a new series of sculptural works called ‘Debris Poems’. Kasten was attracted to exploring the idea of a visual poem in her ceramic work by creating sculptural compositions from fragments and debris. A poem shears away everything but the most essential, evoking an emotional response through the sparest communication, constructing concepts and feelings into a hewn verbal form, without engaging narrative or logic. Working within the concept of visual poems, Kasten employs the ceramic medium to reflect on issues weighing on all of our minds, such as environmental collapse, social collapse, and inner and outer strife. Earth materials like clay and rocks provide such a perfect metaphor for exploring these ideas, as working in clay is about the search for balance between the natural tendencies of the materials and the craft that is brought about by contact with the human hand. Faced with monumental forces of nature and entropy, a sadness and feeling of futility is provoked with the notion that human hubris seeks to create lasting structure and survival in the face of decimation by forces outside of our control—earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, tornadoes, violence and war. In Kasten’s latest group of sculptural vessels, she reveals emerging structures and constructs under stress, made by the human hand but fighting against collapsing infrastructure. They delve into the cracking apart, warping and erosion that are natural expressions of the material, and explore the beauty and sadness in building from wreckage, such as a little Robot made from scavenged shards of something former, with two little ears made from fossilized hornets’ nests. In the act of scavenging, building and creating the visual poems, Kasten is searching for beauty and harmony in the act of piecing back together what may seem like meaningless detritus of a collapsing world, reclaiming a tenuous and fragile feeling of meaning and purpose.
