Meredith Host
Chuck Aydlett is known for bothfunctional and sculpural earthenware (using a majolica glaze) and stoneware pottery. He uses various techniques including casting and hand-building to create cups, teapots, pitchers, and complex sculptures ...
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- Biography
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Chuck Aydlett is known for bothfunctional and sculpural earthenware (using a majolica glaze) and stoneware pottery. He uses various techniques including casting and hand-building to create cups, teapots, pitchers, and complex sculptures referencing human, animal and geometric forms. The dreamlike and surreal detailed drawings on his work are executed with under-glaze pencils, sometimes accented by silver like metallic lozenges and paints. Aydlett uses personal surreal imagery with mixes of imaginary, historic, and contemporary references. In the second decade of the 20th century Aydlett began to attach a reflective thin black plastic ?puddle? form to the underside of a ceramic object as an integral part of the object. The matt underside of this ?puddle? form is signed and acts like a plinth to separate the sculptural vessel form its surroundings.
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2002-2004
Resident Artist, School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
2004-2005Resident Artist, Salad Days Artist, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
2007Resident Artist, The Belden Brick Company, Sugarcreek, Ohio
2008Resident Artist, Dresdener Porzellan, Porcelain Society of Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, Dresden, Germany
2011Summer Resident, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
2012Resident Artist, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
- Primary Work Experience
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2004-2005
Mudmobile Instructor, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
2004-2005Instructor, The Deck House School, Edgecomb, Maine
2005-2006Post Baccalaureate Assistant, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
2005-2006Instructor, Red Star Studios, Kansas City, Missouri
2008Instructor, Red Star Studios, Kansas City, Missouri
2009Lecturer, Monsters of Design: Pecha Kucha, Kansas City, Missouri
2009Lecturer, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri
2010Visiting Artist & Lecturer, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado
2011-2013Instructor, Lecturer, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
2011Visiting Artist & Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
2011Visiting Artist & Lecturer, University of Western Illinois, Macomb, Illinois
2012Lecturer, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2012Instructor, Red Star Studios, Kansas City, Missouri
2013Visiting Artist & Lecturer, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
2013Lecturer, University of Arkansas, The Random Lab, Kansas City, Missouri
2013Visiting Artist & Lecturer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Other
- Bibliography
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Hall, Sherman. “Meredith Host Emerging Artist 2011.” Ceramics Monthly (May 2011).
“Kansas City Clay: What's Happening Now.” Ceramics Art and Perception no.83 (March-May 2011).
Tourtillott, Suzanne J.E. 500 Cups: Ceramic Explorations of Utility and Grace. New York, NY: Lark Books, 2004.
Wandless, Paul Andrew. 500 Prints on Clay: An Inspiring Collection of Image Transfers. New York, NY: Lark Books, 2012.
- CV or Resume
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Kuratnick, Jeffrey
- Website(s)
Citation: Kuratnick, Jeffrey Meredith Host, "The Marks Project."
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