Wesley Harvey is known for slab-built, slip-cast and coiled electric kiln fired earthenware assemblages and vessel forms. Harvey coil-builds larger vessels. Surface techniques include colored slips, underglaze, decals, lusters, and glazes.
Early work (2008-2011) used slip-cast kitsch small figurines, chickadees, standing figures, etc. grouped, sometimes monochromatic groupings. Later work employed transfers, hand painting, and lusters. Transition to appropriation, drawing, collage, the use of decal motifs of flowers, posed male figures and painted detail systematically arranged on hand-built ceramic objects, plates, teapots, etc. (2011-2018).
Harvey?s work is derived from queer theory focused on gay male sexuality, and the changes in social acceptance. The Baroque and Rococo periods in decorative art history are seen in Harvey?s use of luster ?gilding? in pottery and framed works.
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