Chip Clawson is known for architectural ceramics, sculpture, and pottery. He focuses on large-scale architectural works for which he relies on his home studio and yard to develop prototypes. Works are often mixed media: clay, concrete, and other material. He draws inspiration from the natural, man-made and site-specific worlds related to his creations. Large-scale projects may be benches or walls that are sculptural forms or sets of monumental arches with unique column structures. Clawson encourages audience?s engagement with each sculptural environments he creates. Since retiring from Archie Bray, his own small yard has become a living installation of twisting poured concrete columns with random layers of small earthenware press molded sea shells like ?fossils? forms.
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