Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild
Photo: Southern Highland Craft Guild

Untitled

USA, 1900
Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
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Materials: N/A
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Form - Sculptural:
Installation - small/intimate scale
Method:
Hand-Built
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Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Cindy Billingsley

Brett Kern is known for slip-cast porcelain sculpture as well as hand-sculpted figurative work. Trained as a potter, Kern translates his interest in collecting toys and memorabilia into his work.

Advertising, film, cartoons, toys, and games serve as primary subject matter for Kern. Inflatable toy dinosaurs, space men, and whoopee cushions are slip cast. He likens the casting method to fossilization: thinking of his work as helping to preserve cultural subject matter. Kern's glaze palette includes a series of bright metallic colors for inflatable toy castings.

Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection

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Southern Highland Craft Guild Collection
Asheville, North Carolina

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