Flat Head Bear is a ceramic sculpture that captures Austyn Taylor's amusing outlook on animist history, and pop culture (eg flattened cartoon characters) sculpted in a very black, ebony-like finish using Aardvark Clay's Cassius Basaltic.
Austyn says, "I am a humanist, optimist and I suppose, a humorist, too. I make work that is strong and bold while balancing honesty and humility."
Description
From the artist: My work is formed within the populist style of American animation, I give the figures a meta-modernist examination and then pose them to stare self-consciously at the absurdity of our collective humanity. The resulting sculpted and drawn works use “concerned humor” to address subconscious pseudo-spiritual scripts underlying popularly embodied mythologies (psychologies) of self.
Details
Flat Head Bear
- Materials – Aardvark Clay's Cassius Basaltic
- 8.25H x 3.5W
Shipping
This item gets carefully packed and will ship within 5 business days or sooner.
Made In
Artist in Residency: Mendocino, CA
Meet the Artist
Austyn Taylor's art practice is at it’s core a reaction to the deconstructed heaps of culture left by post modernism and a search for value and virtue. Her aim as an artist is to create works which circle around sacred values such as unconditional love, authenticity, imagination and human dignity. For 20 years her work has utilized figurative characters evolved from the closest thing to authentically sacred symbols from her culture – the graphic hand drawn aesthetics found in American animation.
Learn more about Austyn Taylor in our Conversations with an Artist series.
