Tim Kawalzyck Ceramics

Ceramics artist tim kowalczyk from illinois creates cups mugs and plates that look exactly like cardboard.

Tim kawalzyck ceramics. Ceramic artist tim kowalczyk is drawn to objects of little material value crushed tin cans ripped up cardboard and polaroids that have been damaged during development. Tim makes this ceramic cardboard out of his home in minonk il. To achieve results like that tim has to get pretty creative. This is a social media outlet for people looking to connect with tim kowalczyk and see updates link and other art news tim hears about.

10 color each set unique 9 available year. 9 25 x 4 5 x 2 5 inches each edition. Kowalczyk is able to expertly craft ceramic pieces that emulate unconventional material muses ranging from dilapidated cardboard to tin cans. To the artist reproducing these discarded items as ceramic wares is comparable to creating a poem.

A true creative tim kowalczyk finds beauty in unexpected objects. The old adage one man s trash is another s treasure couldn t be more true with tom who adds. Tim kowalczyk did his undergrad at southern illinois university carbondale and majored in art education and ceramics with a minor art history. He was drawn to the art of ceramics because of its ability to replicate the forms and textures of other.

In an ongoing series entitled tableware ceramic artist tim kowalczyk makes cups mugs trays and plates out of clay that look identical to cardboard. Objects i am drawn to can be described as pathetic absurd antiquated banal or even garbage writes the artist. Tim took a year off before attending illinois state university for tim s mfa in ceramics. It s only when you touch the objects that you realize all is not what it seems.

He is the adjunct instructor for ceramics at illinois central. To memorialize these items kowalczyk creates their likeness in clay creating works that look. In 2011 tim graduated and moved to a small town 30 minutes north of normal called minonk which is where tim. Ceramic and glaze size.

It is in these typical throw aways that he finds beauty an attraction to the history embedded in their wrinkles and folds. Tim kowalczyk leaning paint brush set white media. 29 3k followers 2 615 following 1 749 posts see instagram photos and videos from tim kowalczyk timsceramics. I will be showing with several artiststhat will be at context art miami in december for gander.