Tim Kawayzyck 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 kawayzyck ceramics. The old adage one man s trash is another s treasure couldn t be more true with tom who adds. 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. Ceramics artist tim kowalczyk from illinois creates cups mugs and plates that look exactly like cardboard. Kowalczyk is able to expertly craft ceramic pieces that emulate unconventional material muses ranging from dilapidated cardboard to tin cans.

It s only when you touch the objects that you realize all is not what it seems. To the artist reproducing these discarded items as ceramic wares is comparable to creating a poem. Tim kowalczyk leaning paint brush set white media. To memorialize these items kowalczyk creates their likeness in clay creating works that look.

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A true creative tim kowalczyk finds beauty in unexpected objects. He was drawn to the art of ceramics because of its ability to replicate the forms and textures of other. Tim took a year off before attending illinois state university for tim s mfa in ceramics. He is the adjunct instructor for ceramics at illinois central.

For example to make the cardboard cups and plates feel realistic he glazes the ceramics in certain areas to make it look like there s tape on them. It is in these typical throw aways that he finds beauty an attraction to the history embedded in their wrinkles and folds. Tim kowalczyk did his undergrad at southern illinois university carbondale and majored in art education and ceramics with a minor art history. Tim makes this ceramic cardboard out of his home in minonk il.

9 25 x 4 5 x 2 5 inches each edition. In 2011 tim graduated and moved to a small town 30 minutes north of normal called minonk which is where tim. 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.