Jennifer Masley
cycles of intention
raw clay, plastic, wood, 2023
About the Artist
In my studio, I think about my relationship with the object through the lens of history, craft, and my personal experience. My sculptures often become flamboyant formal explorations of material and process. I play with the aesthetic information sourced from generic ceramic pottery, home decor, and Ikea furniture. Through compositional play, I make fun of contemporary material intelligence and the regurgitation of design. I am interested in redundancy in object making because of the cyclical nature of mass-produced products that engage in a cycle of mimicking existing design objects, reducing cost to increase profit, and back to influencing art and ironic/meta humor. I like when things seem familiar and yet are either out of place, altered, or generationally separated to create dissonance with the identifying meaning or source.
Jennifer Masley (b. 1994, Temple, TX) is an artist based in Akron, OH. She holds a BFA from Texas State University and has received her MFA from Kent State University. She has shown her work nationally with Roy G Biv Gallery, the Artist Archive of the Western Reserve, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Sculpture X, and the CAN Triennial. She has curated exhibitions within the Northeast Ohio region and with The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
