Collection: Erica Iman - Featured Artist

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Erica Iman received her BFA in Ceramics and BSE in Art from the University of Missouri Columbia in 2005 and obtained her MFA in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2012. Between earning her degrees she served 2 years in the U.S. Peace Corps on the Eastern Steppe of Mongolia teaching English and Gardening while exploring the Gobi desert and Altai Mountains.  In 2007, she was a selected participant in the International Workshop for Ceramic Arts in Tokoname, (IWCAT) Japan program, spending the summer studying contemporary and ancient Japanese pottery and culture.   

Erica has a studio in Kansas City and is a founding member of the KC Urban Potters, a cooperative that presents the Midwest Potter Fest in Kansas City each year.  She has taught in various schools and art centers, was awarded second place in the San Angelo National Ceramic Competition with the work being purchased by the San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, and received an honorable mention in the 10th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan.  Erica recently participated in Steinbeisser’s Experimental Gastronomy dinner in San Francisco and will be part of an upcoming show at Direktorenhaus Art Museum in Berlin.

Statement:

I am a sculptor, potter, and painter working primarily in clay and raw earth materials. My forms are based in geology and fragmented landscapes.

I work intuitively while making, responding to the form, surface and overall feel, ripping at edges and emphasizing natural cracks.  Many of my techniques come from mimicking nature's processes such as freeze and thaw, extreme moisture and drought, and erosion.

Intuition and an inner, centered emotion both play a large role during the creation of my work. I push back and forth between masculine and feminine, raw and refined; the exuberance of traveling to a foreign land and the inner clarity and resonance of simply being.

I’m drawn to a sense of timelessness, the origin story of a stone, a glacier, or cracked desert earth, something that roots us in our existence beyond what humans have constructed.

My work helps locate and orient me in the world.  They are way posts, markers, guides, fragments, or cairns for exploring the essence of our physical and inner landscapes.

Find Erica’s Artaxis page: http://artaxis.org/erica-iman/

Find Erica on Instagram: @ericaiman

** Erica Iman's Artaxis Shop has ended. You can find more work available for sale by visiting the other Featured Artist collections HERE

 


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