Blurring the Lines Between Ceramics & Collage


FROM KOLAJ #23

Matthew Zorn
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Matthew Zorn is a current instructor on record and second year MFA candidate in ceramics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He holds a BA in Art from Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. The work Zorn makes is a strange translation of collage to mixed media and ceramic. He says, “Through glaze calculation and sculpture, I methodically develop the textures and colours that I find most intriguing or unsettling from my collage work to create my ceramic objects. By abstracting what is on paper I hope to further blur the line between familiar and unfamiliar. I push to create work that is truly uncanny.”

A portfolio of Zorn’s work appears in KOLAJ #23.

This artist portfolio appeared in Kolaj #23. To see more, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.

Through glaze calculation and sculpture, I methodically develop the textures and colours that I find most intriguing or unsettling from my collage work to create my ceramic objects.

This artist portfolio in Kolaj #23. To see more, SUBSCRIBE to Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue.

Images (top to bottom):

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8″x5″; found photography, paste; 2018

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28″x12″x8″; stoneware, glaze; 2018

Courtesy of the artist