Biography
Rick
Dunn has an Master of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville and a Bachelor of Science from College of the Ozarks.
He currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri where he makes pots
and teaches at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park.
Artist Statement
For
the last few years, my work has been divided into two areas,
functional vessels and decorative/sculptural tiles.
My functional work draws on a wide variety of sources:
Byzantine architecture Cycladic art, tin lunchboxes,
commercial plastics and on and on . I love objects that
have character that can only come with age, but I also
appreciate the beauty in the new. While my work may not
be drawing obviously on a specific object, hopefully the
synthesis of historical and contemporary sensibilities
yields an interesting product.
The tiles are an ongoing project whose subject matter
varies. Lately they have focused primarily on the role
of consumerism in our or more specifically my life. In
this particular series, this notion is embodied by both
the idea and actual word "more" and the notion of
"habits to avoid."
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