Ceramics have been a notably wide type of art. By combining raw materials, water, clay, and shaping it through a kiln at high temperatures to bake it. Ceramics are used in products that make our everyday lives easier such as kitchenware, glass, or even rocketships! Ceramics date back to 23000 BCE for figurines and animals in the Czech Republic. Ceramics have been used for religious, and cultural purposes as well.
Coile Hooven, a ceramist, has been working with
porcelain and pottery to create sculptures that bring the history of women to life.
Through her work, she depicts gender inequality, pleasures, fears, and especially
women’s work. As a studio artist, her work has been shown in multiple exhibits. She
also founded Hooven & Hooven, a company that produces ornaments.
<- One of her most notable works, The Last Straw, is inspired by dream interpretation. This piece of ceramic explores feminist ideologies and addresses the pleasures and struggles of being a human. Coille Hooven incorporates a vessel whose chest lies flat topped by a teacup. Her ceramic questions: if the vessel does fall off, it is
towards her “demise or freedom?” This piece of work emphasized the conflicted and contrasting views about womanhood.
Sources:
https://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/sites/default/files/hooven_coille_mclaughlin_biography.pdf
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