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Stellar Gallery Presents New Works by Ken Foster |
Michael Frye G Dan Mitchell |
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Ken Foster has spent the last three decades creating hand painted utilitarian stoneware and porcelain in a wide range of forms and styles. Ken has been a professional potter since the 1970s, and owns and operates Oakhurst Pottery, a small community pottery studio in the California foothills just south of Yosemite National Park. Ken's utilitarian ceramics are inspired by his desire to create works of art that are both beautiful and functional.
Others are more closely related to the artist's previous works, drawing on techniques, forms, and glazes developed over many years as a working potter. In this vein, Foster has created a body of robust works inspired in part by day to day experience, and also by boyhood memories of salmon fishing with his grandfather.
Ken's utilitarian ceramics are available through Williams Gallery West in Oakhurst. |
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Ken's desire to explore new ideas and techniques led him to the
University of California at Fresno, where he received his MFA degree in
2005. Ken's new work is bold in form and ambitious in scale, with
some pieces as large as 7' tall. Some of Foster's new works are a
radical departure from his past experience, combining large scale
vessels, geometric forms, and detailed hand drawn figurative
elements.