Vince Palacios – Artist Talk – Pyroclastic Flow

Date: Friday, May 3, 2024

Start Time: 4pm – 5pm

Price: Free

Description:

Clay Studio’s exhibiting artist Vince Palacios will conduct an artist talk coinciding with his solo gallery show: Pyroclastic Flow: An Exhibition of Works Recording the Process of Melting. Join us over refreshments after the talk for the opening reception for the exhibition (5pm-7pm).

Vince Palacios (b.1961) is an American ceramic artist born in Flint, Michigan. He received his Masters in Ceramic Art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1994, and prior to that, in 1992, his BFA in ceramics at California State University at Long Beach. He has been working in the field of ceramic art since 1988.

Palacios has gathered extensive experience as a professor at different academic institutions, such as California State University of Long Beach and Western Illinois University, among others. He is now working as a lecturer in the Ceramics Department at El Camino College in Torrance, California.

His work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in a number of important private collections such as Alfred University Art Museum in New York as well as in the collections of remarkable museums, including the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long beach, California, and The AMOCA Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California.

The development of Palacios’ works is derived from unique approach points. Firstly, in the context of materiality, Palacios has a complex crafting process through the use of raw glass and ceramic materials. As a result of his multiplex material process, combined with the exploration of geological processes of pyroclastic interactions, heat and chemical reactions, the American ceramicist creates intricate and playful narratives.

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