Awakened From The Deep Tanya Casteel
Regional Emerging Artist-in-Residence
Exhibition Dates: February 3 – 25, 2012
Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, February 3, 6-10pm

Tanya Casteel’s exhibition, Awakened From The Deep, presents a collection of wall-hung ceramic “pillows” depicting how youthful imagination mixes with scientific discoveries to awaken narratives from the deep. The works were made while Casteel was Artspace’s Regional Emerging Artist Residency Program from July 2011-January 2012.

Casteel hand builds her forms in white porcelain. She mixes her own glazes and creates image transfers. The graphic images are a combination of Casteel’s own drawings along with scientific drawings from the 1800s. She transforms these drawings into decals, which she then fires onto the surface of the clay during a third kiln firing, permanently transferring the iron-oxide into the glaze/clay.