The Red Chef and his doppleganger:
Aberrant Ceramics is the artwork of Aaron Nosheny, ceramic artist and potter in Tucson, Arizona.
I work in the medium of stoneware clay and make hand-built pottery, sculpture, hamsas, ornaments, masks, and a variety of other forms.
Self-taught artist on the autism spectrum. I like monsters, insects, weird animals, body horror, horror comedy, Halloween decorations, fast food mascots, kitsch – and all of these creep into my work, but there’s really no overarching theme. I feel like I'm frantically birthing as many clay monstrosities out into the world as I can.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
The Red Chef
This sculpture is an interpretation of a chef figurine bought at a dollar store. I used the face as a mold in these Chef Objects. The source object was a grotesque figure to begin with and I'm mostly happy with the interpretation, but the hands look wrong. It's hard to tell if he's supposed to be warming his hands over a fire in a garbage can or summoning up something unspeakable from his cauldron. I like the crudeness of the face and the small details like the bow tie and the bow securing his apron on the back. I don't have access to a primary red glaze, so I used the plum glaze instead. His name is to differentiate him from The White Chef, the other chef figurine I bought at the same time.
The Red Chef and his doppleganger:
The Red Chef and his doppleganger:
