2015 NCECA Emerging Artist - Andrew Casto

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Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana,1996-2000.

The School of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa 2007-2010.

The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana, 2011-2012.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices

Entropy (arrow of time); detail, 2012.

seeking purpose and beauty within natural conditions of disorder

Assemblage 32; detail, 2011.

Assemblages 61 & 52, dimensions various (approximately 20-24” height each), ceramic, luster, rubber, 2014 & 2013.

Various source material, Wikimedia Commons.

Dirge; detail, 2012.

Coral reef nursery, Key Largo, FL.

Assemblage 43, 20x28x32", ceramic, glaze, luster, multiple firings, 2012.

The University of Iowa Fine Arts Campus, June, 2008.

Hierarchical vs. Organic Design Strategies

Functional work, 2007.

Flood cleanup, University of Iowa arts campus and surrounding area, 2008.

Work in progress, Kansas State University, 2015.

Assemblage 44, encased ceramic, casting slip, glaze, gold luster, multiple firings, 2011.Assemblage 44, 34x12x14", ceramic, glaze, luster, multiple firings.

Assemblage 67: 18x9x12", ceramic, luster, rubber, multiple firings, 2014.

The Breeders: 20x46x50”, ceramic, glaze, luster, rubber, wood, hardware, 2013.

Assemblage 63: 8x7x10", ceramic, luster, multiple firings, 2014.

Getty Central Garden, designed by Robert Irwin.

Assemblage 64: 12x13x28", ceramic, luster, acrylic, wood, hardware, multiple firings, 2014.

Before and after shots of Assemblage 33, 7x8x20”, ceramic, glaze, gold luster, rubber, multiple firings.

Appropriated elements, constructed by fellow Bray residents Ben Krupka and Kenyon Hanson.

Assemblage 43: 24x14x22", ceramic, wood, plexi-glass, epoxy, rubber, hardware, gold luster, 2012.

Expansionist View: 14x24x20", ceramic, MDF, hardware, gold luster, 2012.

Time Check & New Bohemia neighborhoods, Cedar Rapids, IA, April, 2013.

Flood relics/samples, Cedar Rapids, IA, April, 2013.

Flood relics/samples, prepping for rubber molds and polystyrene foam casting.

Assemblage 51: 14x7x19”, ceramic, rubber, luster, 2013.

Detail, Assemblage 63, ceramic, luster, 2014.

Assemblage 70 (Detetives lie too): found object, wood, plastic, rubber, hardware, 2014.

Assemblage 61, ceramic, rubber, luster, polyethylene, found object, 2014.

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