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I make objects about the thing they represent.
By fabricating art using a medium whose intent and preconceived cultural understanding has shifted over time; from absolute necessity in daily life to contemporary luxury object.
I seek an audience willing to participate in a life of living with art.
One that with care and attention can provide a service and benefit the user for many generations just as the craft of making has served the ceramic artist.
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Chris Drobnock, who achieved a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, in 2016, and previously a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a dual concentration in ceramics and printmaking from Edinboro University; lives in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania in the Southern and Middle part of the state.
He spent three months as an academic resident artist at the Tainan National University of the Arts in Southern Taiwan and in 2018 completed a two-year residency at the Clay Studio of Missoula in western Montana.
Drobnock has been operating under RIVER ARTS as a practicing studio potter, sculptor, illustrator, and designer since 2011 when he established his Juniata River location in Mount Union, Pennsylvania.
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He is currently researching hand-fabricated ceramic manufacture; art in the age of mechanical reproduction, and the decorative arts and design. Using these reference points he is examining relationship to the local pre- and post-industrial production of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, cultural significance of the trade, and the handmade outside of contemporary industrial practice.
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Chronically pre-occupied with the utility of object and the human body.