Jay Jones

My current work focuses on re-imagining ‘ordinary perception’, creating a paradox and a duality for viewers to rethink something they have preconceived interpretations of. Almost exclusively using traditional materials, I am elevating the mundane and pushing the ordinary into a different realm.

Ceramic has an aptness to take on any shape, surface or color. It has been used as precious material for centuries, while simultaneously providing basic serving functions in impoverished parts of the world to this day. My sculptures are somewhere right in the middle of that spectrum, blending production, craft and fine art.