Taryn Kneteman
The hour before sleep, Porcelain, ceramic stain, wax, 12 x 12 x 2.5 inches, 2021.
The lake, Porcelain, ceramic stain, wax, stone, 12 x 12 x 4 inches, 2021.
A leaf is a labyrinth, Porcelain, ceramic stain, wax, 8 x 8 x 2 inches, 2021.
Blue egg, Porcelain, ceramic stain, wax, 8 x 8 x 2 inches, 2021.
Wind patterns of thought, Porcelain, ceramic stain, wax, 12 x 12 x 2.5 inches, 2021.
Taryn Kneteman is a visual artist preoccupied with material transformation. She documents moving bodies and changes of state with sculpture, video, and printmaking. Using tactile, process-intensive working methods that offer chances for unexpected intervention – from materials, weather, technological glitches, and feedback – she combines stretches of habitual routine with gestures of dream-like divergence. Kneteman has exhibited work at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Antimatter [media art], Walter Phillips Gallery, and SNAP Gallery. Intertwining with her individual practice, she has an ongoing collaborative body of work with artist Alma Louise Visscher. Most recently they were artists in residence at Yorath House Artist Studio and Mitchell Art Gallery. She lives and works in amiskwacîwâskahikan.
About the Works
This series of stained porcelain and stone sculptures is an inquiry into the relationship between porosity and permanence. Patterns of holes carved into clay make a slab more fragile, while also becoming pathways for air, water, shadow, and ideas. Making these sculptures, I tried to imagine what a thought in flux could look like, and whether it’s possible to render a moment of change.