HUNTER STAMPS
Assistant Professor of CeramicsRB 229
Phone: 859.257.3291
Email: h.stamps@uky.edu
Website: hunterstampssculpture.com
Education: M.F.A. University of Indiana, Bloomington
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My work investigates how the mind collects and organizes fragmented images from memory in order to continuously recreate a sense of history and self. The work manipulates, abstracts, and conceptualizes the body’s material and psychological reality. The intent of my work is to seduce and engage the viewer with temporal surfaces and organic formal abstractions that trigger meditation on the mutability of the mind and body.
Psychological phobias, obsessions, aberrations, and anxieties are communicated through the tension and gesture of my formal language. Certain images and surfaces resonate in my mind and are synthesized into abstract visualizations for my sculptures. These visual references include cropped figurative photographs, scientific medical displays and other images of contortion, deformity and fluidity. This process of organic abstraction uses a vocabulary of reference to the body’s physicality without any literal details.
Hunter Stamps received his M.F.A from Indiana University in Bloomington and his B.F.A from the University of North Carolina in Asheville. He has taught ceramics, sculpture, three-dimensional design and art appreciation courses. Hunter’s work is exhibited in national and international juried, invitational, and solo exhibitions. His work has been published in periodicals such as Ceramics Monthly and represented by galleries in New York and Washington, D.C.
Hunter is fascinated with kiln technology and has built several soda, salt, and large wood-burning kilns over the years. He led a group of students in the experimental research, design and construction of a kiln fueled by used vegetable oil from local restaurants. Hunter also collaborates with his wife Amelia on large scale public art commissions. Their most recent project was an outdoor ceramic tile mural at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock, Arkansas.