Krista Grecco

While in college, I had the pleasure of taking an art class under the direction of Krista Grecco. The class was a 2D class, and Grecco is a ceramicist, so there were humerus moments to be had. Despite her lack of 2-dimensional art knowledge, Grecco is an amazing sculptor and ceramicist. She plays with the idea of normal and her art is often thought provoking. About her work, Grecco says,

I view my sculptures as souvenirs of life, immortalizing the awkward, piecing and pairing together the partially remembered bits of our past. I draw from memory, allowing the media, popular culture and the tales of my own and others to mingle and mangle together. Old stuffed animals, figurines and dolls are forms that I like to work with because they are absolutely steeped in nostalgia and peculiarity. Beyond the surface of sugary-sweetness lies a residue of life, reflected in the nicks and tears that detail an unknown past. I am not concerned with portraying the physical exactness of an object or figure, I want to reveal the emotion linked to its memory; the visceral details. As a result, my work seems to exist in a realm between attractive and repulsive, real and unreal.

She now teaches at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University. If you are in Georgia, hurry and take one of her classes now! She is a guest instructor and won't be around forever!