Peter Beasecker

Peter Beasecker – returning guest artist

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Peter Beasecker started teaching in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2009, after a 17-year career at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Peter is a Professor of Art teaching ceramics and graduate studies.  He has received numerous awards and distinctions in his career, including being NYFA Fellow.  Peter has exhibited extensively in national and international venues, and his work is included in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, The Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Mint Museum in North Carolina.  He has been a visiting artist and workshop leader at over sixty institutions, including Anderson Ranch, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Curaumilla Art Centre (Chile), Golden Bridge Pottery (India), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Penland School of Crafts.  Peter was the co-coordinator of the Utilitarian Clay Symposium at Arrowmont from 1996 - 2016.  He currently maintains a studio in Cazenovia, New York. 

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The relationships that most interest me right now are those found in such formal, well-worn queries as transparency/opacity, vertical/horizontal, and symmetry/asymmetry - as negotiated by intention and chance.  As there is an increased premium on speed and efficiency, I feel more compelled to offer a slow and sometimes awkward experience, both in the reading and real use of a pot.  Perhaps this is an antiquated and knee-jerk response for anyone involved with the production of a handmade object, and the inherent inefficiencies of time-intensive processes (at least mine). In response to the obsession with ‘fast’, I find myself more drawn to making the ‘slow’ object, such as a simple martini cup.

 

​peterbeasecker.com

prbeasec@syr.edu

​Cazenovia, New York