welcome back to meeee
Hello
its been quite a while since I’ve used this space. From spending the last several years dealing with some severe mental health issues, realizing my trans identity, falling into substance issues, and then in the last two years starting my transition and getting sober, I finally feel ready to start using this space as it was meant to be used. I’m finally in a space to be sharing again. Well, to be making things again but also to be sharing the things I make.
It can be scary, honestly, to come back to something that is so important to you after time off, especially extended time off, as needed as it was. I don’t necessarily know what the next step in my artistic practice will be or where it will take me, but I look forward to finding out.
Anyway, I finally started unpacking my pieces in the new studio space and found this one that I honestly don’t really remember making but that I am truly obsessed with. It’s from the last woodfiring I did, in upstate New York in 2021.
anyway, I’ll be updating the website thoroughly soon so keep an eye out, lots of new and old work gonna be dropping (primarily ceramics as that seems to be the only part of my practice I have managed to stick with throughout the chaos of the last 4 or so years).
—Viktor
new ceramic pieces up!
In my giddy anticipation of this year's upcoming Pratt-Munson Williams Procter atmospheric firing workshop just posted a bunch of pieces from last years' session, go ahead and check em out! I'll be adding more up until the beginning of this years session in June, along with some additional images from past workshops in these info+extras updates, so feel free to check back if thats the kinda thing you might be into?
-Viktor
salt fired porcelain+granular manganese clay body, 2016
Pratt Senior Curated Group Show and Open Studios
The 2017 Painting/Drawing graduating class at Pratt Institute decided to open our studios to the public for view in conjunction with a show curated by Kathy Grayson of the Lower East Side contemporary art gallery The Hole!
Artists to be showcased in the curated portion of the event are listed on the Facebook page, and all Painting/Drawing seniors with be showing work in the open studios, with extra space given to those not appearing in the curated show.
For more info check the Facebook event page:
The Garden, Presidents Office Show 2k17
Huge thank you to everyone that came through for the show and yelled about art and gender and graffiti with me and supported me and my fellow artists! This show was a humbling and beautiful, and it was an honor to show with my wonderful and talented, but most importantly dedicated and hardworking studio mates and and to see our work up on the walls and given the recognition we have all worked so hard for! Hell yeah folks
Ida Stein in front of own work, Cyboromantic
Sungwon Hong's No. 3
Matthew Clark's diptych You Do/You Don't
Jared Diaz in front of own work, Do Not Lean
Sofia Zu'bi and Ben Morgan-Cleveland by Andrew Shears' work
Jared Diaz in front of Ida Stein's Cyboromantic and Matthew Clark's You Do/You Don't
Pratt President's Office Senior Drawing/Painting Show, April 27th 2017
Pratt Institue President Thomas F Schutte has elected to host a curated senior painting show in his office, on the Pratt Brooklyn Campus in Main Hall, room 101A. Ben Morgan-Cleveland of Brooklyn's Real Fine Art, former Pratt BFA, was selected to curate a selection of eight artists out of the thirty-five artists in the senior drawing and painting studios, of which I was selected to be one of eight!
Opening reception will be 4:30 till 6:30 in the presidents office (101A Main Hall on the Pratt Brooklyn Campus)
Artists selected include:
Sungwon Hong
Emily Morrison
Mira Park
Xinan Ran
Andrew Shears
Ida Stein
Taylor Stewart
Sofia Zubi