Midwestern
artist Eric Jensen produces handbuilt porcelain dinnerware.
His work has a delicate elegance which belies its durability.
Jensen creates both painterly display pieces and functional serving pieces and dinnerware. Always handbuilt, his porcelain dinnerware and stoneware wall pieces and vases are unlike any other potters that we know of. Jensen received his M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy. His work is nationally collected and exhibited.
Dinnerware
is available in multiple color variations and may be combined with teapots, pitcher,
platters, serving bowls and cream & sugar sets. It's fun to layer round vs square shapes. Iowa Artisans Gallery manager Astrid Bennett echoes various customers when she says that her Eric Jensen mugs are her favorite way to start the day -with tea or coffee. Dinnerware is dishwasher safe.
"(Eric
Jensen's) career has paralleled that of a generation of craft
artists who have burrowed into a life outside of the usual routes
in either the art world or ordinary American culture. Since much of the American craft world is decentralized, these
artists almost always live in what are considered the 'regions'
or in rural areas, and their art is supported by a public hungry
for the every-day, handmade object.
Jensen's
aesthetic depends on the functional aspect of his work. These
handmade production items -- abstract, muted, slip-decorated,
squarish, and not at all traditional -- epitomize Jensen's interest
in placing his work in everyday life." Polly
Ulrich - The New Art Examiner, April
1996
stoneware vases and platter at the Gallery
