| Tim Mather | ||
| Birth Date: 1943 |
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| Tim Mather was born in 1943 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He studied at Ohio University where he earned his BFA and his MFA. From 1976 until 1993 Mather was self-employed as an artist and was a visiting artist in a number of institutions such as: Arrowmont School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts and Cleveland Institute of Art.
Mather works in porcelain and among people who work with clay, porcelain has reigned as the elite ceramic body since the last quarter of the 19th century. Past his functional ware, which the Museum owns, Mather explorations take us into a strange unknown world with his “Wigfy” series (Wigfy is an acronym for “Was it good for you?”) This is a world of slip cast of porcelain parts which he later assembles. He makes his molds from found objects, plumbing parts, household items, toys, miscellaneous hardware and cast-off junk. Mather keeps the slip casts damp until he is ready to assemble them. When he feels he has a variety of parts - Mather begins to put them together, usually in utterly unlikely combinations – often coming up with a surreal (real or unreal) image.
Mather states: “I am seeking to stretch the imagination and to provoke a reconsideration of the extended possibilities of meaning and metaphor in the “stuff” that surrounds us on a daily basis."
Throughout the years Mather has collaborated on numerous works with George Whitten and Anne McCormick.
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