Dominic Falcione

Ohio sculptor Falcione came to his practice through conceptualism, and though his works have settled into functional objectivity —focused on producing art for the interior — they hold a vestige that is exchanged in the language and understanding of the material. The ‘Bud Vase’ naturally assumes a plantlike form and resolve, the surface of the porcelain gently roughened from a process in which the vessel is dipped in hot beeswax, the depth of texture heightened through a selection of delicate stain applications in which the colour appears to have alchemically fused with the clay rather than simply sitting on top.

Ohio sculptor Falcione came to his practice through conceptualism, and though his works have settled into functional objectivity —focused on producing art for the interior — they hold a vestige that is exchanged in the language and understanding of the material. The ‘Bud Vase’ naturally assumes a plantlike form and resolve, the surface of the porcelain gently roughened from a process in which the vessel is dipped in hot beeswax, the depth of texture heightened through a selection of delicate stain applications in which the colour appears to have alchemically fused with the clay rather than simply sitting on top.