Alex Kouty is an artist and ceramicist living in Brooklyn, New York, with a background in fashion and product design informed by studies in philosophy, sociology, and cultural theory.

Alex’s current work with ceramics involves using unconventional tools and implements, mostly hand-made or from the construction trade, in a vigorous and extractive process of removing clay from a large, initially partially formed, angular mass.

By slicing, gouging, scooping, chipping, tearing, and related acts of negation, a final form is revealed. Alluding to the subtractive, reductive, degradative, and corrosive acts of environmental weathering and the con(des)tructive tendencies of man.

Custom glazes and base stain are mixed, applied with a brush or spray, and distressed by rubbing and thinning with water.

Finally, high-fired, fingers crossed.