Statement

Chad Gunderson fuses commercial design with geology to create amalgamations that reflect on our modern Anthropocene. Injecting shiny products and alluring color schemes into organic forms, his work contorts and expands the forms of ceramics. Merging the arbitrary shapes of wind-blown rocks with plastic veneers and saturated pigments, Gunderson creates fabricated, fetishized, and engineered designer relics. His sculptures examine the liminality between objects from nature and human-made products in the current space age we live in today, extracting the ambiguous and elusive definition of the term “natural”.

Bio

Chad Gunderson grew up in Minnesota and aspires to be a world traveller, but misses canoeing the waters of his home state. He received his MFA from Arizona State University, Tempe (2011) and completed his BFA at Minnesota State University, Mankato (2007). Gunderson’s work is in the collection of Richard and Alita Rogers, has been featured multiple times in Ceramics Monthly, was reviewed by The Creators Project, and published in “Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process.” He also organized and presented an NCECA panel discussion about the experimental nature of ceramics. Despite his Masters' degree, he owns a 96 ct. set of Crayola Crayons and still plays with Legos. Chad also awaits the day that commercial space flight is affordable.

He likes rocks.