Ben Hirschkoff

With a history of hand building ceramic sculpture, Ben Hirschkoff’s practice brings a sense of play and exploration to an ever-evolving variety of media and materials.  Tendencies in his work include the deconstruction and reassembling of recognizable forms and the celebration of incidental artifact.  Blending subject and object, portrait with landscape, 2D and 3D, animate and inanimate Hirschkoff’s work encourages us to consider aspects of our everyday perspective that we may be taking for granted.

Ben Hirschkoff began his art career after developing a series of anthropomorphic mixed media ceramic sculpture while attaining his bachelors degree from the redwood cloister that is Humboldt State University.  Armed with an artist statement that read like a revisoning of the theory of evolution as a struggle against the force of gravity, Ben moved to the city of San Francisco.  While developing and exhibiting his art, Ben also volunteered as a ceramics tech at the City College of San Francisco and taught ceramics with homeless teens.  In 2004 Ben relocated to Seattle to attend the University of Washington where he studied under Doug Jeck, Akio Takamori, and Jamie Walker, and met several visting artists.  Ben joined Soil Artist Run Gallery in 2006.  His work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.

Website / benhirschkoff.com