Trained as an architect and artist, Brian Peters has melded both worlds into a distinctive career. His medium is 3D-printed ceramics and the interplay of light and shadow.
Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, his work explores patterns, textures, and forms that show evidence of both the artist’s hand and the marks of the tools used. Peters is not interested in the perfection of machine made objects, but rather the art of integrating digital coding, custom-built technology, contemporary aesthetics, and natural clay. Once he develops a pattern and form that inspires you, he translates his two-dimensional sketches and drawings into digitally modeled 3D geometries that will be materialized in space. His parametric design process allows you to explore and make prototypes on 3D printers ceramic he built.
Brian Peters spend hours in my studio experimenting with clay bodies, scales, geometries, connections, and glazes. Each final piece is the result of countless prototypes. Finally, the pieces are refined by hand once it leaves the printer, dried for several days, and kiln-fired. Once bisqued, they are removed from the kiln, glazed by hand through traditional artisanal methods (if applicable), and then kiln-fired once again. All that means that craftsmanship and artistry remain an integral part of each piece. They are not machine made, they are digitally crafted.
