“Pleasure Ground”
Ron Geibel
The Projecto Gallery
Pleasure Ground by Ron Geibel features 2 and 3D works in porcelain from the artist’s series Lick, Semipublic, Transition Point, and Interested Parties.
On view during the West weekends of the Austin Studio Tour (November 4, 5, 11, and 12) 12-6pm, and by appointment.
To request an appointment email Coka Treviño
Ron Geibel’s artwork and research address the complex landscape among intimacy, pleasure, and authority as it concerns the opaque relationship between public and private desires that constitute queer identity. Geibel received a BFA from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and his MFA from the University of Montana. Geibel exhibits both nationally and internationally, and his work is featured in Create Magazine, ArtMaze Magazine, Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics Art and Perception, and Artist Magazine, published in Taiwan City, Taiwan. In addition, Geibel is a recipient of a 2019 Lighton International Artists Exchange Grant. The grant helped to support his three-month artist residency at the European Ceramic Workcentre in The Netherlands. There, his research focused on place and how that affects the queer lived experience. Other residencies include the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York; The Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York; and the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Geibel is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX.
“My artwork and research address the complex landscape among intimacy, pleasure, and authority as it concerns the opaque relationship between public and private desires that constitute queer identity.
Through a cross section of queer theory and materiality, I use highly crafted, inconspicuous objects to question one's awareness of self and of others. Candy-coated surfaces and picture-perfect facades toy with the notion that temptation and desire permit one to be drawn to what they do not even realize are present.
Like the "straight-acting," queer identifying individual who inconspicuously navigates the public, I use multiples in neatly packed rows and precariously stacked piles to act as camouflage, disguising the suggestive nature of the forms.
From coy and erotic to playful and political, I articulate queer positions and visibility through hand-crafted,intimately scaled works that address sexuality, gender, and identity.”
