VISUAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dustin Yager
Rimware, Porcelain and gold luster, 2009.
Dustin is a reluctant potter and student of visual culture. His work and research is concerned with material culture, consumption, representation, design/art/craft, function, DANGER, cathection, attachment, sex, taste, class, historicism, technology, furniture, gay shit, embarrassment, expectations, “supposed to”, obligations, decisions, closets, secrets, studio pottery, stupid ideas, Jonathan Adler, lines, depictions, maps, accidents, intention, love, romance, J-names, economics, anthropology, gear, place, experience, glamour, fucking, flirtations, LIES, you, inside jokes, hardware, homophobia, agency, (anti-)aesthetics, architectures, decoration, Google, color, measurement, distances, perspective, classics, canons, surveys, demographics, graphics, icons, health, frailty, things that augment other things, layers, the supplement, hesitancy, technology, fashion, physics, balance, geology, love, naïveté, habitus, lifestyles, manipulation, neutrality, care, instructions, rules, movement, languages, status, isolation, efficiency, oil, energy, body work, skill, crafts, style, exoticism, MONEY, dreams, histories, authorship, authenticity, the aura, hobbyists, distribution, scale, parallel lines, the production of culture, TIME and SPACE, shape, modernism, Eva Zeisel, propriety, love, words, his family, fecundity, crises, vegetation, comfort, perception, collaboration, the restaurant industry, multiples, binaries, theory, masturbation, confinement, boundaries, visual literacy, abbreviations, txting, boredom, hooking up, mistakes, conspicuous consumption, fruit, (dis)order, knowledge, matrices, systems, patterns, anxiety, POWER, books, archives, feeling your muscles tighten when you’re around very fragile or valuable things if you’re unaccustomed to being around such things, libraries, memories, impressing people, shopping, apprehension, love, judgment, clothes, drag, collections, conventions of display, brand names, clutter, MAXIMALISM, access, wants and needs, compulsion, perfection, symbolism, tradition, light, atoms, fear, and social networking sites such as facebook and twitter. He is originally from Wyoming.
Killer Pots Series, Porcelain and Gold Luster, 2010.