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BY CHRIS GARGAN
WHETHER WE’RE TALKING SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AUTHORS, MUSICIANS, OR ANY OTHER CREATIVE, DECADE AFTER DECADE, THE MIDWEST PRODUCES SOME OF THE MOST PROFOUND ARTISTS IN THE WORLD. IN RECOGNITION, THIS YEAR WE’RE ZOOMING OUT FROM WISCONSIN TO CELEBRATE CERAMICISTS IN OUR NEIGHBORING STATES. NEXT STOP: INDIANA.
Ted Neal
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Every good artist has at least two traits in common with his or her peers regardless of their chosen media: they provide the viewer with an entry point to their work and their thinking, and they provide a reason to linger once entrance is achieved. Memory, narrative, familiar iconography, and emotional tension are all devices that
artists will utilize to attract the attention and emotional interaction required of the viewer to successfully complete the creative act. Ted Neal creates a poetic resonance by evoking a memory of place and occurrence without devolving to something maudlin, or sentimental. His work is as much a celebration of industrial presence and passing as it is
