Alex Kachenko
Director of Education
Alex is a self-taught, professional potter living and making work in Philadelphia. He has been working as an artist since 2013. He has displayed his work at many shows in Philadelphia and New Jersey. In his work, he uses texture, glazes, and raw clay bodies to create surfaces reminiscent of objects in the natural world or subjected to its forces. He draws inspiration from the geological processes of oxidation, convection, stratification, and faulting. He uses the movement of clay to create forms that feel as though they grew, having a story rather than a moment of creation. Varying the color of clay allows me to show the movement of clay through a chaotic process, creating levels of randomness that can be varied and pushed in certain directions, but never completely controlled. It’s about guiding the movement and direction of the greater form without full knowledge of the pattern in the details.