Richard Pankratz

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Biography:

Richard Pankratz grew up in rural Kansas received his degree in art and education at the Kansas City Art Institute. He used his teaching degree for eleven years before choosing to become a producing artist in the medium of ceramics. This base has evolved to include wood and metal with vessels and figurative sculptures. His commercial studio is located in Monument Colorado.

Statement:

I have discovered that the mood of the artist is communicated in physicality during production: that the qualities of the energy of creation are transmitted and frozen into the inanimate material and thus can be read by the viewer long after the artist has finished the work.