Brock DeBoer
Brock DeBoer’s artistic process as a ceramic sculptor utilizes porcelain, historical motifs, and surface treatments to re-contextualize detritus, outdated objects, and objects of popular culture.
For DeBoer, the source of the objects he recreates come from childhood and popular culture such as sneakers, Nintendo, and payphones. Many are highly nostalgic to his generation and beyond touching on many facets of everyday life. DeBoer sees these collections and still lifes as self-portraits and tangible memories of another time and place.
DeBoer draws influence from his midwestern upbringing combined with the ever-changing and vastly diverse landscape of Los Angeles. Using his extensive knowledge of ceramic materials and processes, DeBoer brings his sculptures a new life becoming heirlooms of the 21st century. With the use of classical blue and white motifs of cobalt patterns with luscious gold accents, DeBoer’s casts become suspended somewhere in the past and present. He allows the viewer to become lost in memory, as well as the extreme craft and finishes of his precise reproductions.
Brock DeBoer was born in South Dakota in 1985 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, CA.
