Q & A with Neil Tetkowski
by Shuhei Yamatani, Gallery Director of HPGRP Gallery, New York
Neil, please tell me, where do you get inspiration?
My favorite museum in New York is the Metropolitan. It is so close to where I live that I can walk there when I need a lift. The genius and potential of humankind is celebrated in this house of treasures. At the Met, curators still hold traditional values of excellence and scholarship. I see a lot of clay there from all over the world, and I'm not confronted by "fun house art" and video installations. Whenever I leave the Met I feel like I've been to a yoga class, centered and renewed. Some people feel like that when they do their religion. I create my own mythos through my art. It is the prism that defines my world.
Orange Blades, 24 x 21 x 2 in. (61 x 53 x 5 cm), 2008, porcelain