Published in Ceramics Art + Perception, January 2016
"Immediately upon entering the main gallery space at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, the seven impossibly large, thrown, wall-mounted altered discs fashioned by the hand of American ceramics artist, Neil Tetkowski, signal a conviction of character evocative of the great Abstract Expressionists. One cannot help but conjure the greats – Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning. Tetkowski makes art in an effort to provoke society to change, or to move us out of complacency about our place within the world and our hand in shaping its destiny. In some ways the nails, spikes, cell phones and computer fragments that riddle many of the iconicsized pieces personify the sculptures, shifting them into the realm of the corporeal... "
