Paintings

Bankemper’s new ceramic work utilizes high fired handmade porcelain ‘buttons’ attached to canvases, incorporating such so called prosaic skills as sewing while also addressing the issue of how things get held together.

Light Sleeping, 2017

84 x 64 inches

Stratum Basale, 2017

60 x 50 inches

Stratum Germinativum, 2017

60 x 50 inches

Yellow Piercing, 2016

84 x 64 inches

Imbibition, 2015-2016

59 x 50 inches

Imbibition, 2015-2016

Detail

Black and Blue, 2015

72 x 64 inches

Number Study, 2015

14 x 14 inches

Is, 2014

84 x 64 inches

Nesting Box, 2014

34 x 30 inches

Nesting Box, 2014

Detail

Plucked Daisy, 2014

84 x 60 inches

Self Portrait, 2015

84 x 64 inches

Composition in Blue and Yellow, 2014

14 x 11 inches

Composition in Black, 2015

14 x 11 inches

Composition in Pink, 2015

14 x 11 inches

Button Sampler, 2014

14 x 12 inches