Kento Siasho (American), Glass and Steel Sculpture

Contemporary, shaped and textured steel wrapping around bulbous frosted glass form, hollow to inside, unsigned. Proceeds to benefit the general Penland Scholarship.

Approximately 11 x 15 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.

Being sold to benefit Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina

Penland’s scholarship program exists to make their workshops accessible to those who are not able to participate without financial assistance and to create educational opportunities for people who have been underrepresented at Penland and in the craft world. Proceeds from this auction will help fund existing scholarships, with some proceeds designated towards specific scholarships as noted in the listings.

Kento Saisho is an artist and metalworker currently based in Los Angeles, CA. He makes vigorously textured and tactile sculptural objects, vessels, and contemporary artifacts in steel that utilize and push the material’s potential for transformation. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016, where he was a Windgate-Lamar Fellowship recipient from the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. He then went on to complete the Core Fellowship at the Penland School of Craft from 2018 – 2020.

“Working with steel, I create objects, vessels, and contemporary artifacts. My practice harnesses and pushes steel’s limitless capacity for transformation...My work often references objects from antiquity: primal objects and vessels from the past – fragments that we project meaning onto. Through interrogating the potential for new expressions in metal, I want to expand the language of the material and expand the field for the contemporary vessel in steel.”

Good estate condition.