Repetition greets many at USU’s Chase Fine Arts Center on Thursday night

By: Kristen Steiner

Observers, admirers, family and friends walked in to the white walled gallery at Utah State University’s Chase Fine Arts Center Thursday night to celebrate and admire the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibit being given by graduate student Shasta Krueger called “Repeated Impressions.”

Krueger's work

Krueger’s exhibit, entirely ceramic based, consisted of a variety of sculpted boxes, pots and wall installations. The collection, cohesive in the fact that similar shapes and figures were repeated throughout the assemblage, displayed each piece on a podium accompanied with a second or third piece that mirrored the design of the original. Even the overall design layout of the wall installations was found in the shapes of the boxes and pots.

“I was playing off the ideas of repetition and multiples,” Krueger said as she stood in the middle of the gallery floor with a look of joyful satisfaction on her face as she greeted those visiting the exhibit. “It came from everyday things like the pattern of roof tiles and bricks.”

Even the use of the continual pattern from the finger imprints on the artwork is used to represent repetition, Krueger said.

After working at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, Krueger moved to Cache Valley to start her graduate work at USU. Krueger, originally from Seattle, works mainly with clay, but has an interest in wood firing as well.

Krueger working on her designs

“She really enjoyed printmaking while she was growing up,” Allison Krueger, mother of Shasta Krueger said, “but it was ceramics that she held to.”

Now that the show has ended, pieces that were sold will go to their rightful owners and the remaining pieces will need to find a place to be shown and displayed, Krueger said.

More information on Krueger and her work can be found at https://campus.digication.com/shastakrueger/Wilkommen