Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.
Rooted in the material properties and processes of clay, Kathy Kranias hand builds her sculptures to explore movement, the body and gesture. Often drawing on her background in contemporary dance, she employs the expressive power of human gesture in allegorical works. Reinterpreting the vessel form in relation to the long history of clay vessels and statuary that reference the female body, Kranias retells narratives of women in Greek myth to centre the subject of female agency. The Canada Council for the Arts awarded Kranias an Arts Abroad Grant in 2020 and her sculptures were exhibited in A New Light: Canadian Women Artists at the Embassy of Canada Art Gallery, Washington D.C. In 2019, Global Affairs Canada purchased 5 of her new works for the international AWBZ Visual Arts Collection. Recently she was invited to include her career portfolio in the venerable Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art Canadian Art Database. Kranias’ solo exhibitions include Archetypes in Clay: Recent Work at the David Kaye Gallery and Becoming the Persephone at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. She earned her B.F.A. cum laude in Studio Art at Concordia University and M.A. cum laude in Art History at York University.
Surge
Coil built raku sculpture clay; 55 cm x 56 cm x 46 cm; 2021; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Surge
Coil built raku sculpture clay; 55 cm x 56 cm x 46 cm; 2021; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
I am a Tree (Daphne)
Hand built porcelaineous stoneware; 60 cm x 37 cm x 26 cm; 2020; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
I am a Tree (Daphne)
Hand built porcelaineous stoneware; 60 cm x 37 cm x 26 cm; 2020; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Flight
Hand built porcelaineous stoneware; 51 cm x 43 cm x 20 cm; 2019; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Flight (Detail)
Hand built porcelaineous stoneware; 51 cm x 43 cm x 20 cm; 2019; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Gestation
Hand built porcelaineous stoneware; 46 cm x 15 cm x 18 cm; 2019; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Growing Wings
Hand built porcelaineous stoneware; 46 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm; 2018; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Invisibility Cloak 1
Hand press molded and assembled raku sculpture clay, Screen printed and painted engobes, Glazes
56 cm x 28 cm x 28 cm each; 2018; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Invisibility Cloaks (Detail, Top view)
Hand press molded and assembled raku sculpture clay, Screen printed and painted engobes, Glazes
56 cm x 28 cm x 28 cm each; 2018; Image Credit: Marina Dempster
Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.