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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Celene Hawkins
Visual Artist, Sculptor StudioDendriteOwnerCincinnati Ohio United States Website: Celene Hawkins
Bio
Hawkins is a visual artist based in Cincinnati, OH. She creates public and private commission works as well as site furnishings and functional art. Her artistic practice covers a range of disciplines including sculpture, photo-based works, and installation art.
Her work is in a range of public, private, and corporate collections. She periodically curates exhibits and has served in several faculty positions at area universities. She has a design and fabrication studio where she creates personal work and also does fabrication for clients and other artists. She is also a partner in Hawkins & Hawkins Custom, a parallel business.
Hawkins has been reviewed in a range of publications, including ArtPapers, Landscape Architecture, and Sculpture Magazine. She has been awarded grants from the Summerfair Foundation and an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
Artist Statement
Celene’s work is usually, regardless of material, created by rendering many elements and later assembling them into larger structures. This construction method, which involves repeated motifs at various scales, taps into one of her other fascinations: pattern, particularly as it constitutes a distillation of Nature by its translation into ornamental forms. Referencing Nature in wallpapers, textiles and other decorative motifs, she seeks a reconnection with the natural world. Her work is intended to engage via its confectionary quality, yet reveal subtle elements of discontinuity and entropy. Fragmentation, changes of state, pattern decay, re-growth, and accretion all define her language of making.