Elise Kleinbauer

Artist's Statement: I created "The Jester" as a challenge to myself to create a life-sized, vaguely human puppet. I was inspired by the Bread and Puppet Theater, especially with how they contrast flowing costumes with more solid heads on their puppets. 

Elise Kleinbauer is a senior at Canton High School and plans on attending a college for arts in the fall. Her artistic practice mainly includes painting and sculpture that lean towards surrealism. Elise's art is driven by her curiosity of the world we know and what might lie beyond our knowledge, and her goal in creating is to connect with the viewer and make them question what counts as reality.