Topher Gent

Topher Gent is an artist and designer from Rhode Island who has lived in Providence since 2008. He was a Ceramics Resident at The Steel Yard in 2020. His public work includes a 2014 street bench made with AS220 Youth and a sculpture commissioned for the I-195 land in Providence. In his Steel Yard interview, he described a current installation of vases, each sized to equal his body weight in clay. He cites architecture and design figures such as Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles and Ray Eames as influences.