This is some recent work from a collaborative exhibition titled Lines Encircling the Sun, with @brynnhigginsstirrup . Lots of materials, including soil, glazed ceramic, video, projection, found rocks, rice paper, ink, and aluminum. Thanks to @goldmark_cultural_center for the opportunity to exhibit!
This piece, titled An Impossible End, was made from taking a mold of a sculpture in my studio that was wrapped in plastic and left unfinished. You can see it at the 2024 NCECA conference as part of The Clay Studio exhibition 50 Years of Clay, Resident Alumni at Common House, 303 W. Broad Street, Richmond, VA. The opening reception is Thursday, March 21st, 7-9 p.m.
This piece was made by taking a wax positive of a relief sculpture I made. I softened the wax in the kiln, and then I made a mold of that wax to make this clay version. Process shot in picture 3
This work titled Companion (Fig Branch) is included in the exhibition Mapping Desire at River House Arts in Toledo Ohio.
Adam and Eve, an etching by Albrecht Durer, 1504 was the scaffold for creating this work. Originally a plaster mold for a relief sculpture I was making, the plaster object held all of the notions of construction and its relation to narrative and landscape that I hoped for in the finished piece. I created clay versions of the plaster mold, doubling them, the new clay versions became figurative stand-ins.
This work titled Sunrise/Sunset was from a solo exhibition at Midwestern State University this past summer. The work depicts sculptural figurative fragments with a projection documenting the change of color as light shifts in the sky with the movement of the sun.
Details of in progress work. I have been making these fractured compositions and flattening them through a press molding process. This is wet clay with a lot of sand.
