Wade Tullier currently on view. Here on this glorious Saturday from Noon-4 PM. Come visit. 🦉🩸🗡️🌱
Wade Tullier
Seed Pouch on Stump with Owl, Knife, and Drop, 2026
ceramic and glaze
30 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 18 in.
Primary is proud to present Sky, Sea, Fruit, Hand, Seed, a selection of new ceramic sculptures by Wade Tullier. This examines the monument not as a site of power, but as a structure for care, nourishment, and relation.
Monuments have historically been built to honor authority, conquest, and control. Here, Tullier redirects that scale toward fruit—forms defined by sustenance and the quiet centrality of growth. Enlarged beyond the human body and arranged in vertical compositions, these elements take on an architectural presence, shifting the language of monumentality toward something essential and life-giving.
At the center of the exhibition, a blue-and-white hand holds a vertical stack of fruit. The gesture is one of offering rather than possession. Its glazed surface, evoking sky and sea, situates the work within an atmospheric register, where scale and material transform an intimate act into something expansive and destabilizing. The viewer encounters not dominance, but a condition of being held—one that does not require equivalence.
Throughout the exhibition, a recurring set of forms—fruit, owls, tears, knives, flame—operates within a shifting system of meaning. These elements resist fixed symbolism; instead, their significance emerges through proximity and arrangement. A knife beside a pear, a tear near a face—each configuration recalibrates the emotional and spatial logic of the work. Meaning is produced not through singular objects, but in the relationships between them.
Tullier’s sculptures emphasize compression, balance, and dependence. Forms stack, lean, and touch, creating moments of tension and pause. Sweetness is not treated as fragile, but as fundamental. In this context, the monument does not elevate power—it gives scale to what has always sustained life.
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