Her brightly
glazed ceramic objects and body parts stand in the legacy of Claes Oldenburg's papier - mâché food sculptures of the 1960s — stacked cheese burgers, cascading ice cream sundaes.
Not exact matches
This came to light in «All at Once,» the artist's first survey exhibition, a spacious and informative presentation of more than 150
objects, dating from 1993 to the present, in cast paper and plaster, blown glass, and
glazed ceramic.
Deformed, as if cringing in protest against being discarded, and rendered in
glazed ceramic, the
objects form a lyrical visual commentary on the rapid obsolescence of household items that are often invested with meaningful memories.
Their functional and decorative
ceramic objects are all handmade, and considerable attention is given to the individual stages of production: the handling of the clay, and the choice of form, colour palette and
glazing.
Painstakingly crafted and
glazed by hand, her
ceramic work is modeled after ritual
objects, columns, funereal monuments, and fossilized creatures, while simultaneously deconstructing, and rebuilding these models into new hybrid forms.
Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Every Man Has his Tastes, 2013 - 2014, chair and ottoman,
glazed ceramic,
ceramic objects, paint.
Counts further conveys the symbolic depth of
objects with her two most figurative sculptures in the exhibition, Moment A, a massive candle dripping with satisfying layers of blue, white, gray, and silver
glazes, and Moment B, a colorful vase full of large
ceramic roses.
Mirror,
glazed ceramic, wire, found
objects, plaster, paper maché, spray painted aluminum foil and lights.
Sculpture is also defined as process, as
objects become the byproducts of lived experience, from Sterling Ruby's roughly formed
ceramic basins, heavy with
glaze, and Shio Kusaka's delicate stoneware; to Davide Balula's Mimed Sculpture (2016), which describes iconic sculptures without any materials at all.
His most recent sculpture often takes as a point of departure household
objects that he models in simple materials, including cardboard, then casts in bronze and patinates with surfaces that recall
ceramic glazes.
Using charred wood, ash, molten glass, found
objects, and black -
glazed ceramics, Ruhwald meticulously composes an immersive, richly sensorial experience that is at once dramatic, nostalgic, and uncanny.