*new work*

Publications and News:

NiCHE Award 2011 Winner

500 Raku:
Bold Explorations of a Dynamic Ceramics Technique (500 Series), 2011

 

Ceramics Monthly, September 2010 (Exhibitions, 18th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, p.24)

Clay Times July/August 2009 (NCECA Clay Biennial & Regional Student Juried Exhibition, p.16)

 


In my work I combine an abstract curvilinear sculptural form with surreal narrative painting in order to create an illusion of dynamically changing reality. The illusion of a three-dimensional world formed by realistically rendered painting intermingles with the three-dimensionality of the object.

I build with clay and paint with underglazes. I create an impression of interchangeability between flat image and three-dimensional form.

In my sculptures I am trying to convey an internal world of a person, as if it is contained inside a closed form, or like a figure that undergoes an inversion on a complex plane. I am looking for a three-dimensional space that can hold an external world. A world remembered or imagined from the past, a world that is forced by the inversion to live inside a ceramic sculpture, a world that smoothly transitions from one dimensionality to the other, a world of a dream with a broken and twisted perspective.


Shows - Galleries - Exhibitions


M.T. Burton Gallery, (Surf City, NJ)