*new work*

Publications and News:

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)

Reader Biweekly Magazine #21, 2009, China


The Best American Ceramic Art
, 12th Beijing International Art Expo, Chinese Ceramic Art Council USA, catalog (p.13)



 


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


September 17 - October 16, 2010
reception: Saturday, September 18, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
A New Decade of Clay: 2010
Village at Northstar at Tahoe Resort, (Incline Village, NV)

September 30 - October 30, 2010
reception: Thursday, September 30, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Red Heat: Contemporary Work in Clay, (Tulsa, OK)

October 23 to November 21
Reception:Saturday, October 30, 3:00-5:00 pm
Go Figure! National Juried Figurative Exhibit,
Santa Cruz Art League, (Santa Cruz, CA)

January 7 - March 13, 2011
ACGA@MAH
The Museum of Art & History, (Santa Cruz, CA)