Artist Statement | Press Release
I am an artist working in porcelain out of my home studios in Woodbury, CT and Alexandria, VA. My pieces are handbuilt and fired at cone 10. I choose to work in porcelain for its fine texture and silkiness, its hardness when fired, and its delicacy. I use a clear glaze, preferring pattern and detail to come from the porcelain itself. A great deal of my work is about dress. What we wear communicates complex data about race, gender, age, aspirations, social class and individual expression, and where and when we are living. The way we dress communicates hard times and lavish times, luxury and poverty, practicality and frivolity, times of war and times of peace. In installations, porcelain dresses suggest communities. Despite the absence of the body, the dresses become substitutes for their invisible wearers, conveying the body’s dimensionality and expressiveness. I am also interested in the connections between clothing and architecture, in terms of shelter, protection, communication, and identity. |
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