BFA: PAINTING KCAI

PIDGIN 2024

FRANKLIN PARRASCH 2004

ALDRICH MUSEUM 2001

BIO

The artist is a New York-based ceramic sculptor who earned her BFA in painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, N.Y. Hailed as an “emerging New England artist” (she grew up in tiny Moscow, Vermont) her sculptures have appeared in publications such as Wallpaper, House and Garden, Critical Ceramics and Ceramics Monthly. A co-owner of Enids, she had a pivotal role in the gentrification of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She lives with her two teenagers in Ridgewood, Queens.

Statement

‘My work begins with a human movement that has caught my eye during the day—a gesture or stumble or maneuver—and that has produced an emotional or psychological resonance. I want to remember these moments, or try to resolve them. The sculptures grow out of necessary opposites: as still signs of movement they are complete but elastic, abstracted but figured, pleasant but strange. From day to day, depending on what a viewer brings to it, the same movement may shift—from languid to apprehensive to purposeful to alert. The sculptures are open objects, bypassing language to live in a more instinctive form of relation.’

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