tripelgänger is ceramics in three versions after architectural thumbnail sketches by François Blanciak. A parallel is drawn from Blanciak’s book, Siteless, as ceramics flows through contexts of painting, sculpture, & architecture. Shadowing shows ceramics’ ambivalent relationship with these three, oscillating between distinction & indeterminacy. Meanwhile ceramics’ durability in material & history provides the necessary friction.
burnished micaceous earthenware, stoneware, wood-fired stoneware with slip, 2013-2014
Turnstile is one of several series of tiles whose linear, planar, or volumetric form emerges or extends from the wall. Turnstile turns perpendicular to the wall, peeled up to reveal a stratum of paper & a space between, emphasizing their thinness & the appearance of one as the shadow of the other. The Bagsvaerd Kirke by Jørn Utzon in Copenhagen, Denmark is the principal inspiration, as well as tileworks by Babs Haanen & Wayne Higby particularly the palette of blue & white.
bone china, paper, wire, 2014
2016, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX