Recent Works by Andrea Clark and CAVE Object

On display April 21 - June 2, 2023 in the Creel-Harison Community Gallery on the 3rd floor of Ware's Folly (506 Telfair Street). Opening reception is April 21, from 5-7pm. Free to the Public.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

My pieces grow out of constant experimentation with ceramics and straddle sculpture and image. I treat liquid clay like paint, rocky bits of fired clay become pointillist dots, and thin sheets of porcelain act like paper. These porcelain-built images oscillate between 2D and 3D, framed by stoneware structures that often support the thin porcelain through the firing. 

Lately I’m conflating dream imagery with aspects of the Southern landscape where I was raised and currently live. I’m interested in the mutability of landscape and its ability to hide and reveal histories. 

My homeware line CAVE Object was born out of a desire to live with and use the content of the artworks. For example, the lamps and containers are mostly extrusions of flat shapes found in the porcelain images. I like to think that the pieces in CAVE Object subtly and sweetly disrupt their surroundings.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Andrea Clark is an artist living in rural southeast Georgia.  Her work has been exhibited most recently at Latent Space in Chicago, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, and Eastside International in LA. She was the recipient of a 2022 Career Advancement Fellowship from the Center for Craft and has attended residencies at Township 10, Greenwich House Pottery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and the European Ceramic Work Center. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies. 

IMAGE:  Andrea Clark, Shug, 2022, stoneware with porcelain painting, 17 x 19 x 4 inches, image courtesy the artist