Revolutions examines the collision between personal agency and cultural expectation through the intertwined languages of painting and sculpture. The series takes the ceramic vessel - an object historically associated with domesticity, containment, and the body - and transforms it into a three-dimensional canvas for narratives of women negotiating roles imposed upon them.
Ceramic forms undulate and twist beneath densely layered imagery of women who appear by turns compliant, defiant, vulnerable, and powerful. Sexuality, motherhood, desire, and mortality become entangled with expectations about femininity and social behavior. The vessels suggest bodies shaped by forces both internal and external: containing, carrying, resisting, and transforming what has been placed upon them.
The painted surfaces draw from Soviet propaganda, ancient Greek vase painting, Japanese ukiyo-e, comics, and wordless graphic narratives, creating a visual language in which historical and contemporary images collide. Rotating pedestals set the sculptures in motion, turning the figures into a whirling procession of conflicting identities and experiences.
The title Revolutions refers to both political and personal transformation - the cycles through which cultural expectations are inherited, performed, resisted, and rewritten. The vessel becomes simultaneously body, container, and stage: a place where the intimate and political meet.
Revolutions has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including:
Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, Texas — solo exhibition
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts — solo exhibition
Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
International Ceramic Competition, Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, Alcora, Spain
Epperson National Clay Competition, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, California — First Place
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, Texas
GOCA, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Museum Acquisitions
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Museu de Ceràmica de l’Alcora, Alcora, Spain
