Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Student show at the Witt Gallery, in California State University Sacramento






Ceramics student Grace Tuthill shows her work in the Witt gallery here in Sac State. She has created very organic forms ranging in size. The forms seem to maintain a very clean and curvy shape. She manages to push her medium to its limits as ceramics can be very tricky to work with at times. In some of her larger works, we can see this as all it takes is a small understanding of ceramics to be impressed by how these intricate shapes have been created.
Although most of these shapes maintain a very organic almost microbial or cellular feel to them, others may be reminded of corals and the abstract shape of some marine life. Her forms connect through their shape but some of them vary drastically in their texture. As she explores different firing methods, her forms take on dramatically different colors and textures. Some of which include sea shells engraved or rather fused onto the clay body. I find this to be one of the more successful shows of the year this far. The artist took into consideration everything from the space around her to the shape of the gallery and managed to fill the space with an excellent body of work. As well as creating interactive work by allowing visitors to grab, feel and place the smaller pieces in the sand that was laid out for them. On top of all that even the food was yummy and healthy, and it was made to look like the artist's work.


2 comments:

  1. This sounds like it was a very fun exhibition to attend! The artist's works look very interesting. I like how they are made to resemble coral forms, and how she put them in sand to further establish a marine connection. I have taken a couple ceramics classes before and it is not my strongest area, so I really appreciate the organic and complex forms that the artist created. On top of that, it was a great idea to make the installation interactive so that the audience could really see the works up close and get an see how the different techniques she used created unique forms. This is a great post, and I think you described the exhibition and highlighted the artist's skill very well.

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  2. Thanks, it was a fun show! definitely looking forward to seeing what she does next! and yes the interactive aspect of it was a must.

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