The relationship begins:
Clay is mined from the earth is shaped by the hands of the artists. The clay starts soft and wet and can take any shape, limitless in form. Just like the clay, artists are limitless in form and shape and surface. The biography of the artist is mined the memories and experiences they have. Although the artists are made from the same material , water, blood, experiences, relationships and culture, they develop their own form and through choices, they create their own vessels to carry into the world.
Connected by lines:
Artists Molly Bishop, Ashley Bevington, Donna Flannery, Raven Halfmoon and Rebecca Morgan have both diverse and similar experiences and each artist like the clay have transitioned from their experiences. Bishop’s pottery and drawings are full of people she knows and ideas of wild and tame, her work is full of characters that are stand-ins for me and the people around her. Bevington’s work explores the contradictory nature of humans, the two sides of humanity , the face we put on and the hidden desire behind it, seeking beauty and humor in daily life, past the trauma, contradictions, and mortality, Flannery’s work promote a playful, tender approach to living., reflect recent motherhood and the transition of a new role in life, her ideas come from a a comic diary, it is a short daily comic strip of something that happened teach day. Halfmoon’s work illustrates her feelings about the ancient legacy of her Caddo tribal heritage, while at the same time acknowledging the modern day and age. Halfmoon explores themes of “the other,” cultural appropriation and history. Morgan’s work works in painting, drawing, and ceramics that subvert stereotypes of Appalachia. She gives her archetypal maids, hillbillies, and dandies the space to explore contemporary issues of women reclaiming their subjectivity.