Ceramic works by Elisa D’Arrigo (CRF 2013, Juror) are currently on view in “Balancing Acts” at Pamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, NY. The show will be up through August 27. Read D’Arrigo’s reflection on her work below, and click here for more information.
“Clay is a good material for revealing the previously unthought. Improvisation is like a non-verbal introspection. I especially relish how asymmetry can generate an intrinsic humor. The emerging forms develop identities, proclivities and telling details: a fold or bend might imply the inner crease of a bent arm, a jutting elbow, or an abdominal roll. In a 2019 catalog essay for my solo exhibition at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery, esteemed writer Nancy Princenthal described my works as ‘incorrigibly unconforming sculpture,’ and ‘a series of alarmingly potent little ceramic figures that engage our propensities for reverie, humor and perhaps most satisfying, deep human recognition.’”