Opening Reception: 5 – 7 p.m., Thursday, February 13
New approaches to create old ideas Old techniques married with new experiments taking risks in attempt to transcend limitations Always embracing the inevitable mistakes. making sure to honor this journey.
– Casey Zablocki
“Clay is an incredible medium. It comes from the earth and water and vitrifies with incredible fire. Wood firing can translate such guttural emotion – as fire marks slash and ash melts glaze onto sub-perfect clay forms. This tradition of wood firing is primal but sometimes is the only way to make modern ideas relate to the past. I have explored ceramics well over a decade and am still to this day searching for the right words to say – and how to say it.”
Montana-based Casey Zablocki is a ceramicist known for his brutal forms and craggy surfaces. His alchemical experimentations with proprietary mixtures of clay push boundaries of scale and material, forging sculptures, functional objects, and furniture that appear as though they were carved from a prehistoric landscape or rescued from architectural ruins.
