Anne Goodrich will be branching out from her ceramic sculptures to also include encaustic paintings. She has always used beeswax as a coating for the ceramics to give the work a softer patina.  This time she has included her recent foray into the world of encaustic 2-D paintings.  She explained that she has always been attracted to beeswax and it just seemed like a natural evolution. She has titled her show “Corporeal”. 

Her works  for this show are not singularly one thing nor the other–not solely sprouting nor decaying, not solely animal, nor vegetable–nether are they singularly beautiful nor ugly.  Rather, they are many things at once, and that ambiguity makes them simultaneously familiar and mysterious.   “Images of living things influence how I bend, stretch, coax, and present the clay, paint, or wax.  Living things that are out of reach or beyond the immediate gaze particularly fascinate me. I contemplate curious forms swimming deep within the ocean, microscopic bursts of pollen living in the air, and the visual strengths and weaknesses of my own body.  My perception of such images seeps into my artwork as I give flesh and form to the living phenomena that I wish to see, accept, and appreciate more clearly.”

Pictured top:  "Swollen" ceramic & beeswax

Pictured bottom: "Blemish" encaustic painting

WINDOW GALLERY
Emilio Berwick

Emilio Berwick is a ceramic artist who has done a series of tall (42”-43”) ceramic sculptures.  Color is achieved with a high iron content stoneware clay.  The hand-built heads are anchored to metals poles with stone bases.

The introduction of words, books and small figures inserted into the heads adds a narrative element.

His inspiration comes from the word “Gri.ot.

The definition follows:
gri.ot
(gree-oh, gree-oh, gree-ot)
-noun
1. a member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems,  songs, dances, etc.
Origin: 1955-60; < F, earlier guiriot, perh. ult
< Pg criado domestic servant, altered in W African coastal creoles