Elisa D'Arrigo: Taking Shapes
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
September 9 - October 21, 2023
Sidestepper 3, 2023
Glazed ceramic, 5.5 x 8 x 6 inches
© Elisa D'Arrigo, courtesy Elizabeth Harris Gallery
Photography: Adam Reich
The Elizabeth Harris Gallery presents Taking Shapes, an exhibition of new ceramic works by Elisa D'Arrigo. In this exhibition, the artist continues to explore possibilities for integrating color, mark-making, and animated sculptural form within the context of the glazed ceramic vessel.
Taking Shapes alludes to Elisa D'Arrigo process: each piece begins with an array of hollow hand-build cylindrical, spherical and rectilinear clay forms, taking shape as Elisa D'Arrigo manipulates these elemental forms in a period of intense improvisation.
In the artist's words:
"I play with these forms, combining, taking apart, recombining; all the while seeking a configuration that speaks to me, feels fresh and not fully known. Seams, edges and how the form sits, reclines, stands or even slouches ail get attention...the pieces are often taking a stance or in a paused position between moves. I feel the configurations in my own body, and their positions often record or express my own transitory states of mind. "
Elisa D'Arrigo (*1953) was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. In 1971 she attended CIDOC in Cuernavaca, Mexico; she received a BFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz in 1975. She lives and works in New York City.
A catalogue with a text by Kay Whitney
was published by Elizabeth Harris Gallery
ELIZABETH HARRIS GALLERY
529 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
