artist statement _
My practice explores self-identity, body, and the psyche bound by the expectations of living within a body and a form; through the creation of hand-built ceramic sculptures and paintings rendered in expressive broken color, recording: natural and urban environments, time and place.
Utilizing pentimenti, erasure, framing, and moiré effects; accreting layers of textural synthetic polymer paints, acquiescing to material entropy and gravity, on handbuilt ceramic sculpture and canvas, act as a palimpsest, tracing the evolution and trajectory of one’s experience in discovering/anatomizing/constructing their expression of self-identity.
The linear mark-making, built up through layers of lines of color and delineating with a mixture of synthetic polymer and sand, reveals a phantasmagoria of previous and current ‘personal self-expressions’. Slight imperfections reveal the artist’s hand and malleability in constructing/presenting the nebulous image. The linear backgrounds and graphic foregrounds create perceptual depth in a multiplanar field of shifting spaces and fabricated light, that allows for multidimensional readings of the work, suspended in a state of flux. Overall, my work seeks to create a dialogue on transformation, transcendence, fluidity, time, and cultural objects —— disturbing personal perception while emphasizing the interiority of oneself.
These pieces synthesize contradictory elements of mass and space; stasis and flux; painting and sculpture; art and craft; distinct and optical color; light and shadow.
—Addison Wolff
AW STUDIO FTL. FL.
2024 ©
Readings _
David J. Getsy, "Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction," in Jared Ledesma, ed., Queer Abstraction, exh. cat. (Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2019), 65-75