artist statement _
My practice explores identity, intimacy, and belonging, bound by the expectations of living within a body and a form, through the creation of hand-built ceramic sculptures and hand-taped optical paintings rendered in expressive broken color: recording time and place. Utilizing slab-coil ceramic construction, acquiescing to material entropy and gravity, these objects are an amalgamation of large tubes emphasizing the void of the mass. Employing queer aesthetics—subverting traditions of disciplines, traditions, and notions of taste—and material such as 501 jeans and hankies, along with the hand of the maker in the layering of textural synthetic polymer paints, these bisque-fired ceramic sculptures and paintings act as a palimpsest, tracing the trajectory of one’s experience in discovering/anatomizing/constructing their expression of self-identity. Overall, my work seeks to create a dialogue on transformation, transcendence, fluidity, perception, time, and cultural objects ¾ 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