About The Work
Brie Ruais creates non-functional ceramics–typically large scale wall and floor sculptures made of a mound of clay equal to her weight, labor-intensively shaped into crude textures with only her body. A complementary series of small scale works that she calls Affirmation Pots include pots whose tops are pinched off, bowls without bottoms, and punctured pitchers, each painted with a scrawled message of hope despite its battered, inutile state. The affirmation pots in this unique edition made for the 2015 Bronx Museum Gala bear the platitude “Bet You Can.”
About Brie Ruais
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Sculpting the Landscape: Brie Ruais on Using Clay as a Metaphor for Land's Violent History
- Interviews & Features: Full-Contact Ceramics: Sculptor Brie Ruais on Wrestling Conceptual Statements From Mountains of Clay
- News & Events: Brie Ruais’s Lovable, Feel-Good Wrecks
- News & Events: Art Advisor Candace Worth's NADA New York 2015 Picks
Slip-cast and manipulated vessel, glazed ceramic
9.50 x 9.50 x 9.00 in
24.1 x 24.1 x 22.9 cm
This work is signed, titled and dated on bottom by the artist.
About The Work
Brie Ruais creates non-functional ceramics–typically large scale wall and floor sculptures made of a mound of clay equal to her weight, labor-intensively shaped into crude textures with only her body. A complementary series of small scale works that she calls Affirmation Pots include pots whose tops are pinched off, bowls without bottoms, and punctured pitchers, each painted with a scrawled message of hope despite its battered, inutile state. The affirmation pots in this unique edition made for the 2015 Bronx Museum Gala bear the platitude “Bet You Can.”
About Brie Ruais
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Sculpting the Landscape: Brie Ruais on Using Clay as a Metaphor for Land's Violent History
- Interviews & Features: Full-Contact Ceramics: Sculptor Brie Ruais on Wrestling Conceptual Statements From Mountains of Clay
- News & Events: Brie Ruais’s Lovable, Feel-Good Wrecks
- News & Events: Art Advisor Candace Worth's NADA New York 2015 Picks
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