Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Flower Brick

USA, 1900
Date acquired:
Materials:
Porcelain
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown and Altered
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Jennifer Allen

Adrian Arleo is a ceramic sculptor whose work focuses on human and animal forms. Her sculptures can represent a human figure, an animal form or both. Each piece begins with a sketch that is transformed into three dimensions using one inch diameter extruded coils.Arleo uses glazes to finish her surfaces, sometimes she employs the encaustic technique, and metallic leaf may also appear on her figures.

The coils are rolled to compress the clay and decrease their diameters. The looseness of the hand building process allows her to build the figural forms she employs. Often the poses she gives her human figures reference Greek and Roman sculptures. Her surfaces are typically highly textured. Inspiration comes from the natural world around her. Perhaps it?s honeycomb, the strata of a mountain side, the bark of a tree or fur or feathers.

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