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Artist's Statement

My work consists of hand-built porcelain objects that form complex spaces through the use of animated three-dimensional surfaces. The forms are the product of natural variation produced through the repetition of forms. Once constructed, the pieces are fired into a state of vitrification, and what was transient become permanent.

 

The “spaces in between” are the ones that interest me the most- what the Japanese call “ka”- like sky between buildings, ka is characterized by “consciousness of place” and “space as substance.”

We are surrounded by space and energy— both can be visible or invisible, depending on their state or condition. The energy around us gets trapped in the empty place between. My work captures its artistic essence in order to help to articulate for viewers something that often goes unnoticed are acknowledged as they observe and record the physical world.

Exhibitions 

Group Show​

Ecophilia

Brave New Work

Materiality

Floral Motifs

Consummately Aesthetic

Mary Chatham at Gerald Bland

Holliday Shopping

Holiday Shopping

Group Show

Material Pleasures

Visions of America

2020

Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, New York

2018

Berkshire Botanical Garden Gallery, Massachusetts

2017

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Massachusetts

2016

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Massachusetts

2014

The Horticultural Society of New York, New York

2009

Morgan Lehman Gallery, Connecticut

2008 - 

Gerald Bland, New York

2007

Emily Harvey Foundation, New York

2004

Wallspace Gallery, New York

2004

Stellar/ Union Southampton, N.Y.

1985

Queens Museum, New York

1978

Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

Contact

212-431-3271

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 © 2022 by Mary Chatham

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