Lindsay Pichaske creates ceramic sculptures of animals that blur species boundaries. They challenge the perceived order and comfortable classifications of life.
These animals are tricksters; familiar but also alien, seductive but also scary, animal but also human, alive but also dead. In a world where petals mimic fur and hair impersonates bone, even materials upset their expected roles.
Material and process are the tangible means through which Lindsay contemplate the lines separating these opposing worlds. Using clay, a material that relies on touch to take shape, she sculpts and articulates animal forms to generate a semblance of life.
Then, the fleshy coats covering the ceramic ‘skin’ are meticulously and lovingly applied, allowing her to both control and understand the figure as it comes into existence.
Lindsay Pichaske received her MFA from the University of Colorado, and her BFA from the University of North Carolina. Her work is exhibited throughout the country, including SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery in St, Louis, Foster/White Gallery in Seattle, and Flashpoint Gallery in Washington, DC.
Images courtesy of Lindsay Pichaske
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