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 — 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 MIA/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