culture city
This page: Ceramic artwork by TaylorRobenaltCeramics. com, TDRobenalt@aol.com, @ceramic_casualties and @ contemporary_clay_culture
Autobiographic Fantastic TAYLOR ROBENALT SCULPTS HER LIFE’S JOURNEY IN PURE PORCELAIN—and what a year it has been. A year of new life and new beginnings, with Robenalt celebrating her first child and her canine companion having puppies in solidarity— not to mention starting a new job at Ringling College of Art & Design and receiving an artist residency in Greece. The resulting exuberance and optimism pour forth in the porcelain forms of rabbits, raccoons and squirrels, silver-tongued wolves and ruby-lipped women with red cardinals atop their heads. Each piece is handbuilt by Robenalt, who describes the joy of working in this most delicate ceramic material as “like working with butter.” Whimsical and totemic, the series sees the artist further exploring a symbolic narrative that harnesses the fantastic to transcend the specific. “In a weird way, I end up hitting a chord with people,” Robenalt says. “Inevitably, I will sync up with somebody.” SRQ
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY WYATT KOSTYGAN / ARTWORK COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS.
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