The Goldmark Cultural Center’s Norman Brown Gallery is proud to present “Possible Worlds”, an exhibition of ceramic sculptural works by artist Christy Wittmer.

The exhibition is on display from November 11 to December 19, 2024. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, 11/16, from 1pm - 3pm. Christy will present an artist talk about the exhibition and her artwork at 1:30pm on Saturday, 11/16.

The reception and artist talk are ideal opportunities to meet the artist and learn from her about her artwork and exhibition.

About the Exhibition
Possible Worlds is an exhibition that abstracts human histories and refigures them for an expansive future. Complicated porcelain structures and industrialized forms explore the space between progress and entropy, the known and the unexpected, and physical and unbodied worlds. These abstract thought/feeling studies investigate experiences of upheaval and messy emotions as open-ended questions and points of possibility.

Artist Statement
Balancing experimentation with skilled craft I create sculptures that challenge expectation of function and notions of stability.

Clay is an essential material in my work. Press your finger into its cool softness and it will give way, recording the trace of the interaction, an indication of the hand-made. Coils of clay are a primal mark, the first thing humans make in clay. My repetition of this shape echoes the experience of daily practice. The hours and marks accumulate into a structure more complex than the single simple gesture. With fire, the clay ossifies irreversibly into an unchanging and fragile artifact.

I contrast these delicate hand made sculptures with soft fabric forms and industrial objects. Stacked and balanced, the work is held together by the weight of one object supporting another, creating spaces of tenuous stability. The temporary equilibrium of this work engages body awareness, exploring time, impermanence and longing.

- Christy Wittmer