Artist Talk with Ceramicist Paul Briggs
Artist Paul Briggs joins us this Sunday, March 3, to discuss his practice and process, including his work Whorl on view in the exhibition Craft Across Continents at Mint Museum Uptown.
Briggs employs a unique pinching technique to extract natural leaf-like forms from classic ceramic vessels, resulting in work characterized by balance and precision. His guiding principle, “Nature makes no aesthetic mistakes,” underscores his endeavor to defy convention and constraints. Among his notable pieces, The Impact of Incarceration on Black Lives, features 25 ceramic black boxes, scaled to jail cell dimensions, with twisted, coiled bars protruding.