It is a collective exchange that informs Amelia Lockwood’s gestural language, producing power objects that are reflections of our energetic surroundings. Within each work, Amelia constructs a world. An unknown home, celestial, geological, architectural, heart throbbing in-between our known reality and the psychedelic realms that orbit us.

Amelia Lockwood received her BFA from Syracuse University in 2021, completed post-bac studies at the University of Colorado, and received her MFA from The University of California, Los Angeles in 2020. Selected exhibitions include Maia’s Pool, Various Small Fires, James Wright Gallery, In Lieu, One Trick Pony, Odd Ark, No Place, The Valley, and Five Car Garage Gallery amongst others. Lockwood lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Maxwell Henderson explores his biracial identity and challenges material hierarchies in Western art by using ceramics, drawing inspiration from his upbringing and experiences with poverty. He takes influence from Kutani porcelain and the fluidity of Icelandic rivers to create unconventional elongated tiles that embody the balance between chaos and calm, inviting viewers to experience meditative activation. His vessels, which deliberately defy utility, pay homage to pottery while symbolizing his desire to challenge and transcend conventions. Rooted in the concept of “qualia,” his art aims to foster self-discovery and appreciation for the complex human experience.

Maxwell Henderson received his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his BFA from Arizona State University. Maxwell also studied as a Special Student at Penn State and has participated in several artist residencies, including the La Serra Collective in Denver, CO.

Stephen Creech is an artist working to create joyful experiences that celebrate what is possible. His work explores the concepts of multiple dimensions and worlds that become his pieces’ focus and/or setting. The goal is to create works of joy, interest, and beauty accessible to anyone, each driven by process and discovery.

Stephen Creech received a BA from the University of Morehead, KY. He has worked in Los Angeles as a studio assistant for Peter Gernz and managed four ceramic studios. In 2012, he began working at American Art Clay, a ceramic materials manufacturer, where he currently holds the title of Director of Special Projects. Stephen co-founded Clay Week, an organization that celebrates ceramics globally, and Indy Clay Coop, a ceramics gallery in Indianapolis, IN.

Colin Chudyk creates ceramic bodies that serve as habitat for nonhuman species (insects, birds, fungi, plants). Billions of beings live on and inside us – in the microbiome. We are indivisible from these inhabitants, and from the toxic environments we together occupy. My work collapses biological and terrestrial into a single landscape of toxicity, expressed as swollen skin, oozing lesions, bursting tailing ponds, or dribbling feedlots. These landscape-bodies record the grotesque beauty of ecological collapse.

Colin Chudyk is a Montreal-based artist and architect. His work explores extraction, toxicity, and bodily landscapes through the language of industrial structures and expressions of the grotesque. Colin has a Master of Architecture from Yale University. In a past career he worked in the mineral exploration industry, searching for gold and other minerals. Clay, a mined substance, is his new medium.

Jake Boggs makes work that is a fusion of surface and form. He draws inspiration from the vast well of ceramic history and interprets how past potters approached the vessel as a pictorial substrate. While engaging in mark making he draws from a plethora of observed compositions found in the spaces he inhabits.

Jake Boggs earned an MFA from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and a BFA from Eastern Kentucky University, both in ceramics. He is currently the Ceramics Studio Coordinator at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa, Hawai’i, and serves on the board of Hawai’i Craftsmen, a statewide non-profit that works to enrich the community through contemporary craft.

Erika NJ Allen’s work visualizes her consumption of tropical fruits since childhood and how that diet functions as a vehicle to study the intersection of world history, economics, politics, mental and physical health, and art. Using ceramics, fresh produce, and analog photography as vehicles, Allen seeks to engage life and death. As she continues to find ways in which clay and fruit can live together – just like a body lives with an implanted object – her journey to improve the human condition through art will go on. Each work of art visualizes Allen’s diet which plays a key role in her healing, both mentally and physically, while attempting to convey a feeling of resilience. The process of the ‘making’ has become therapeutic, allowing for vulnerabilities to become known and easy to share with the goal to encourage others to open to their own challenges and resilience.

Erika NJ Allen is a Guatemalan-born artist who earned her BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.