Haylie Jimenez’s current body of work focuses heavily on expressive figures drawn on ceramics in various landscapes and locations that are often transitional or public spaces such as in a car, the woods, or a bar, and often at night. The people in her drawings have distinct fashion, including piercings and various hairstyles. The imagery is rooted in realism and indirect memories, creating scenes with the intent to make them feel almost ethereal or unrooted in reality to the viewer.
2022
Guy Davis
Namdoo Kim
Namdoo Kim is an artist with great intellectual curiosity, enormous technical capability, and a deep interest in human society and culture. Kim’s work focuses on issues derived from the material desires among people and their influence, using glass and ceramics, which are the central medium of his works, and they are reflected in cynical perspectives with a sense of humor and satire. While bright and playful on the surface, Kim’s works referencing toys, Adidas athleisure footwear, and other familiar consumer items hold a darker meaning. Building from the ground covered by pop art of the late 20th century, Kim’s pieces have an edge that cuts open and lays bare the contradictions, moral decay, and disappointment inherent within overheated consumer pursuits.
Kim was born and grew up in South Korea. He completed his undergraduate degree in fine arts focusing on glass and ceramics at Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea. Kim then traveled to the United States and embarked on an MFA degree at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, which he completed in 2013. Kim completed his Ph.D. within the Glass Workshop at the School of Art and Design, Australian National University in Canberra Australia in 2021.
Chris Riccardo
Chris Riccardo’s sculptures are a direct physical manifestation of his inner thoughts and moral struggles. He wants his viewers to share in his insecurities and discomfort—if one walks away from his work and feels somewhat violated, excited, intrigued, and maybe even a little happier, then he feels he has succeeded. His process begins with a thought, a vision, a look—some trigger that draws him to the clay. No longer using exhaustive preliminary sketches and maquettes, he simply visualizes how he wants the clay to look and begins slowly and painstakingly to build and tear at the surface, gradually making aesthetic changes as he sees fit.
Chris Riccardo received his BFA from Boston University in 1990. Chris served as the sculpture department chair and foundry director at the Armory Art Center in Florida from 1998 to 2014. Chris was a Bray summer resident in 2012, a long-term resident 2015-2017, and served as the Executive Director at the Holter Museum of Art from 2015-2022.
Kelly McLaughlin
Kelly McLaughlin grew up in Washington State where she received her BFA in Printmaking and Ceramics from Pacific Lutheran University in 2014. She completed a Post Baccalaureate program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage in 2017 and received her MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University in 2020. After graduate school, she was awarded a Summer Residency at the Archie Bray and then became a resident at Studio 740 in Helena, MT, where she still lives and makes work today.
Though agnostic herself, McLaughlin’s work is often influenced by her religious upbringing and ideas behind societal belief structures. As a figurative sculptor, she uses expression, color, realism, and a large scale for her animal and human forms. The physicality and responsive nature of her work is reflected within the other facets of her life including climbing, cooking, music, and world travel. Her work has been showcased all over the US and can be found in numerous private collections.
