Brittany Mojo: Nowness, 2021
The works in Nowness are an assembly of action, a consequence of time spent. Each folded and pinched, coiling through past, present, and future. Their nowness evident in each move.
Not to be mistaken for production objects, these works are architypes of bodies. Forms are bloated and strained, exhausted yet relieved through moments of deflation and cracking. They are a record of solitude, of The time of introspection; of the pandemic. They are both modes of coping and strategies of growth. They exist because yes, much like we do.
Clay is an endless receiver of action. It amasses a body through the collection of simple movements. A coil placed. Again, a pinch completed. All nows totaling these objects of seconds and minutes. A line traced, a square repeated and filled in, flowers from your lover gathered on skin.
Mojo’s process relies on a few truths: dichotomies and contradictions, layered repetition through process and pattern. All openly left by a hand, the artifact of now. The works are of labor and often signal diminished importance. A delicate object finds it’s opposite in strong pattern; a quick action finds time and tedium through accumulation. Just as now was then, soon becomes now.
NOWNESS: Solo exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, September 2021
Photo captions
- Installation view of Nowness exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, September 2021, ceramics, wood, and brick, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Installation view of Kitchen Floor Series, 2020-present, stoneware, porcelain, and underglaze, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail of Kitchen Floor Series, Works shown in clockwise order:
a. Kitchen Floor, For Marge, 2021, Stoneware, underglaze, 15” x 12.5” x 12.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Not So, 2021, stoneware and underglaze, 13” x 12” x 12” photo credit Mason Kuehler
c. Basin, 2021, stoneware and underglaze 13.25” x 13.25” x 10” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Detail of Kitchen Floor Series, Works shown in left-to-right order:
a. And On, 2021 stoneware and underglaze, 13.5” x 11.5” x 11.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Lean, 2021, stoneware and underglaze, 14” x 12” x 12” photo credit Mason Kuehler
c. Say Goodbye (Alt), 2021, stoneware and underglaze, 16” x 15.25” x 15.25” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Installation view of Nowness exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, works shown in foreground-background order:
a. Nowness, 2020, stoneware and underglaze, 20” x 20” x 12.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. May be a platonic thing, 2016/2021, porcelain applique on stoneware, 17.5” x 18” x 34.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
c. Wallpaper Series, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
d. Classic, 2019, porcelain applique on stoneware, 18” x 18” x 34.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Installation view of Nowness exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, September 2021, ceramics, wood, and brick, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Installation view of Nowness exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, September 2021, ceramics, wood, and brick, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Either and Or from left to right:
a. Either, 2021, stoneware, porcelain, underglaze, 22” x 22” x 18” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Or, 2021, stoneware, porcelain, underglaze, 22” x 22” x 20” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Installation view, works from left to right:
a. Net, Again, 2021, porcelain and stoneware, 40” x 46” x 35” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Completely, 2021, porcelain and underglaze and hand-carved redwood base, 18.5” x 18” x 18” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Installation view, works from left to right top line to bottom line:
a. Wave like home, 2020, stoneware and porcelain applique on stoneware and redwood stool, 16” x 17” x 15” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Wherever you go, 2020, stoneware and porcelain applique on stoneware, 17” x 17.5” x 16.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
c. Mixed up Moon, 2021, porcelain and underglaze on hand-carved redwood , 12.5” x 8” x 8” photo credit Mason Kuehler
d. Frost, 2021, porcelain and underglaze on porcelain grid, 12” x 7” x 7” photo credit Mason Kuehler
e. so much is soft (too), 2021, porcelain and underglaze on porcelain grid, 8” x 5” x 5” - Detail of installation view from left to right:
a. Wave like home, 2020, stoneware and porcelain applique on stoneware and redwood stool, 16” x 17” x 15” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Wherever you go, 2020, stoneware and porcelain applique on stoneware, 17” x 17.5” x 16.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
c. Mixed up Moon, 2021, porcelain and underglaze on hand-carved redwood , 12.5” x 8” x 8” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Installation view of ensemble including collaged wood and ceramic elements; works from left to right:
a. Let go Lightly (for Daniel Scott Parker), 2020, stoneware, porcelain applique on hand-carved redwood, eucalyptus, and butcher block pedestal, 17.25” x 17.25” x 13.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. I thought you were (home), 2020, stoneware and underglaze, 19.5” x 19.5” x 16” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Installation View from foreground to background:
a. Triumph and Sorrow, 2021, stoneware and underglaze, 22” x 22” x 28” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Nowness, 2020, stoneware and underglaze, 20” x 20” x 12.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Always Fleshy, 2021, porcelain and stoneware on hand-carved Eucalyptus 18” x 17.5” x 17.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Classic, 2019, porcelain applique on stoneware, 18” x 18” x 34.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Installation view, works from top to bottom:
a. so much is soft, 2021, stoneware and underglaze, 14” x 13.5” x 13.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
b. Always (fleshy again), 2021, porcelain and stoneware applique on stoneware, hand-carved Eucalyptus, 13.5 “ x 13.5” x 15” photo credit Mason Kuehler - Untie, tine, net, 2021, stoneware and porcelain on pine and brick pedestal, 22” x 20.5” x 20.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Wallpaper series detail, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Wallpaper series detail, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Wallpaper series, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Wallpaper series detail, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Wallpaper series detail, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, Let go Lightly (for Daniel Scott Parker), 2020, stoneware, porcelain applique on hand-carved redwood, eucalyptus, and butcher block pedestal, 17.25” x 17.25” x 13.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, I thought you were (home), 2020, stoneware and underglaze, 19.5” x 19.5” x 16” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, Wave like home, 2020, stoneware and porcelain applique on stoneware and redwood stool, 16” x 17” x 15” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, Wave like home, 2020, stoneware and porcelain applique on stoneware and redwood stool, 16” x 17” x 15” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, I thought you were (home), 2020, stoneware and underglaze, 19.5” x 19.5” x 16” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, Untie, tine, net, 2021, stoneware and porcelain on pine and brick pedestal, 22” x 20.5” x 20.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, Untie, tine, net, 2021, stoneware and porcelain on pine and brick pedestal, 22” x 20.5” x 20.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, flower, porcelain braid, underglaze study, Vocabulary of objects, 2016-2021, mixed media, dimensions variable photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Vocabulary of objects, 2016-2021, mixed media, dimensions variable photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Shoulda done better, 2021, stoneware and underglaze, 19.5” x 21” x 12.5” photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, Wallpaper series, 2016-present, porcelain, glass, brass, sterling silver, stainless steel, and mixed media, dimensions variable, photo credit Mason Kuehler
- Detail, birdie, flower vessel, grid and flower, Vocabulary of objects, 2016-2021, mixed media, dimensions variable photo credit Mason Kuehler
