Jackie Brown: Aggregate Series, 2018-2020
Each work in the Aggregate series combines sticks, branches and vines with man-made ropes and knots. By making molds and replicating the objects in clay, I can combine the malleable clay parts to blur boundaries between them and translate the forms into one unified material language. Using these familiar references as a touchstone, I aim to explore human nature and ways that we try to control natural processes, both fostering and restricting growth. The abstracted forms conjure up notions of something that is at once alive and growing, dead and decaying, moving and malleable, frozen and rigid, ecological, geological, and anthropomorphic.
Photo captions (in order of appearance):
- Aggregate, 2020, porcelain, stoneware, and mixed media, 84” x 69” x 10”
- Aggregate, 2020, porcelain, stoneware, and mixed media, detail
- Aggregate, 2020, porcelain, 11” x 7” x 4.5”
- Aggregate, 2020, porcelain and stoneware, 15” x 9” x 6.5”
- Aggregate, 2020, porcelain and stoneware, 14.5” x 8” x 7”
- Aggregate, 2020, porcelain and stoneware, 9.5” x 8” x 7”
- Aggregates, 2018, porcelain and stoneware, 70” x 70” x 5”, made at the European Ceramic Work Center
- Aggregate, 2018, porcelain and stoneware, 7.5” x 5” x 4”
- Aggregate, 2018, porcelain, 5” x 4.5” x 4.5”
- Aggregate, 2018, porcelain, 4” x 3.5” x 3”
- Aggregate, 2018, porcelain, 6” x 4” x 3”.
- Aggregate, 2018, porcelain, 3.5” x 3” x 3”
