Cammi Climaco: Wild Freedom is on view at Geary Contemporary, New York
July 19 – September 28, 2025
Geary is pleased to present Wild Freedom, a solo exhibition of ceramics by Cammi Climaco in our second-floor space in Millerton, New York.
The work within Wild Freedom began with experimentation of forms: vessel, sculpture and functional object, and became about considering what objects make a person. Objects represent someone’s inner world, mark time, and/or can indicate a future self. As Cammi states: “Clay is the best material for this unstructured exploration. It’s a way of working which is immediate and thought to fingers. It also has the ability to live for thousands of years and is a reminder as a maker how my time is so small in comparison and how special a thousand year old object is.”
This work is an unrestricted approach to making. The objects are intentionally made in an array of styles and methods, moving from wheel thrown to hand built, to elicit an emotion specific to that moment. A vessel may have a quickness to it, which Climaco has practiced over and over to capture, to create a mood and at the same time a reference to a person that made an impact on her ceramics history or the natural world. By using color groups to force objects together, just like the objects that exist on a shelf in her own home, Climaco wanted to create a possible character, a choose your own adventure style narrative of experience.
“I’m obsessed with objects as relationships. I have a Ukrainian flute from a festival in Utica, which reminds me of a love affair in 2014. I have a ceramic chicken my father gave me, he was an obsessive collector (in a bad way) which reminds me not to hoard. And, I have a blue bowl from a student which reminds me of how nice people are. In this current body of work, everything is something; a memory, reaction, celebration or homage.”
Cammi Climaco is a ceramicist and multidisciplinary artist living in Queens, working in Brooklyn. Cammi studied Ceramics at Kent State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Contact
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Geary Contemporary
34 Main Street
Millerton, NY 12546
United States
Photos courtesy of Geary Contemporary
