Ceramic figure, pensively gazing upward, hands on his round belly, outfitted in his speckled blue jacket, red shirt, and yellow/green striped pants.

Waiting for Better Days

Tenuous Hold

White porcelain cups with a bright green inside stacked on each other to form a random pile.

Cups

A creamy porcelain bowl with a brown cat face. The cat face has blue eyes and a pink nose. Brown pointed ears extend above the rim of the bowl. In the back, the rim has been cut with a spiral for yarn to create a tail. The bowl sits above the table on four legs brown legs with cat paws. 

Siamese Kitten Yarn Bowl

Two porcelain hand thrown bowls dialogue. Hand scribed glazed lines define shape, rhythm and story.

Scribed Storied Bowls

Continuous Maze Pattern: This object is a slipcast ceramic egg with a wax-resist design written in beeswax using a traditional Kistka tool for making Pysanky eggs. The patterns employed are maze, labyrinth and weaving designs meant to be contemplated as visual metaphors for the complexity we see before us now and finding a path to the other side.

Maze Pysanky Egg

Ceramic piece made from slabs of clay, with lots of negative space. Glazed with yellows, orange, green, and black.

Flopsis

BIANCA METAL RAT/Year of the Metal Rat 1/25/20

Sugar bowl with lid, creamer and caddy. Decorative elements include organic sculpted embellishments and turquoise hand-painted, Indian inspired patterns.  Whimsical in nature. 

Tea Set For Maharani

"Broken Promise: Black Lives Matter". Classical portrait of male head in white porcelain clay. Broken shards portray disappointment at failed efforts to find racial justice.

Broken Promise

Dinner Plate

A soft alpaca made of red clay standing on 4 long triangular legs and a long triangular neck. the fur texture is made of swirls that have spikes coming out. the animal looks stoic and is embellished with blue, black and green glaze. it looks very enticing to touch. 

Social Distance 

A ceramic painting with abstract shapes that are white, pink, and orange on a pink panel. An orange textured shaped is underneath two white shapes and wraps around the left side of the painting. 

Invaders

A sculpture with a cement base having a zig zag foot.  It is holding up three arched shaped ceramic forms that are off white, white, and blue.  

Three Pillars

Ceramic ink well type shape, small holes pierce through the top half. Long elegant iron-like scrolls extend up on the left side. Finished with a white washed type terra sigillata. 

Bud Vase

The dwarfed Statue of Liberty faces several tall bollards of the southern border wall construction

Untitled

A young boy plays Peak-a-boo on outdoor playground equipment.

Peak a Boo with Jack

A wheel thrown and altered lidded coffee pot with deep orange and grey blushing. 

Coffee Pot

A sculpture of a turkey dinner on a 1.25 inch ceramic plate. The turkey slices, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries, stuffing, and green beans are sculpted with a combination of polymer clay, liquid clay, and resin. Additional shading was added with soft pastels and watered down acrylics. 

Gluttony

Set of three nesting clay bowls; the largest colored in sections of black, gray and white; the medium one colored primarily white with spots of brown; the smallest colored primarily gray with a small section of black

Pottery Trio

A blue/green oriental style dragon coils around a deep blue ball shaped jar.  Each scale, talon and detail carefully sculpted and applied one at a time. The frill around the face, the horns and teeth are covered in 22k gold. It holds in it's mouth another round ball covered in iridescent glaze.  This "pearl" mimics the ball the dragon encircles. The blue ball jar is also highlighted by some iridescence.  The jar comes open dividing the dragon just before the front legs.

Dragon Jar

This wall sculpture portrays two black beetles rolling a distinctly orange, prominent politician's head instead of a ball of dung.  

Nope

This is a hand thrown platter with a hand drawn image of a cow head on it with a gold halo around it.The Halo is done in luster so it is very shiny and metallic in contrast to the black and white image of the cow and border. Around the border of the platter are clover plants. The cow is a holstein cow, black and white spotted and the style of drawing is a kind of cross hatched etching sort of look. 

Saints of the Barnyard: They Give Us Their Milk

An old man sitting on a glossy red park bench reading his newspaper with his dog lying on the cobblestone pavement waiting patiently. 
Inspired from a photo of my father with his dog.

Dad and Cartlin

Ceramic, domed frame with circular window revealing a realistic, sculpted head with decorated face within. 

Free To Be Me

A shiny, smooth, palm sized celadon blue-green ceramic clam object, with a spot of black carbon captured in its glaze, rests upon a small draped mound of seaweed knitted using narrow black linen paper yarn, all poised upon an inverted wood bento box.

Hamaguri

A porcelain object that shaped like half of a torso of a bird. The surface of the object is covered with sculpted feathers and fingers. 

Shelter

A photo of three vases, with the third vase on the right side laying down at an angle to show the glaze inside. Each vase is an earthy shade of red with highlights and shadows from the kiln. The rim of each vase has a golden-yellow colored glaze with some drips coming partially down vase.

Three Vases

A sculpture of a Black womans face. The texture is smooth from the acrylic paint. The back of the sculpture is flat. 

Face

Dark, gestural hand thrown bottle that was fired with wood in an anagama style kiln. This bottle is naturally glazed with melted wood ash. 

Waiting for Better Days, 2016

Carla Kennedy