Ceramic stoneware, wood fired sculpture. The piece resembles a bunny sitting in a relaxed and optimistic position. The back legs stretching out in front of the front, and ears are up high with alert and awareness.

Hitch

A medium salad bowl made from clay and glazed half black, half yellow with an irregular bright green section through the middle.

Bowl

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

A clay giraffe mask with brown glaze and bronze dry brush.

Spirit Mask Number One (Giraffe)

A photograph of an orange, black, and white ceramic facsimile of a traffic cone sitting in the middle of a city street at night.

Emergency Regulations

A dark mustard brown and blue octopus resting apon a multicolored rock with the front two tentacles extending outward.

Octopus on Rock

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

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

Peak a Boo with Jack

A teapot styled in a metallic and leather steampunk facade with straps, whirly-gigs, chains, ropes and gears.

Steampunk Teapot

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

Face

Wheel-thrown pottery bowl with black, gray and while clay marbled together. Facets are cut in the top two-thirds of the bowl.

Marbled Bowl

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

A non-objective ceramic form rendering the artists perception of a human relation. Two glossy green arches opposing each other in direction and size sit on top of a matte pink bumpy base. The color and form play at duality.

Relations

A Ceramic Box with an etched drawing of Dolly Parton. The top has the name "Dolly" etched in cursive. The other 3 sides feature a guitar, rainbows and flowers

Dolly Box

A small teapot, cup and tray in shades of blue, designed to create a moment of peace and contemplation.

Personal Tea Set

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

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

A diorama painting/sculpture of dark ceramic islands rising from the ocean with partial atoll of nature findings amidst turquoise water, looming in the corner is a pile of floating plastic.

Contextual Glimpse

Tenuous Hold

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

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 variety of hand-thrown pottery, measuring approximately 3/8" to 1" in diameter.  They are mounted on a piece of natural wood.

Miniature Hand-thrown Pottery

A silky red rose made of polymer clay and coated with a shimmering sheer gloss.

A Rose for My Mom

"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

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

Free To Be Me

A saturated red balaclava mask sits on a blank white backdrop. The mask is stretched giving the form a large open mouth and eyes.  

Red 2

Child's Hand

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

Untitled

A small ceramic jar, cylindrical in shape that has a flat top and a smooth transition into four stout legs. In the center of the jar, a glossy black hemisphere caps the opening to the jar. The flat top of the jar has a organic, scored texture and is glazed in a matte gold lustre. The side and feet of the jar are glazed in a matte, mottled green black that sharply contrasts the gold on its top, and the glossy black on its lid.

Hitch, 2020

Daryn S Lowman