Woody De Othello : maybe tomorrow /
The San Francisco-based artist Woody De Othello (born 1991) finds inspiration for his paintings and ceramics by adapting a position of porousness to the things around him. Through his adroit interventions, everyday artifacts of the domestic tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, la...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Karma,
[2023]
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| Summary: | The San Francisco-based artist Woody De Othello (born 1991) finds inspiration for his paintings and ceramics by adapting a position of porousness to the things around him. Through his adroit interventions, everyday artifacts of the domestic tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps and air purifiers are anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood and glass. The result is often tubular, drooping and coated in vibrant reds, purples and magnetic blacks, imbued with the subterranean futurity of jazz. Fittingly, this catalog, published following the eponymous solo exhibition in New York, is titled after jazz musician Grant Green's 1971 tune. The new body of ceramic works in Maybe Tomorrow brim with spiritual charge; the domestic objects are treated as repositories of psychic significance. The catalog explores this thematic wellspring, along with other topics, in an essay by Jason R. Young, as well as in two conversations with the artist. "Woody De Othello describes the first time he touched clay as an epiphany; he "just knew." His immersive installation at Karma, Maybe tomorrow, builds on the alchemy of this initial encounter. Molding, manipulating, layering, and expanding seemingly mundane and domestic forms--clocks, calendars, phones, and box fans--Othello creates affective sculptures imbued with the subterranean futurity of jazz. Domestic objects become repositories of psychic significance, resonant of nkisi, a West and Central African concept in which objects contain and release spiritual forces. For Othello, each work is a vessel, even when it is physically sealed." -- |
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| Item Description: | Published in conjunction with Woody De Othello "Maybe Tomorrow" an exhibition held at Karma, September 24-November 5, 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 111 pages : color illustrations ; 30 x 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781949172966 1949172961 |