Visions In Clay 2023
Crystal Kamoroff
Bio:
Crystal Rose Kamoroff is an artist, educator, curator, musician and guide from Northern California. She was raised in the mountains of Mendocino County a child of the land, the Back To The Land Movement. She received AA degrees from Cabrillo College, BFA from San Jose State University and MFA from Bowling Green State University. Crystal teaches ceramics at various institutions throughout the Bay Area, at Merritt College, De Anza College and at the Randall Museum. Crystal also facilitates ceramic programing and ceramic technical support for San Francisco Department of Recreation and Parks. Crystal runs the Randall Museum Ceramic Studio and also founded The Portal Gallery which has a mission to exhibit educational work oriented towards social and environmental justice, and to inspire awe and wonder.
While clay is central to Crystal’s sculpture and art making practice, she also works with other materials and media as needed. Crystal is a Light Worker with a deep felt desire to serve those in need. She addresses the entire self as an interwoven, energetic system of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual energy. Crystal was drawn to transformative work on her journey of healing from cancer. Crystal wears many hats, working with various modalities of expressive and healing arts that combine creative and nourishing practices of expression and awareness for the purpose of holistic wellness.
Crystal enjoys working with people and building community. She is on a mission to connect, share and empower people with the autonomy and freedom of creative practices. Crystal is currently working on larger collaborative projects like The Family Bands, The Better Best Butterfly Business Bureau and Crystal Rose’s Rainbow Book of Self Compassion, that combine visual, performing and healing arts to envision new ways of connecting and supporting one another towards healing one another and the planet.
Artist Statement:
Reinvention and transformation of a physical and spiritual nature motivate me.
An act of connecting to construct a desirable whole from interdependent parts.
Utilizing tension to bridge polar relationships of the internal and external.
The incongruity between the automatic peripheral systems and those of direct consciousness.
The soft underbelly, simple innards and complex mechanisms that propel an organism forward to fulfill a natural history.
I imagine a dreamy world beyond rational systems with a common denominator for variable, irrational and fantastic anomalies. I assure you, there is no beginning, and I am not afraid.
No beginning. No absolute, no linear, successive, nor sequential, no. But a spiral of unquantifiable beginnings, beginning again, again beginning. Divinity, purpose and manipulation of vibrant matter, irrefutable existence. Reality lying above reality, a suspension of distinctions.
And the senses like a bridge connect to the past, present and future. The senses can span time, time travel and tear apart reality and reassemble the pieces into something meaningful.
Fragments translated into planes, a sensory, a drawing, an object, an atmosphere, a funnel for the locomotion of transmutation. I create art to enhance these, the senses and to add sensation to a world brimming with beauty and terror.
The Energy & Strength of Red with the Integrity & Truth of Blue
ceramic, glaze, underglaze, cone 04 – 1 oxidation
33”x9”x7”
2021
Exhibition Season:
Visions in Clay 2023