Visions In Clay 2023
Linda S. Fitz Gibbon
Bio:
Born in NY, Linda S. Fitz Gibbon lives and works in Woodland, CA. She has an MFA in Visual Arts from the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University, and BA Cum Laude from Yale University. Artist Residencies include the Vermont Studio Center and Anderson Ranch Art Center, CO. Fitz Gibbon is an Art Professor at Cosumnes River College, Sacramento. Her work is in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, the Arizona State University Museum, Tempe; the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Publications include Confrontational Ceramics, 500 Figures in Clay: Volumes I & II, Ceramics Art and Perception, and Ceramics Monthly.
Artist Statement:
Time Transfixed is an homage to Rene Magritte’s painting of a locomotive blasting out of a fireplace. It was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, which drastically upended everyone’s perception of reality. The composition retains Magritte’s key elements but changes the mantle clock to a gold pocket watch – a personal memento and nod to Dali, and the two empty candle stick holders to a singular Wedgwood version, with lit candle falling over the edge. The train becomes a child’s toy adding to the twisted feeling of being in a surreal period of change with time stopped in its tracks.
Time Transfixed
Hand built with Laguna B-mix cone 5, multi-fired to cone 1 with underglaze, glaze, mason stains, and lusters.
17.5” x 12.5” x 10” (wall mount)
2022
$600
Exhibition Season:
Visions in Clay 2023