Elizabeth Kendall

About the Artist

Elizabeth Kendall lives and works in Maryland on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay  Her vessels, sculptures and installations have been exhibited in national and international venues and is in the permanent collections of the Yixing Ceramics Museum, Peoples Republic of China, the International Ceramic Center in Denmark, the MGM corporation, and the Petroleum Club in Midland, TX among others.  Additional private and corporate installation commissions can be found in Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Recent shows and exhibitions include: 2021 Gibson Island Gallery, MD 2020 Cedar Creek Teapot Invitational. Cedar Creek Gallery, SC Melange 1. Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD Flow. Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA 2019 Art for Gifting. Jo Fleming Gallery, MD Creative Space. Martino Gallery, MD 2018 Breath of Fresh Air. Maryland Hall, MD Raveling. Bridgewater University, MA Windswept. Holly Gallery, MD

Artist's Statement

I am interested in the interplay and interdependence of opposites. Shadow cannot exist without light.  Volume requires line. Something has to have been present for its absence to be felt. Repetition can lead to an infinite variety.   I work with a variety of materials: lush porcelain, colorful and translucent glass, resilient steel; using tools and processes that are familiar to the kitchen the sewing room, and the clay studio.  The shapes that emerge are a conversation between my hands and the clay.   Referencing remembered stories from my past and what is in front of me at the moment my ceramic components are both bricks and windows: responding to and defining space, celebrating light and shadow. The abstract forms move and meander along the wall allowing the eye or hand to explore space both within and around.  They can obscure or reveal, both, at once the frame for story and story in their own right. Each perspective brings a new story that can draw my audience into new directions.   What I make can be at the same time beautiful and overt in its utility and part of a larger thoughtful exchange that moves far beyond the traditional.