Mel Jelacic is a ceramic artist that came back to Maryland after 20 years Brooklyn, NY. Her work celebrates the symbolic, sentimental value of objects that have no other worth than just being. It explores the ties between people and the material world, the transference of memory and emotions onto objects and the comfort they provide. For our love of this world goes beyond what has a beating heart.
pain - before and after
A two-sided sculpture visually explaining what it is like to suffer from debilitating migraines - like the world is collapsing in on you. And then to find relief - a breath of fresh air.
Medium: Steel
Year: 2022
Details: 1' wide x2' long x1' tall
Keith W. Bentley’s sculptures are uncanny, strange classical statuettes through material
intervention. Bentley finds his inspiration somewhere in-between the canon of sculptural form
and materials drawn from his quotidian experience: rubber, household items, concrete, hair. The
resulting works force the viewer to question value hierarchies of art and materials. The identities
of Bentley’s forms never settle, giving rise to something different, something unrecognizable, a
new area of representation.
Bentley’s works have been exhibited throughout North America, including the Museum of and