Alex Renee

I create abstract sculptures in clay, blending forms drawn from body, curve, and landscape. My work explores material through the physicality of ceramics, where figuration and geometry intersect. After Waiting was created between 2019 and 2025. I shaped this small work and left it unfired for several years, existing in its vulnerable greenware state—suspended between intention and completion. It remained poised to become stone as I considered the ideas that shaped it. Was it ready to exist? Was I ready to let it? During that time, I returned to ancient objects—Cycladic figures, tools, and fragments whose makers are unknown. Preserved yet removed from context, they informed my understanding of form, endurance, and loss. Their presence echoes in the work’s shifting identity: part figure, part object, part relic. I prefer raw clay to glazed surfaces; exposed material reveals making and history. Its pale surface recalls stone, bone, or an artifact recovered from the earth. When I finally fired it in 2025, the decision felt like acceptance rather than completion. The work had already become what it was. The kiln simply allowed it to endure.
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