Comfortable Shapes

The artworks here were in a show at Abrams Claghorn a few years ago. the show was titled Comfortable Shapes and this is the artist statement from that body of work:

My sculptures are serial progressions working at the intersection of form and surface. These sculptures are deliberately non-functional. Where the potter is concerned with what will fill the form, and how it functions, I was only interested in the interaction between shape and surface. When practicing art in any medium, I work in series. With this body of work, the forms began as shapes common to functional pottery. The idea was to make things that simply represent the functional, trumping the classical image of pottery and expanding the viewer’s expectation of clay objects. Lately, I have added ambiguity to the shapes. Strict or literal representation is less interesting. I have finished many of these shapes with surfaces that invite the viewer to imagine a back story, a history.