MARY ROEHM SOLO at Lacoste Gallery
April 12-30, 2008
Opening reception for the artist, Saturday,
April 12, 3-5 pm

MARY ROEHM SOLO is the artist’s first exhibition of a new body of work in over five years. It includes her recent series of black and white pods, punctuated sculptural forms for the wall, in addition to works highlighting the development of form and focus over her career.

“Sculptural truth has always been the objective of Roehm’s work. This is evident in her earlier large sculptural vessels, through the impossibly thin and pierced containers, which lead to the ripped and fused together thrown forms, and now most recently her purely sculptural punctuated wall pods.”
- Lucy Lacoste

Mary Roehm is known for her gravity defying, paper-thin vessels. Her signature pieces, large thrown bowls with small feet, seem poised between stability and flight. Some are “punctuated” and cut, further pushing the limits of the clay. Roehm’s extraodinary design and technical skills along with the subtlety and beauty of her work have led to residencies, exhibitions and travel in Japan, Korea and China. She is the Director of the Ceramics department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Two Wall Pods, 40 inches long, unglazed porcelain