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  • Something's Not Right
    Something's Not Right

    2021, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, electric-firing, (6, 8, 10 inches)

  • Hiding
    Hiding

    2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (22, 14, 16 inches)

  • Revealing
    Revealing

    2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (28, 16, 15 inches)

  • Rising
    Rising

    2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (32, 14, 14 inches)

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About Vanna

Baltimore City

Vanna Ramirez is an artist with a passion for clay, and enjoys exploring both sculptural and functional forms in her work. She holds a BS in studio art from Skidmore College, and has attended the 53rd annual clay conference of NCECA as a Multicultural Fellow, workshops at Penland School of Craft and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and residencies at the Red Lodge Clay Center, Arquetopia and Baltimore Clayworks. She currently attends the Special Student… more

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Somewhere Between Chaos and Silence

Somewhere Between Chaos and Silence is a collection of figural work featuring an unconventional incorporation of stoneware, porcelain and light. Painful and malign overgrowths envelope these stoic figures, each experiencing their own conditions of adversity. Their textural forms expose a paradox of the skin–providing protection yet also recording our pain. The illumination of these forms literally “brings light” to their plights, while also expressing tranquility and hopefulness. However, like the paradox of skin, the aesthetically captivating light also blinds us from the disturbing nature of these figures. This collection of work ultimately expresses the contradictory and transient experiences of humanity, balancing between order and chaos. 

As Ashtavakra Gita says,

“All things arise,

Suffer change,

And pass away.

 

This is their nature.

 

When you know this,

Nothing perturbs you,

Nothing hurts you.

 

You become still.”

  • Somewhere Between Chaos and Silence
    Somewhere Between Chaos and Silence

    Somewhere Between Chaos and Silence, (Solo Exhibition installation view), (8 x 12 feet), Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD, 2022

  • Rising
    Rising

    Rising, 2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (32, 14, 14 inches)

  • Rising
    Rising

    Rising, 2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (32, 14, 14 inches)

  • Rising
    Rising

    Rising, 2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (32, 14, 14 inches)

  • Revealing
    Revealing

    Revealing, 2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (28, 16, 15 inches)

  • Revealing
    Revealing

    Revealing, 2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (28, 16, 15 inches)

  • Hiding
    Hiding

    Hiding, 2022, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, gas-firing, (22, 14, 16 inches)

  • Something's Not Right
    Something's Not Right

    Something's Not Right, 2021, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, electric-firing, (6, 8, 10 inches)

  • Something's Not Right
    Something's Not Right

    Something's Not Right, 2021, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, electric-firing, (6, 8, 10 inches)

  • Something's Not Right
    Something's Not Right

    Something's Not Right, 2021, stoneware and porcelain, internal LED components, electric-firing, (6, 8, 10 inches)

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