Elisabeth Ross
"O Is For The Way You Look At Me"

April 26 - May 16, 2025

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About the Artist​

Elisabeth Ross, a Berkeley based artist, has been making sewn objects, monotypes, paintings, and collages her entire life. Her first memory of making things was cutting long strips of paper from the rolls her father brought home from his work at the paper mill. Her approach to creating, as well as her experience working in nonprofits, printing, tech, and interior design, prepared her to become a full time ceramic artist three years ago.

 

Artist Statement
My current project, O Is For The Way You Look At Me, explores modular clay forms built and assembled with minimal intervention. This work is inspired by my fascination with the silo and funnel forms that comprise the factories in the industrial zone at Berkeley’s western edge. Interesting in their own right, these structures were built to make and manipulate other things.

These functional forms jump out each time I walk past. To translate them to clay, I cut the components from thin slabs which have been rolled out between two pieces of painter’s canvas. My clay slabs can then be pressed, wrapped, draped, and stacked. The vessels stand, openings toward the sky.

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