Radius Clayworks is tremendously honored to present new works by two esteemed Seattle-based artists: Carol Gouthro & Patti Warashina. Gouthro's colorful and expressive biomorphic sculptures celebrate the potency of transformation—both in nature and in ceramics. Warashina's delightful, socially charged, always surprising figurative sculptures speak to the absurdity and foibles of human behavior. Together their work sings in tribute to art's power and poignancy.

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These works will be available for pick up or shipping the week after October 23rd.

ARTIST STATEMENT

At the core of my ceramic work is the vessel and its many associations including nourishment, ripening, sexuality, and transformation. Over the past 20 years my vessels have slowly evolved into sculptural biomorphic forms. I am drawn to ornament, embellishment, color and pattern, and I have a strong interest in detail and minutiae. I remain ever enticed by the transformative nature of ceramic surfaces, fascinated and challenged by the process that takes place when clay and glazes are fired in a kiln. When starting a new piece I often find myself responding to something visual, something that captivates me—a seed or flower petal—or something in my tool drawer, or one of my many clay studies, pieces of inspirational detritus on my studio shelves.

I'm also seduced and inspired by botanical nomenclature, the names and language of plants, words like resupinusc and flammeus. In my Aurlia gouthroii series I have invented a genus of plants (Aurlia) that I named after myself, gouthroii, the plant discoverer. Anthozoa, a word used to describe sea anemones, literally means “flower animal,” and I became fascinated with the idea of flower animals, which led to my Portal series, Anthozoa Fulfillment and Anthozoa Enticement.

I never have any intent to reproduce or replicate anything that I’ve seen—only in abstracting and translating my stimuli and feelings into a tangible, evocative object.

— Carol Gouthro