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Hole Boxes
by Andrew Dewitt

  

Satin and gloss glazed porcelain
Dimensions: 3 inches high

  
 


Turquoise box
$120


  


Black box
$130


  

Eggshell white box
$120


  


Andrew DeWitt began working in ceramic sculpture in his home state of Florida. He made only sculpture until he moved to San Francisco in 1990 and joined a community of functional potters, where he came to appreciate the ways that functional work could be enjoyed intimately in everyday life. He made the unexpected realization that usable pottery is a sculptural medium where pieces are meant to be handled and touched, and he was drawn to the power of texture. Andrew has become interested in exploring complex systems, represented through texture, and larger forms on which this patterning and mutation plays out. Pieces like these are generally about the tension between pattern/change, growth/decay and abstraction/representation.

Andrew DeWitt creates vessels that appear as other worldly organisms; both mysterious and oddly plausible. Their surfaces are highly textured with schematic patterns of bubbles, pocks, tubes and ruts. These interrelated designs suggest the logic of internal systems much like that of living organisms, even though their patterning and form borrow as much from Nuevo, Deco and Rococo styles as from any specific plant or animal. The final culmination of these varied influences display a seductive naturalism abstracted into fantastic new forms.

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