Addison Wolff

Addison Wolff’s practice explores self-identity and sexuality through the creation of hand-built ceramic sculptures rendered in expressive broken color, recording natural and urban environments, time, and place. Utilizing slab-coil ceramic construction and acquiescing to material entropy and gravity, these objects are an amalgamation of large tubes emphasizing the void of the mass. Employing queer aesthetics and materials (e.g., 501 jeans, hankies), along with the hand of the maker in the layering of textural synthetic polymer paints, these bisque-fired ceramic objects act as a palimpsest, recording the evolution of an individual’s journey to authenticity. Overall, his work seeks to create a dialogue on transformation, transcendence, fluidity, time, and cultural objects—disturbing personal perception while emphasizing the interiority of oneself. These pieces synthesize contradictory elements of mass and space; stasis and flux; painting and sculpture; art and craft; distinct and optical color; light and shadow.

Wolff received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (2010). Wolff’s practice explores issues of self-identity, sexuality, and interiority. Themes of transformation, transcendence, time, and fluidity are explored through non-objective compositions of broken color, collage, layering, erasure, and optical effects, on canvas and hand-built, hollow ceramic forms. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Addison Wolff,” The Frank C. Ortis Gallery, Pembroke Pines, Florida, (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: “Young, Fresh, Different | Miami,” Zilberman Gallery, Miami, Florida, (2024); “South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition,” MOCA North Miami, North Miami, Florida, (2023); “Juried National VII” Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana, (2023); “Lush 2,” Lighthouse Arts Center, Tequesta, Florida, (2022); “Mes del Orgullo Gay,” Mexican Cultural Institute, Miami, Florida, (2022). Wolff has received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award (2022), Broward County Cultural Division, Artist Innovation Grant (2023), Artist Support Grant (2022). They have works in the Broward County Cultural Division and Boca Raton Innovation Center collections.