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.