Addison Wolff explores self-identity, sexuality, and interior life through hand-built ceramic sculptures and layered paintings. His practice is grounded in transformation—both physical and emotional—drawing from the fluidity of personal experience. Through expressive, broken color, he references natural and urban environments, capturing fleeting moments in time and place. Queer aesthetics are central to his work: with bold hues, shimmering surfaces, and textures reminiscent of disco balls, Wolff applies synthetic polymer paint in thick, tactile layers. These shifting surfaces, reflecting the complexity of becoming and belonging.
In his ceramic work, Wolff uses slab-coil construction, allowing the clay—and the unpredictable forces of gravity—to guide the final form. The material’s innate behavior is embraced, resulting in sculptures that feel alive and responsive. Many of his forms include a large hollow tube, symbolizing a void or passageway—a gesture toward movement, opening, or transformation. Positioned at the intersection of painting and sculpture, these bisque-fired works create a visual and conceptual tension between mass and space, stillness and movement, light and shadow. Each object becomes a kind of personal archive—marking shifts in identity, presence, and time.
Wolff’s paintings extend these ideas into two dimensions, using the canvas as a site of layering, erasure, and excavation. His linear mark-making—built up through stacked lines and bands of color—reveals both the visible present and the history underneath. The interplay of past and present, surface and background, mirrors the evolving nature of selfhood. By layering and partially obscuring what came before, he evokes how personal identity is continually shaped by memory, revision, and reinvention.
Each painting is framed with raised textures made from synthetic polymer and sand, applied with spackle knives and custom stencils. These impasto borders add a sculptural dimension, further blurring the line between object and image. Through the interplay of graphic foregrounds and linear backgrounds, Wolff creates visual environments that hold the same tension seen in his ceramics—between stasis and flux, clarity and ambiguity, past and present.
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.
Baker—Hall is a contemporary art gallery founded by Amanda Baker—Hall in 2024. It is the successor to her previous project, Club Gallery. The gallery aims to promote emerging and mid-career artists through a fresh curatorial approach, while also offering comprehensive art advisory services. Baker—Hall specializes in painting and sculpture across narrative and non-objective styles, with a focus on collaborating with private collectors and prominent corporate institutions. The gallery boasts a robust exhibition schedule, featuring a minimum of eight rotating exhibitions each year.
Baker—Hall is a proud member of NADA.
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