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"Nancy
Pirri is inspired by women… their beauty, their movement, especially their
shapes and silhouettes. She sculpts women from clay that evoke lost histories
and mythic pasts. Focusing on traditional classical female forms, Pirri brings
the curvaceous nature of the female body forward, creating works that are both
sensual and enticing. The artist uses a variety of thickly applied glazes with
rough and uneven textures. The forms are sometimes truncated and given torn
edges and distressed surfaces to create a sense of rawness and antiquity. Pirri
references the sculptural vernacular of many disparate cultures in her worldly
women. Evoking the past through the uses of fragmented forms and rich surfaces,
the women are vaulted into archetypes of noble strength and timeless beauty,
like the venerated icons of a goddess cult, or portrayals of a long-lost empress-queen.
Ceramic is a medium paradoxically having both seeming fragility as well as a
lasting durability that can outlive the cultures that produce it. By harkening
to the forms of the past, Nancy Pirri gives her own work the durable strength
and the regal power of the best examples of classical sculptures." ~ Jason
Messinger, Curator |
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