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Kirsten Stingle’s use of a bundt pan drew me in, the pan now a skirt for her ceramic torsos. Maybe the whimsy made me look, but it is Stingle’s ability to tell a story through the sculptural details that held my interest. She mixes ceramics and found objects to create narrative figures, drawing on her background in theater to help the stories unfold.
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Although Abigail Connell uses a variety of disparate materials, her winning collection of pendants, bracelets and earrings is well executed and quite lovely. Her website boasts nine different collections – each one a cohesive body of work that stands out on its own. Connell seems to have an innate ability to strike just the right combination of materials from a growing list that includes sterling silver, 23 karat gold leaf, freshwater pearls, polymer clay, resin, dirt, flower petals and stamens, grass, rubber, bronze, steel, copper, plastic and rubies.
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Jessica Drenk likes to experiment with materials – coffee filters, cosmetic pads, PVC pipe, cotton balls, toothpicks, books. Drenk looks for man-made materials that can be manipulated to simulate patterns found in nature. She gathers ordinary materials, distorts their shape, adds fire, wax or porcelain slip and pushes them well past their intended use, creating provocative new forms.
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