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Jan 22, 2025
Trained as a painter, Jennifer Rochlin took up ceramics as a way to expand her painting practice into three dimensions. Rochlin uses terra cotta clay to handbuild vessels in coil and slab methods, creating familiar forms that echo the long history of ceramics. Undulating with dents and bulges, Rochlin’s vessels reject direct homage, however, in favor of suggesting the unpredictable, beautiful variance of human bodies: these are not production pots but are something apart, individual and free. Her brushy, expressive gestures in underglaze and glaze reside both comfortably and in contrast to the sgraffito drawing method she also employs. Ranging from Botticelli’s Venus to Wonder Woman to P22 (the mountain lion made famous by living near the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park), the images on Rochlin’s vessels document the ongoing narrative of her life but also point to the depth and breadth of time and history of which we are all a part.
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