Crystalline Galaxy is an installation featuring over 400 small "geodes" slipcast from porcelain and glazed with a crystalline ceramic glaze developed by the artist. During the firing process, the glaze mimics geologic forces, and as it cools from over 2300°F, it forms crystals randomly across the surface. Inspired by the Milky Way, this installation reflects the artist's childhood memories of the night sky in West Texas.
Photo Credit: Teresa Rafidi
Detail of Crystalline Galaxy:
Crystalline Galaxy is an installation featuring over 400 small "geodes" slipcast from porcelain and glazed with a crystalline ceramic glaze developed by the artist. During the firing process, the glaze mimics geologic forces, and as it cools from over 2300°F, it forms crystals randomly across the surface. Inspired by the Milky Way, this installation reflects the artist's childhood memories of the night sky in West Texas.
photo credit: Teresa Rafidi
This site-specific installation was created for the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, Florida in November, 2019
Materials: Nylon cord and porcelain
Materials:
Porcelain, nylon cord, hand-dyed cactus fiber
Flight of the Polychromatic Zooids
Media: Colored Porcelain, Stainless Steel,
Original music composition by David Thompson
video of artwork and music: https://youtu.be/BtkPGLPQphw
2019-2020
Statement:
“My 15-year exploration of biology began with an interest in the human form and has evolved into studies of invasive environments and underwater creatures. The ocean is fascinating because it is still vastly unexplored. I associate underwater worlds with the subconscious. The zooids are organisms ripe with metaphor because of their colonial animal status. The fact that they are individual clones operating as one animal make them one and many at the same time and prompt philosophical questions about the collective subconscious, hive mind, and cognitive dissonance
Materials:
Reed, porcelain, hand-dyed xactus fiber
Materials:
Dyed linen thread, porcelain, fibers
Materials: nylon cord and black porcelain
Sculpture and model, Burden 2020 reflects on the physical and emotional weight of 2020.
Photograph
Colored Porcelain, linen, cotton
Colored Porcelain, cobalt, nylon thread. Woven on a backstrap loom.
1,000 porcelain tentacles. This installation represents one year of work. Each tentacle was created by hand and no two are alike.
Materials: colored porcelain, linen thread woven on a 4-harnes loom.
Colored Porcelain, stainless steel, linen
Burden 2020
Colored Porcelain, Linen, Stainless steel.
Burden 2020 is a sculpture and photograph from Jen Rose’s Little Monster series. Objects in this series are ambiguous forms made from colored porcelain and linen fibers. The Little Monsters are unruly and uncontained sculptures that channel the artist’s feelings about the tumultuous year of 2020. Burden 2020 was designed with an awareness of the model’s skin tone and executed in shades of pink and white porcelain. The distinction between body and sculpture is blurred as the she lifts the sculpture to shoulder the weight of a psychic and physical growth.
Media: colored porcelain, black plaster
Year: 2020
Oasis
Colored Porcelain
40”x40”x4”
2500 pieces
An “Oasis” is a collection of hollow porcelain cones that collect a few drops of rain or sprinkler water for thirsty bees as they go about their daily chores. Each cone is called a “bee cup”. This oasis is about five-feet across and contains 1800 bee cups.
Porcelain, stainless steel rope
Porcelain, Stainless steel rope
Porcelain, Stainless steel rope, acrylic paint
2019
Porcelain. Each tube is rolled by hand.
1,000 porcelain tentacles. This installation represents one year of work. Each tentacle was created by hand and no two are alike. They have been exhibited at Brookhaven College, Alaskan Robotics Gallery in Juneau, Alaska, and at the Carneal Simmons Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Glazed Porcelain, LED
Glazed Porcelain, LED
36”h x 6”w Gallery lights on/off
Glazed porcelain
Glazed porcelain, stainless steel rope
Glazed porcelain
10”w x 47”h
Glazed Porcelain, stainless steel rope
5.5”w x 8”h x 7”d
Glazed porcelain, stainless steel rope
6”w x 10”h x 7”d
Glazed Porcelain
19”h x 14”w
Black porcelain, enamel, flocking, wood.
1”w x 10”h x 5”d
Black Porcelain, enamel, flocking
Black porcelain, enamel, flocking 37”w x 17”h
Porcelain with palladium and blue underglaze.
Porcelain with palladium and blue underglaze.