Carol Long

LOCATION: Plinth Gallery - 3520 Brighton Blvd

CATEGORIES: Art Events | First Fridays

UPCOMING DATE AND TIME:

• Fri, Feb 7, 2025 - Sat, Mar 22, 2025  

Kansas-based ceramic artist Carol Long uses both human and animal imagery on her forms. Currently she uses a white mid-temperature clay body fired to 2118 degrees or cone 5 in oxidation.

Pieces are made by a variety of methods such as throwing, slab work, extrusions, casting, and hand building. Decorating with pulled handles, attached multiple pieces, textured with presses, slip trailing, stains and glazes. The works included in this exhibition are studies in fitting surface decoration to 3 dimensional shapes.

Born in 1965, Carol Long was raised on a farm in Stafford County, Kansas. The family farm, having been homesteaded in the 1880's, had by the time of her childhood, matured with trees and a thick shelter belt. In these wooded areas Carol explored and found a connection with nature developing an appreciation of plant and animal life. “I aspire to use human and animal images to enhance the form. Contorting the human figure is more of a struggle than of animals. A limitation of my mind that I will be addressing is working to free and stretch human images. Replacing accuracy with spontaneity. With joy, whimsy and beauty as my goal, my work develops as I experiment with new ways of expressing these qualities of my surroundings.”

Carol Long’s exhibition opens at Plinth Gallery on Friday, February 7th from 6pm to 9pm and will be on view until Saturday March 21st. For further information please contact the gallery 303 295-0717 or email gallery@plinthgallery.com.