Stavanger, Norway
The clay sculptures and pencil drawings of Kristin Velle-George are in no way representational, but yet they are incredibly familiar. Associations abound, all of them organic and natural. “Filum,” a fascinating graphite composition, fills the page with thousands of intricate lines that recall animal fur but also the tender striped insides of a flower. The diminutive “Albus,” intuitively shaped from stoneware and left grittily unglazed, features a surface alternatively rough, smooth, and pocked with tiny holes, like follicles or pores or the inside of a bone. “Fumus,” a larger stoneware piece colored in places with green oxides, has this boniness, too, but also decorative patches that conjure fish scales and swirling smoke. On a macro level, these three artworks by Velle-George are marvelously alien; on a micro level, in their details, they reveal themselves to be firmly of this realm.
—Lori Waxman, March 18, 1:57 PM