In my ceramic paintings I explore how changing light interacts with color as it falls across a hand-built surface. I piece the clay together, clump by clump, in a process of repetitive mark-making. As the clay dries edges warp, forming irregular boundaries. I then apply oil paint to the ceramic surfaces, setting the forms aglow in undulating fields of matte pigment. Painted in daylight hours in layered compressions of time, each structure becomes a distillation of landscapes, evoking memories of color and qualities of light.
Marla Sweitzer (b. 1989 Sarasota, FL) received her MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2020 and a BA from Centre College in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Warping the Distances, Art Space Gallery (Fresno), Sight Lines, Housewright Gallery (Seattle) and ground matter, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture (Knoxville). Recent group exhibitions include Innocent Pleasures Suit Me, Warbling Collective (London) and Promises, Jason McCoy Gallery (NYC). She lives and works in Fresno, CA.
masweitzer [at] gmail [dot] com
@marlasweitzer
Marla Sweitzer (b. 1989 Sarasota, FL) received her MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2020 and a BA from Centre College in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Warping the Distances, Art Space Gallery (Fresno), Sight Lines, Housewright Gallery (Seattle) and ground matter, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture (Knoxville). Recent group exhibitions include Innocent Pleasures Suit Me, Warbling Collective (London) and Promises, Jason McCoy Gallery (NYC). She lives and works in Fresno, CA.
masweitzer [at] gmail [dot] com
@marlasweitzer