My ceramic paintings engage with how light illuminates the subtleties of color and surface. I press pieces of clay together in an unfolding process of repetitive mark-making. Embracing the organic imperfections and poetic irregularities of the material, edges warp as the clay dries. Within the irregular boundaries of the fired ceramic planes, I apply oil paint — setting the surfaces aglow in undulating fields of matte pigment. Painted during daylight hours in layered compressions of time, the ceramic paintings recall memories of color and qualities of light. Oscillating between walled forms and curved fields — the ceramic paintings blur the distinction between architecture and landscape.​

Marla Sweitzer (b. Sarasota, FL, USA) lives and works in Fresno.

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