In her installation, Cathy Wilkes shows the newest edition to her ongoing series of installations, in which she incorporates materials she has been collecting for over twenty five years. In her pieces, Wilkes arranges her found materials to suggest small narratives, which together show the moments of vulnerability, transformation, and creation in an artist's process. The found objects are inevitably stripped of their original purpose in their introduction to the series. In her essay Ceramics and Painting: an Expanded Field of Inquiry, Veronika Horlik discusses a cross-section of modern ceramics she calls "pottery stripped of function." Like may of the objects in Wilkes' installation, works that fall into this category typically use pottery as a means to an end, often stripping it of the ability to contain and be used in a traditional sense.
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