Z. Cecilia Lu
Body Ajar holds new sculpture and ceramics that explore the body as an assemblage of memories, environments, medicines, and desires; as contingent and dynamic; as a site for healing, regeneration, death, and decay. Traces of the body reverberate, meeting the echoes of other incantations — of ancient Chinese cooking vessels and cast jujube dates, cradled by clay and paper pulp, descendents of transformed earth. Body Ajar asks about possibility — and of what becomes through the cracks, holes, fissures, and pores.
Opening reception: April 19, 6-8
Artist Event with Vessel Activity:
May 10, 1-4 PM
Raku Firing Event: June 2, 10AM-2PM
Open hours with the artist:
Saturday, May 11 & 25, 1-4PM
Other times by appointment
100 Montessori Pl
Rensselaer, NY
Z. Cecilia Lu is a Chinese-American artist based in New York. Her art practice engages multi-generational and familial histories in the context of mourning and non-western healing practices.
She has commenced solo undertakings/shows at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY) and participated in group shows in Upstate NY and NYC. She was artist-in-residence at Monson Arts Center (Monson, ME), Jingdezhen Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), Woodstock Byrdcliffe (Woodstock, NY), and has received grants from The Northern Clay Center and Cornell University.