Clay attracts artists who respond to its physicality—a hugely malleable, fluid material that through fire becomes fixed.  The artists in this exhibition celebrate this contradiction—honoring the tension between the opposing forces of stability and instability, motion and stasis, permanence and temporality. Drawing, exploding, elongating, puncturing, these artists extend the boundaries of what clay can do and how it has traditionally been presented.  They also employ other mediums and materials to exercise their artistic muscles.

The exhibition Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay is on view July 10-September 18, 2015.