https://earthenclay.net earthen clay Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:16:18 +0000 https://earthenclay.net en https://earthenclay.net/news Thu, 14 Aug 2025 02:48:00 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/news LITTLE BIRDS &amp; Our Daily PrayersMay 7-June 28 2026 The Locker Room is pleased to present Little Birds and Our Daily Prayers, a group show co-curated with Cameron Barker, opening in May and running through Pride Month, accompanied by a series of public programs. Faygeleh, in Yiddish, means "little bird," and has historically been used as a slur for "girly" boys. This exhibition imagines a reclamation of the term—birds, after all, possess an extraordinary ability to find their flock even in dire conditions. Girly boys, boyly girls, and all our siblings who do not fit—we sing a similar song and we listen. We answer one another's prayers. Bringing together thirteen artists of various backgrounds and ages, the exhibition moves beyond queerness as identity and toward queerness as essence—a divine energy that animates mundane life, irrepressible and embodied, swishing our hips and lisping our lips. The twenty-two works on view are largely moody monochromes or limited color palettes, signifying a celebratory muddying that occurs with perseverance. Rites, traditions, and rituals are often associated with organized religion, but queerness is a language so ancient that religion can only attempt to mimic its cadence. Our rites are counted in bumps in the road beneath motorbikes, in sweat sacraments made on dark dance floors, in daily shacharit enacted through the wettest application of lip gloss imaginable.The Locker Room2 Church St, NY, NY 10013 https://www.thelockerroom.nyc/up-next-little-birds Triangle Projects Presents! Jan 9, 2026 - Feb 7, 2026North Loop West, Los Angeles, CA <img width="828" height="549" width_o="828" height_o="549" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d691147320dce9a16afbb2b401cbc8a75fe6d7d96f62399dc36653477979b75/IMG_8485.jpg" data-mid="243668430" border="0" data-scale="41" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/828/i/6d691147320dce9a16afbb2b401cbc8a75fe6d7d96f62399dc36653477979b75/IMG_8485.jpg" />North Loop West is delighted to announce Triangle Projects Presents!—a group exhibition co-organized by the gallery and Los Angeles-born curatorial venture, Triangle Projects, founded by artist Rebecca Shippee. The show brings together nearly 40 artists from four generations whose practices span painting, installation, video, sculpture, and photography, working in Los Angeles, Chicago, Mexico City, New York, and beyond. Triangle Projects began in a one-hundred-square-foot room under the stairs in a studio building in downtown LA. Twelve solo exhibitions came to life in this unconventional space from April 2022 to March 2023, featuring artists including Aryana Minai, Angela Chen, Jenny Gagalka, Patrick-Earl Barnes, Carly Sheehan, Jacob Lenc, Pallavi Sen, Jayden Breen-Greco, Sophie Harpo, Eve Axness, Bahareh Khoshooee, and E. Saffronia Downing. https://brooklynrail.org/2025/09/artseen/earthen-clay-as-the-apple-disappears-into-water-and-sweetness-in-our-bodies/Earthen Clay: As the apple disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies By Tony Bluestone <img width="2028" height="852" width_o="2028" height_o="852" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ce25478654bffb4e6f5bef638d5094c567e893a8b8f0efc714f619485442a5a/Screenshot-2025-10-02-at-8.30.53PM.png" data-mid="238963027" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ce25478654bffb4e6f5bef638d5094c567e893a8b8f0efc714f619485442a5a/Screenshot-2025-10-02-at-8.30.53PM.png" /><img width="1370" height="1718" width_o="1370" height_o="1718" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d986ca04e3956f6436e1d74375fa8cce81b5abe09acb3a64dfe38583c8cd3c7/Screenshot-2025-10-02-at-8.30.34PM.png" data-mid="238963026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0d986ca04e3956f6436e1d74375fa8cce81b5abe09acb3a64dfe38583c8cd3c7/Screenshot-2025-10-02-at-8.30.34PM.png" /> Earthen Clay, Slow Strip, 2023 . Italian leather purse, marble dust, photographs, golf balls, lantern fly in paper box with resin, wooden spool, bay laurel leaf, goldenrod dyed cotton string, gold earring, chalk pastel, acrylic, silicone, 20 × 30 inches.. Photo credit: Pat Garcia.As The Apple Disappears Into Water And Sweetness In Our Bodies Montserrat Gallery,&nbsp;August 19 - September 27Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA <img width="2727" height="4171" width_o="2727" height_o="4171" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5eae86ae1e29223adad04fe8936cc396e1778c59eacd8a0f1fb6b799f7a7f67/earthen-clay-apple-disappears-color.jpg" data-mid="237015389" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5eae86ae1e29223adad04fe8936cc396e1778c59eacd8a0f1fb6b799f7a7f67/earthen-clay-apple-disappears-color.jpg" /> As the apple disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies, Earthen Clay’s first solo exhibition in Massachusetts, includes paintings and sculptures made in the last two years. Clay’s site-responsive installation for the Montserrat Gallery is concerned with the space that is generated from the proximity of beings and objects and the experiences that unfold from these encounters. Folds, stacks, and stains hold embedded material and ask for a prolonged looking across unstable ground. Wooden scaffolding hold, fix and bind, or allow for spaces to exist within fragments of exuberant color and texture that hold personal meaning. https://earthenclay.net/2024 Tue, 28 May 2024 22:14:26 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/2024 And The Forms Which Linger, Humming In Our Ears organized by Sophy Naess and Kari Rittenbachwith the 2024 painting and printmaking cohortJanuary 20-30 2024Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven CT <img width="5397" height="8095" width_o="5397" height_o="8095" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fc25d2cc533de3dac6831284280dd7de3fdb5f3c3fa7e93a68e9e1059b88d88/thesis_zishan_2024-copy.jpg" data-mid="211862543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fc25d2cc533de3dac6831284280dd7de3fdb5f3c3fa7e93a68e9e1059b88d88/thesis_zishan_2024-copy.jpg" /> we slip away like snakes leaving only the shedded skin, installation image <img width="5053" height="8136" width_o="5053" height_o="8136" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/070ed5a2f23f84a8e4a8dc0ab2635db6467e3ff581352d8a814719251a92d6a8/DSC_3871-Zeshan.jpg" data-mid="211863411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/070ed5a2f23f84a8e4a8dc0ab2635db6467e3ff581352d8a814719251a92d6a8/DSC_3871-Zeshan.jpg" /> Outside The Dark Pink Air, 2024, wood, plaster, cotton thread dyed with goldenrod, metal watering can, used tow strap, glass, mirror, rhinestone necklace, clips, plastic picture frame, laser print fragment, silicone, glitter, acrylic, gesso 12’ x 2’ x 2’ <img width="1823" height="2536" width_o="1823" height_o="2536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4cf16a1db2f0b0afe7d5a7ae932a9ad32b5ca89c2a48ddd06a9856c114227a0d/DSC_3871-Zeshan-copy.jpg" data-mid="211863423" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4cf16a1db2f0b0afe7d5a7ae932a9ad32b5ca89c2a48ddd06a9856c114227a0d/DSC_3871-Zeshan-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2234" height="2627" width_o="2234" height_o="2627" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/749d50d816c49d7944d6b55be81ca5e6c22c5883584d7a76781bf01f40dbba98/DSC_3871-Zeshan-copy2.jpg" data-mid="211863425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/749d50d816c49d7944d6b55be81ca5e6c22c5883584d7a76781bf01f40dbba98/DSC_3871-Zeshan-copy2.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35703fc361172a2cb4609f50aa8cf43dab7b6bb8a6a8721be9b7a93283307913/clay_thesisinstall_installationdetail1.jpg" data-mid="211863415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35703fc361172a2cb4609f50aa8cf43dab7b6bb8a6a8721be9b7a93283307913/clay_thesisinstall_installationdetail1.jpg" /> <img width="4810" height="7422" width_o="4810" height_o="7422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61103c09ccea6ddd5fe57c38c37d01554b41b6e6d6f5b2618c01efc893dd622f/DSC_3880-Zeshan.jpg" data-mid="211863410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61103c09ccea6ddd5fe57c38c37d01554b41b6e6d6f5b2618c01efc893dd622f/DSC_3880-Zeshan.jpg" /> Parting Folds of The Sun (softly beating), 2023, painted wooden curtain rod in plastic cover, acrylic, milkweed leaves, lead, silicone, butterfly brooch, tulle, 10’ x 6” <img width="2038" height="2654" width_o="2038" height_o="2654" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e3aa95650f829144c241320c94f06021b24aeebf885deb83f6c7b367c03d69f/DSC_3881-Zeshan-copy.jpg" data-mid="211863427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6e3aa95650f829144c241320c94f06021b24aeebf885deb83f6c7b367c03d69f/DSC_3881-Zeshan-copy.jpg" /> <img width="5331" height="8098" width_o="5331" height_o="8098" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e67d720232c8f009c3378e9d2278e8939f771c4b4e1049f0b02ebeae07edf10e/DSC_3878-Zeshan.jpg" data-mid="211863409" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e67d720232c8f009c3378e9d2278e8939f771c4b4e1049f0b02ebeae07edf10e/DSC_3878-Zeshan.jpg" /> <img width="1783" height="2463" width_o="1783" height_o="2463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88c5cff0ddb3a6f9650c173aa2e5ed5ecccb3d95d6112a24f286badc2690ea99/DSC_3878-Zeshan-copy.jpg" data-mid="211863426" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88c5cff0ddb3a6f9650c173aa2e5ed5ecccb3d95d6112a24f286badc2690ea99/DSC_3878-Zeshan-copy.jpg" /> Event Horizon, 2024, fabric, gesso, acrylic, metal, nails, 3” x 24” 2” <img width="4675" height="7158" width_o="4675" height_o="7158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/984d4225ec0d7a1bdb7ad7539055a1daa76ca9e3c4980c876c11ab3f6fe2edb1/DSC_3866-Zeshan.jpg" data-mid="211863408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/984d4225ec0d7a1bdb7ad7539055a1daa76ca9e3c4980c876c11ab3f6fe2edb1/DSC_3866-Zeshan.jpg" /> <img width="5504" height="7898" width_o="5504" height_o="7898" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0800949da0b46a4d7c5033887ae7346ed501a0ebe0bdee71e7f6d137efe8a1cc/DSC_3858-Zeshan.jpg" data-mid="211863412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0800949da0b46a4d7c5033887ae7346ed501a0ebe0bdee71e7f6d137efe8a1cc/DSC_3858-Zeshan.jpg" /> Breathwood Outhouse, 2024, wood, plaster, vinyl purse, egg tempera, found magazine clipping from the shitter, binder clip, acrylic, gesso, silicone, fabric, gift of pewter from E.R.’s studio, dimensions variable ( 10’ x 3’ x 4’) <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74d21f1c47a14ac3a6b051cb1fc66157625f79200a027b90499af38f34ddf47f/clay_thesisinstall_yellowpursedetail1.jpg" data-mid="211863416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74d21f1c47a14ac3a6b051cb1fc66157625f79200a027b90499af38f34ddf47f/clay_thesisinstall_yellowpursedetail1.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c109ff4d7a7aaff3f83bd0ba78d8404183717672b7363fe27f72e564a8cbe8d/clay_thesisinstall_yellowpursedetail2.jpg" data-mid="211863417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c109ff4d7a7aaff3f83bd0ba78d8404183717672b7363fe27f72e564a8cbe8d/clay_thesisinstall_yellowpursedetail2.jpg" /> <img width="3484" height="2569" width_o="3484" height_o="2569" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c54f033b7f8c76b1f26000783832588ff557af971c2064d9297914768448cd0/DSC_3863-Zeshan-copy.jpg" data-mid="211863422" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c54f033b7f8c76b1f26000783832588ff557af971c2064d9297914768448cd0/DSC_3863-Zeshan-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4902" height="7478" width_o="4902" height_o="7478" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/689f46f27836a06f553a40188bdea3efa5ab27cdcf99aa512550f47babdab659/DSC_3847-Zeshan.jpg" data-mid="211863413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/689f46f27836a06f553a40188bdea3efa5ab27cdcf99aa512550f47babdab659/DSC_3847-Zeshan.jpg" /> We Slip Away Like Snakes Leaving Only The Shedded Skin, 2024, metal, wood, plaster, drywall mesh, acrylic, gesso, cotton thread dyed with acorns and goldenrod, photograph, milkweed seeds and pods, silicone mold scrap from E.R.’s studio, paper, water, glass, 9’ x 3’ x 3’ <img width="2370" height="1798" width_o="2370" height_o="1798" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/446fc1bb04e6c1961451fdd24d9c36aaac8633431e72698aa06ab434315ccaca/DSC_3847-Zeshan-copy2.jpg" data-mid="211863420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/446fc1bb04e6c1961451fdd24d9c36aaac8633431e72698aa06ab434315ccaca/DSC_3847-Zeshan-copy2.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1e1972e315077d308fdd3d2d40320a0ffe67ad9339ad175b90641575039502f/_MG_0640.jpg" data-mid="211863414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1e1972e315077d308fdd3d2d40320a0ffe67ad9339ad175b90641575039502f/_MG_0640.jpg" /> <img width="2023" height="3093" width_o="2023" height_o="3093" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5ac4b56964c9db8c540a7182740c25062062f4806f195047cf7702500cb8c58/DSC_3847-Zeshan-copy.jpg" data-mid="211863419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5ac4b56964c9db8c540a7182740c25062062f4806f195047cf7702500cb8c58/DSC_3847-Zeshan-copy.jpg" /> photos by Zeshan Ahmed&nbsp; Earthen Clay’s Cooperative Architectures&nbsp; text by artist and writer Emily Christine Velez Nelms Linear assemblages defy gravity, and beam as they hold one another, containing worlds ever in flux, defined by an ethics they built for themselves. Earthen Clay’s cooperative architectures provide us glimpses into the pleasures of material and lived relationality. Neither exclusively sculptural nor relegated to pigmentation, the beginning of one set of assembled decisions is the ending of another. Here we are the spectator of a complex orchestra of physicality, containing time, sweat, earnest organic material, essence, and glitter. Tended to by an intentional touch, pewter, glass, silicone, plaster, milkweed, plastic, and tulle disrupt nomenclatures of Western physics and organized systems. An expansive abstraction of revived lives and afterlives, Clay welcomes us to view the edge of an eclipse, the Parting Folds of The Sun (softly beating). Non-precarious, a choreography of endless iterations diffuses disciplinary bounds, unveiling to us the joys located in the phenomenology of living. Closely related to their local ecology, their knowledges are constructed by the multitudes and plasticities of their ever expanding capacities to take various and unexpected forms. Clay tenderly ushers in moments long passed, but ever recurring, as spectral to the alchemy of care and generous holding, in a world predicated on extraction of every kind. We Slip Away Like Snakes Leaving Only The Shedded Skin. Wrought with memory and traces of an emotional economy that practices new ontologies of coexistence, these scaffolds of transcendence are not static, but ever assemblable. Their aftermath elucidates new structural skins, systems that bear witness to their departure from enterprise toward an embrace of infinite optimisms. Harkening us to states of potentiality, we are invited to meet ourselves, our own associative impulses, and perhaps release self imposed confines of our realitie https://earthenclay.net/2023 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:36:30 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/2023 following along with the movements and patterns of milkweed, fall 2023 at Yale School of Art <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc81c25cc2f77882e2ce13c6de25c8745505c36b5488ab96385971eb47befce6/earthen_clay_thesisimage24.jpg" data-mid="199247180" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc81c25cc2f77882e2ce13c6de25c8745505c36b5488ab96385971eb47befce6/earthen_clay_thesisimage24.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/04902f0469780a2eb89d070fb4eddb08f3ee5ae83ef214587c73747c2d61f807/_DSF4519.jpg" data-mid="199247182" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/04902f0469780a2eb89d070fb4eddb08f3ee5ae83ef214587c73747c2d61f807/_DSF4519.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3074" width_o="5000" height_o="3074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76bb584bcbf9e9148dd46ac65725817d6f45edfd92d8f73d1e3b742318549cd3/_DSF4530.jpg" data-mid="199247181" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76bb584bcbf9e9148dd46ac65725817d6f45edfd92d8f73d1e3b742318549cd3/_DSF4530.jpg" /> installation view <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f2c9fb9aae8fa6f93cd04369589286989f943b38cfc733682d1da503881c9e7/_DSF4502.jpg" data-mid="199247189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f2c9fb9aae8fa6f93cd04369589286989f943b38cfc733682d1da503881c9e7/_DSF4502.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4be3dda0784db5e54a5710e129bcb70dfb01597791d94511d8290904c4528220/_DSF4510.jpg" data-mid="199247188" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4be3dda0784db5e54a5710e129bcb70dfb01597791d94511d8290904c4528220/_DSF4510.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df1a98ff9683390aab3ebcc084fdfbe48e8232092c02a786887761ea56095c34/_DSF4462.jpg" data-mid="199247183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df1a98ff9683390aab3ebcc084fdfbe48e8232092c02a786887761ea56095c34/_DSF4462.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fa50d1852acfd7445040f72bc7ff2f361b0fcfbe948d23207b1491f1b128e82/_DSF4470.jpg" data-mid="199247185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fa50d1852acfd7445040f72bc7ff2f361b0fcfbe948d23207b1491f1b128e82/_DSF4470.jpg" /> <img width="3465" height="4294" width_o="3465" height_o="4294" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8ad9ccb4df094b422e097306781af95344d95bbc2e1b204a09859e3c7a2230d/_DSF4467.jpg" data-mid="199247186" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8ad9ccb4df094b422e097306781af95344d95bbc2e1b204a09859e3c7a2230d/_DSF4467.jpg" /> Adonis,&nbsp; 2023 steel, pewter, exercise band, polyester necktie, chalk on paper, acrylic, sand, rhinestones, nylon rope, nails <img width="4019" height="3180" width_o="4019" height_o="3180" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98e5f22bfb78d93f5cd7306d1ed107a350d79f2ef9b5823aa51d20879de5f817/_DSF4455.jpg" data-mid="199247184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98e5f22bfb78d93f5cd7306d1ed107a350d79f2ef9b5823aa51d20879de5f817/_DSF4455.jpg" /> <img width="3214" height="4286" width_o="3214" height_o="4286" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/902712e1a7b5eb339896ea9652e52e4bec8359bd59fccc7deec0c5747131ae66/_DSF4463.jpg" data-mid="199247187" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/902712e1a7b5eb339896ea9652e52e4bec8359bd59fccc7deec0c5747131ae66/_DSF4463.jpg" />Slow Strip 2023 Italian leather purse, marble dust, photographs, golf balls, lantern fly in paper box with resin, wooden spool, bay laurel leaf, goldenrod dyed cotton string, gold earring, chalk pastel, acrylic, silicone, 20” x 30” <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17b9946be80359203af29f04e53cd9cccfe69fa58c19bce603337e15bcc1107f/_DSF4473.jpg" data-mid="199247310" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17b9946be80359203af29f04e53cd9cccfe69fa58c19bce603337e15bcc1107f/_DSF4473.jpg" /> <img width="4594" height="3445" width_o="4594" height_o="3445" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1c8dd6561a66feaa070fb323e5238b2087298d9facc1ae11229d70385cd4061/_DSF4483.jpg" data-mid="199247190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1c8dd6561a66feaa070fb323e5238b2087298d9facc1ae11229d70385cd4061/_DSF4483.jpg" /> <img width="4268" height="3750" width_o="4268" height_o="3750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e734f3cfebae0a184f564cbc03404d10040acdf8b0475dc29def6666c7172add/_DSF4490.jpg" data-mid="199247191" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e734f3cfebae0a184f564cbc03404d10040acdf8b0475dc29def6666c7172add/_DSF4490.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/987ff77cd2371aac3a7284d39e9c8605252e2c1eedbeb154f6131b5f28b5142b/_DSF4479.jpg" data-mid="199247192" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/987ff77cd2371aac3a7284d39e9c8605252e2c1eedbeb154f6131b5f28b5142b/_DSF4479.jpg" /> <img width="3750" height="5000" width_o="3750" height_o="5000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac401029987282f7bf37870f9623497044f7b56dd75907a4e47926dff54b8e0d/_DSF4450.jpg" data-mid="199247193" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac401029987282f7bf37870f9623497044f7b56dd75907a4e47926dff54b8e0d/_DSF4450.jpg" />The above collection of images are from an installation on October 31, 2023 in the pit at Yale School of Art. All photos are by Andina Marie Osorio. https://earthenclay.net/2023-1 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:39:46 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/2023-1 Not This Way RoadSpring 2023 Yale School of Art <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/805d509d39e13b07d0006639fab60e9f93fc8c72f6f98f6ca1569386a8563c8e/earthenpit9.jpg" data-mid="187193880" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/805d509d39e13b07d0006639fab60e9f93fc8c72f6f98f6ca1569386a8563c8e/earthenpit9.jpg" /> We find condoms, wrappers, douche pipets, undecomposed corncobs, and tough citrus rinds wood, plaster, found objects, photocopies, acrylic, wood glue, cotton string dyed with goldenrod 2022 3’ x3’ <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3b82230d0df5cbf1b336bb719cc963cea4acb25aa1ca13ebd3db68e3405130f/earthenpit8.jpg" data-mid="187193881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3b82230d0df5cbf1b336bb719cc963cea4acb25aa1ca13ebd3db68e3405130f/earthenpit8.jpg" />installation view <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aaf91e73ed70eae6457f49f8ba6f80b29617226d53b24edc510f586514c24fc8/Earthen-PIT-8-of-70-copy.jpg" data-mid="187193889" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aaf91e73ed70eae6457f49f8ba6f80b29617226d53b24edc510f586514c24fc8/Earthen-PIT-8-of-70-copy.jpg" /> detail of&nbsp; We find condoms, wrappers, douche pipets, undecomposed corncobs, and tough citrus rinds wood, plaster, found objects, photocopies, acrylic, wood glue, cotton string dyed with goldenrod 2022 3’ x3’ <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c6cadf0a66729e782895b9f181f331fa07040ae42898f59cf6bc26f34ae971d/earthepit4.jpg" data-mid="187193882" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c6cadf0a66729e782895b9f181f331fa07040ae42898f59cf6bc26f34ae971d/earthepit4.jpg" /> Undone 2022&nbsp; found purse and other objects, silicone, acrylic, pigment and inkjet print fragments 10” x 5” <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30264a4c15bb3437ecef4b433c94533a0798864c6d966f7194d560c3399e1eb7/earthenpit7.jpg" data-mid="187193888" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30264a4c15bb3437ecef4b433c94533a0798864c6d966f7194d560c3399e1eb7/earthenpit7.jpg" /><img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e469e019ffccf8399f321049b7b077367d04f306ee0fc673fe4a8c551f130aaa/earthenpit6.jpg" data-mid="187193890" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e469e019ffccf8399f321049b7b077367d04f306ee0fc673fe4a8c551f130aaa/earthenpit6.jpg" /><img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ae5fc4cfa17f3f7b1b7d25d88fedb533218ce5f5a92c85b4a9eedfbe1d0355f/Earthen-PIT-65-of-70-copy.jpg" data-mid="187193891" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ae5fc4cfa17f3f7b1b7d25d88fedb533218ce5f5a92c85b4a9eedfbe1d0355f/Earthen-PIT-65-of-70-copy.jpg" /><img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1b8dae70be71f8c3a402855a5d07f4832980dc454e765185be2521a2dc6a913/earthenpit3.jpg" data-mid="187193894" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1b8dae70be71f8c3a402855a5d07f4832980dc454e765185be2521a2dc6a913/earthenpit3.jpg" /> Matter Feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns, and remembers 2022&nbsp;wood, plaster, found objects, acrylic, photocopies&nbsp; 2’x3’x 15” <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/891cdfb871e9e4a8f1f6a361e1269721790fb7c9f4bdd1a124f77e350ef00d4b/Earthen-PIT-41-of-70-copy.jpg" data-mid="187193895" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/891cdfb871e9e4a8f1f6a361e1269721790fb7c9f4bdd1a124f77e350ef00d4b/Earthen-PIT-41-of-70-copy.jpg" /> detail of&nbsp;Matter Feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns, and remembers 2022 wood, plaster, found objects, acrylic, photocopies&nbsp; 2’x3’x 15” <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15ade6f748f57e25d50e31c1ed56605ea163c6bec12e8c21c931899fab593013/Earthen-PIT-70-of-70-copy.jpg" data-mid="187193892" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15ade6f748f57e25d50e31c1ed56605ea163c6bec12e8c21c931899fab593013/Earthen-PIT-70-of-70-copy.jpg" /> Compact Mirror, 2022, found materials, silicone, plaster, acrylic, milkpaint, pigment, 3’x 3’ <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/873896a6c341babe335f620e6ee19d7bd3d7fce6de3827ca186c2f000a4cf277/Earthen-PIT-69-of-70-copy.jpg" data-mid="187193893" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/873896a6c341babe335f620e6ee19d7bd3d7fce6de3827ca186c2f000a4cf277/Earthen-PIT-69-of-70-copy.jpg" />detail of&nbsp;Compact Mirror, 2022, found materials, silicone, plaster, acrylic, milkpaint, pigment, 3’x 3’ <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/604db505c031b9a8f4a7fa138c66fdb69b48942e071a78ec14bc952fedbb2ed1/earthenpit2.jpg" data-mid="187193896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/604db505c031b9a8f4a7fa138c66fdb69b48942e071a78ec14bc952fedbb2ed1/earthenpit2.jpg" />installation view <img width="1080" height="810" width_o="1080" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd30adf4617f1dd725873c68ee4e31c5872ca520f55a6404b030604a9f585ed8/earthenpit5.jpg" data-mid="187193897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd30adf4617f1dd725873c68ee4e31c5872ca520f55a6404b030604a9f585ed8/earthenpit5.jpg" /> Waiting (click clack of the heel) found objects, silicone, acrylic, inkjet print fragments 2022 10’x1’ The above collecton of images are from an installation in the pit at Yale School of Art Spring 2023. All photos are by Pat Garcia Jr.&nbsp; https://earthenclay.net/writing Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:39:46 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/writing A motley crew of about 7 or 8 of us assembled down by the shitter nearest the main cabin. Slick sweat streaked queens wearing tight blue wranglers and boots or a neon yellow thong with a cut up crop top and bandana wrapped around his nose and mouth. Pulling on work gloves we quickly organized into smaller groups of one person taking the shovel into the bowels of the shitter and another at the ready with the wheelbarrow. Once full, pushing it uphill across the gravel way past little groups of tulle, wigs, glitter and heels gossiping and laughing, down past the kitchen house music blasts with sounds of lunch being prepared laughing and down into the orchard where a dancing hottie shovels pulled wilted weeds onto the pile of decomposing shit where it will sit for a season or so until it gets spread under the fruit trees. I grip the wheelbarrow as tight as I can sweat making it threaten to slip out of my strong hands and careen down the hill into the steaming pile. But I keep control and empty my load, turning around with a smile at the cutie and head back toward the shitter for another fill. By this time Charming has gone deep inside scraping out the dregs of last year’s shit having accumulated until now. As soon as he finishes another is ready and waiting with an empty wheelbarrow, With Enthusiasm! We find condoms, douche pipets, wrappers and undecomposed corncobs and tough citrus rinds. We’re having fun now blasting music and making it cute. Showing off as we strain our muscles in the sun pushing the wheelbarrow, flexing at the other queers like look I’m shoveling your shit babe, you can thank me later, &nbsp;or never - eyes twinkling.<img width="2550" height="9900" width_o="2550" height_o="9900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a32ace4a68d23b20e92fefc65711b79c0f998c851743d83f7f1bc11658c4ef2f/motlycrew_pit_41123.jpg" data-mid="187194249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a32ace4a68d23b20e92fefc65711b79c0f998c851743d83f7f1bc11658c4ef2f/motlycrew_pit_41123.jpg" /> https://earthenclay.net/archive Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:06:03 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/archive <img width="1180" height="1766" width_o="1180" height_o="1766" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73d4477d5113f347830d2f9ca6c0c81f1b5f3e902ba57a3d7e3bfc796b09383f/Screenshot-2025-09-21-at-11.00.44PM.png" data-mid="238962937" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73d4477d5113f347830d2f9ca6c0c81f1b5f3e902ba57a3d7e3bfc796b09383f/Screenshot-2025-09-21-at-11.00.44PM.png" /> <img width="802" height="1076" width_o="802" height_o="1076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/073dcf3fd2f117c5dea77f80e934eefc29714de3dfdd771e91dda4ef512e82de/Screen-Shot-2022-09-01-at-4.31.53-PM.png" data-mid="238962940" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/802/i/073dcf3fd2f117c5dea77f80e934eefc29714de3dfdd771e91dda4ef512e82de/Screen-Shot-2022-09-01-at-4.31.53-PM.png" /><img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a036ac38da94d2163bb84cec83938c715c0e7dd64028b1884e14aa3b439b8365/16-orangepeel2021.jpg" data-mid="238962939" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a036ac38da94d2163bb84cec83938c715c0e7dd64028b1884e14aa3b439b8365/16-orangepeel2021.jpg" /><img width="1208" height="1392" width_o="1208" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53d482b7b70236062104280a601017af15994b20c657b4db0630e353675dc922/Screen-Shot-2024-11-10-at-9.37.51-PM.png" data-mid="243668758" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/874/i/53d482b7b70236062104280a601017af15994b20c657b4db0630e353675dc922/Screen-Shot-2024-11-10-at-9.37.51-PM.png" /> https://earthenclay.net/Bio-CV Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:16:18 +0000 earthen clay https://earthenclay.net/Bio-CV Earthen Clay (he/him) works across disciplines including collage, painting, sculpture and site-responsive installation. Clay was born in 1988 in Anchorage, Alaska. He received his BFA from Watkins College of Art in Nashville in 2013 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in Painting and Printmaking in 2024. He was awarded a Skowhegan residency in 2018 and was a 2025 teaching fellow at Norfolk Yale Summer School in Norfolk, CT. His work has been shown at The Box and Izzy Lee Gallery (formerly North Loop West) in Los Angeles, Yossi Milo in New York, David Castillo in Miami, FL. Clay’s first solo,&nbsp; As The Apple Disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies was exhibited in 2025 at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. His work has been covered in The Brooklyn Rail and Burnaway Magazine. Clay lives and works in New York.CV&nbsp; Education 2024 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University 2018 Skowhegan School of Painting &amp; Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME 2013 BFA, Watkins College of Art, Design, &amp; Film Solo Exhibitions 2025 As The Apple Disappears Into Water And Sweetness In Our Bodies, Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2022 Nothing Has An Edge, Chinkapin, Woodbury TN 2019 I Knew You Saw It Too, Electric Shed, Nashville, TN 2018 Into The Watershed, Bijan Fedowski, Nashville, TN Please Leave These Two Large Logs, organized by Mika Agari, Nashville, TN 2014 507 Hagan Street, The Packing Plant, Nashville, TN 2013 My House Has 351 Beds, BFA thesis exhibition, Watkins Gallery, Nashville, TN Group Exhibitions 2026 (forthcoming), Bad Water, Knoxville, TN Little Birds and Our Daily Prayers, The Locker Room, New York, NY Triangle Projects Presents, Triangle Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2025 Phallus:Fascinum:Facism, The Box, Los Angeles, CA Repeat, Space Petrel, New York, NY Eden V, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2024 They Stole the Sweet Away: MFA Thesis Yale Painting and Printmaking, SPURS Gallery, Beijing, China And The Dogs Were Silent, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL Surface Trouble, Yossi Milo, New York, NY the sounds that linger, humming in our ears, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2023 Second Thoughts 2nd Year MFA Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT Bedroom/Bathroom, Triangle Projects, Miami, FL 2022 Blanket Statement 1st Year MFA Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2019 Seen When Spoken, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH 2017 As We Dig We Bury, The Mausoleum at ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY 2016 Dream A Reality, WAG, Nashville, TN Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, &nbsp;Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA 2012 A Line In Between, Lowe Mill Arts Center, Huntsville, AL Teaching 2025 Teaching Fellow-Making Do: Alternative Ways and Means- Summer ‘25, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT 2024 Teaching Assistant- Advanced Drawing, Spring 24’, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2023 Teaching Assistant- Basic Drawing, Fall ‘23, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2013 Community Education Teacher- Soft Sculpture, Summer ‘13, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN Grants + Awards 2024 Yale School of Art Dean’s Prize Residencies 2023 Yale x Pasanella Program, Camaiore, Italy 2021 Chinkapin Art Residency, Chinkapin Craftstead, Woodbury, TN Projects 2015-2018 Co-Director and Curator at Mild Climate, Nashville, TN 2013 Unit 2 with Watkins College of Art, Design &amp; Film and Riverbend Max Security Prison, Nashville, TN 2011-13 Editor, Fulcrum, student-run magazine at Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN Visiting Artist and Presentations 2025 Visiting Artist and artist presentation, As the apple disappears, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA 2024 Presentation, Jennifer Pranolo’s Seminar, Form As Feeling, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT 2019 Presentation, Department of Art and Design, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN 2018 Invited Speaker, Symposium, Fire On The Horizon: Artist-Run Spaces and Alternative Exhibition Platforms organized by Lee Pivnik, RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI 2017 Exhibition and Graduate Critiques, with Mild Climate, Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia Institutional Service 2024 Student Representative, Yale Painting and Printmaking Admissions Committee Selected Press Earthen Clay: As the apple disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies by Tony Bluestone for ArtSeen, Brooklyn Rail, September 2025 https://brooklynrail.org/2025/09/artseen/earthen-clay-as-the-apple-disappears-into-water-and-sweetness-in-our-bodies/ In Conversation with Earthen Clay by Blair Leblanc for Burnaway Magazine November 9, 2023 https://burnaway.org/magazine/in-conversation-with-earthen-clay/ Publication/Writing Press Release for Em Rooney’s exhibition Imagined Beauty Begins Now, May 2- June 22, 2024 at Derosia, NYC https://derosia.nyc/exhibitions/imagined-beauty-begins-now