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Allison Katz Trembling Eye II , 2023
Glazed ceramic, 13½ in. diam. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Where painting is porous, always leaving space for addition, Katz views ceramics as having a “closed” surface. This offers productive painterly contradictions: the material, while dry, has a wet-look sheen; and the colored glazes are subject to unpredictable transformation when fired in the kiln. Here, Katz draws on an architectural motif from a medieval church depicting two faces with three eyes. In the context of the exhibition, this shared eye suggests an interconnected vision, functioning as a form of animation or “trembling” between two figures. —HJ
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