ABOUT ADRY

ARTIST STATEMENT

My sculpture is born because somewhere between my heart and my stomach I feel a huge visceral need that screams to be heard and be made into sculpture. 

My most recent artwork represents a larger learning process for me and it’s driving force is undoubtedly “motherhood”; a life altering experience that paved a new direction for me as an artist.  Since the birth of my children, a mixture of new emotions and concerns, have gained a different level of importance in my life. I now have the need to explore them and give them shape and expression in my sculpture.

Some of the pieces of this new body of work are made with a mold-making material and finished with acrylic paint and stains.  Others are made with clay slip and finished in the same fashion.  The sculptures are intended to evoke questions about the impermanence of life and to connect the viewer as well as the artist to many different issues surrounding childhood, motherhood, absence and loss. This work is not just a reflection of self, but expresses larger themes of life, love and loss which I am driven to explore further.

Even though my work started in a very intimate and personal way, it progressed and took on a more universal perspective.  My work to date is just the beginning of what has now become a very ambitious project, one that has great potential for experimentation, self-discovery and growth.

EDUCATION                            

ü   May 2000.

Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, NY. BFA in studio art.  Concentration  in Ceramic Sculpture.        

WORK EXPERIENCE

ü   Summer 1999 - 2000.

Long Island University, Studio Manager, ceramics.

ü   Fired kilns for two ceramics classes

ü   Made glazes

ü   Recycled clay

ü   Managed four student assistants.

   RELATED EXPERIENCE

ü   fall 1999

Substitute Teacher, ceramics studio, sculpture class, Long Island University.       

ü   Spring 1999

Teacher’s Assistant, ceramics studio, beginner wheel class, Long Island University.

ü   1998 - present       

Studio Assistant, ceramics, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus.

ü   Fall 1995

Internship, ceramics studio, Huntington Art League, Huntington, Long Island, NY.

    EXHIBITIONS

ü   Fall 2000

Alumnae Exhibition, Suffolk County Community College, NY.

ü   Spring  2000

BFA Thesis Exhibition, Selena Gallery, Long Island University, NY. 

ü   Spring  2000

Faculty Show, Resnick Gallery, Long Island University, NY.

ü   Fall 1999

Faculty Show, Selena Gallery, Long Island University, NY.

ü   Fall 1994 – 1996

Student exhibits, Suffolk County Community College, NY.