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This artwork—made from porcelain, stoneware, glaze, gold luster, magnets, and silicone—takes the form of a flowering, U-shaped cactus, playfully referencing its title. According to the artist, the Saguaro cactus inserts itself into the root system of a Palo Verde, making it a nurse tree, and the two plants grow together until the nurse tree dies.
The artist calls this body of work his “Syzygy” series—a term used by psychologist and philosopher Carl Jung to mean a union of opposites—in which he plays with concepts of doubling, mirroring, codependency, relationships, and enmeshment.
Judd Schiffman uses clay as a drawing material to make psychedelic ceramic wall sculptures of lived and imagined experiences that ponder the power of personal rites of passage. His recent work explores the complexity of his experience being a father, in which themes of masculinity, the discovery of the self, sexuality, nuanced guilt, confusion, and elation exist in tandem with the tenderness and energy he receives through his family.
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Judd Schiffman uses clay as a drawing material to make psychedelic ceramic wall sculptures of lived and imagined experiences that ponder the power of personal rites of passage. His recent work explores the complexity of his experience being a father, in which themes of masculinity, the discovery of the self, sexuality, nuanced guilt, confusion, and elation exist in tandem with the tenderness and energy he receives through his family.
Judd Schiffman was born in 1982 and lives in Providence, RI. He earned his MFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO (2015) and his BA from Prescott College in Prescott, AZ (2007).
Schiffman has mounted solo exhibitions at Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York City, NY (2022) and Maake Projects in State College, PA (2021).
His work has been featured in group exhibitions such as Oddkin at Kate McNamara Projects, East Providence, RI (2022); Leave a Light On at Taos The Valley Gallery in Taos, NM (2022); Tell Them About Me at 1969 Gallery in New York City, NY (2020); and Animal Crossing at Inman Gallery in Houston, TX (2020).
Schiffman was the recipient of the Hopper Prize (2023) and an emerging artist award from the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts (2016).
This artwork—made from porcelain, stoneware, glaze, gold luster, magnets, and silicone—takes the form of a flowering, U-shaped cactus, playfully referencing its title. According to the artist, the Saguaro cactus inserts itself into the root system of a Palo Verde, making it a nurse tree, and the two plants grow together until the nurse tree dies.More
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