Automology

Patti Warashina has created a remarkable body of work since she began working with the ceramics in the early sixties.  Today, she is among America's most well known ceramic sculptors and teachers.  Her work is about telling stories, often humorous narratives, that primarily depict exaggerated figures in dream-like situations-sometimes domestic, sometimes otherworldly. Widely recognized for her figurative ceramic works, Warashina writes, Since I embarked on my journey as an artist, the image of the human body has been an absorbing visual fascination. It gives me a reference point to my own existence, the civilization in which I live, as well as my relationship to a historical past . . .