The ceramic sculptures above are from Becky Tucker’s Umbra, currently on view at Steve Turner in Los Angeles. The Glasgow-based artist’s work is inspired by “the history of Britain’s lost villages”.
From the gallery-
Tucker relishes working with fired ceramic, the very material that survives for thousands of years. She uses white stoneware that is glazed several times as well as faux suede dyed with indigo to assemble the pieces of her larger works. The idea of lost artifacts is at the root of her practice and the objects she creates cannot be clearly placed in a specific time period. Her mix of source imagery–Chinese tomb guardians, fossils, motorcycle armor, medieval illuminated manuscripts and Indian theater costumes–complicates identifying the origin of the works. Tucker’s works imply that the past can be as shadowy as the future.
This exhibition closes 10/12/24.