Pauline Wiertz

Pauline Wiertz

I love when people take a classically domestic medium and elevate it to a whole new level.  Pauline Wiertz is a very gifted ceramics artist who creates porcelain lobster claws, chicken feet, prawns, sea shells, and vegetation, and then fuses them together in strange microcosmic mounds.  I just caught the last day of her show, "Wunderkammer" yesterday.  (And while I loved her pieces, I feel compelled to do a side rant about the mass-appropriation and subsequent misuse of the beloved phrases "wunderkammer" or "cabinet of curiosity."  Simply juxtaposing a bunch of odd objects in a room does not a wunderkammer make.)   Would like very much to see more of her work.

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"Simply juxtaposing a bunch of odd objects in a room does not a wunderkammer make."

Amen, sister!