April 25 – May 30, 2026

In the large gallery is Sets of Seven Cylinders. Each of these 37 ceramic sculptures are comprised of two elements—cylinders and bands—differentiated by either color or arrangement. They are made by hand, using a slab press that forces clay between sheets of canvas to form a textured plane which is then cut, folded, assembled, fired, glazed, and in some cases painted. Each one is unique.

Taking cues from industrial manufacturing (including weapons production), serial art practices of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and an area of practical mathematics called circle packing, these forms also refer to the Fasces1. The majority of the sculptures form a compact clustered nucleus that appear to reference a bundle of dynamite, which, as a symbol, connotes power or potential explosive energy, and brings to mind Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous quote from his autobiography Ecce Homo “I am not a man, I am dynamite.“