BIOGRAPHY
Linda Ge was born in Fort Collins, Colorado but has lived most of her life in Iowa. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Iowa in 2012 and completed her Ceramics Post-Baccalaureate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. From 2016-2018, she was a resident artist at the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and have been featured in various publications including Ceramics Monthly.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
To fully confront the innumerable, cacophonous oddities in one’s head is a challenge that not many can overcome. But there is a sense of relief that comes with taking control of these thoughts, if only for the smallest of instances. The pieces I create reflect an instinctual need to dissect my own insecurities and shortcomings – much of which are often pushed back into the forgotten recesses of my mind. By bringing forth such intangible notions into our realm of existence, I am able to obtain a better grasp of myself, and subsequently the human condition.
The sculptures and drawings I create are vague reflections of what we are familiar with. An essential subject I focus on is the human body. By observing the anatomy and similar forms echoed in nature, I reduce these elements down to their most basic components, then reconstruct them back together. The results are often whimsical and uncanny.
My aim is to blur the lines between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. I extract forms from my drawings and flesh them out in clay, firmly grounding their existence in our reality; the ceramic sculptures and vessels in turn act as three-dimensional canvases. In this sense, my drawings and ceramic pieces are extensions of one another rather than separate entities. As a whole, the processes I go through – extracting, deconstructing, and rebuilding – are ways for me to confront the things in life that fascinate me. Things that leave me confused and unsettled. Horrified and in awe. It is through confrontation with these elements that I am able to feel, not always and necessarily more comfortable, but more understanding of the peculiar.
Linda Ge was born in Fort Collins, Colorado but has lived most of her life in Iowa. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Iowa in 2012 and completed her Ceramics Post-Baccalaureate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. From 2016-2018, she was a resident artist at the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and have been featured in various publications including Ceramics Monthly.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
To fully confront the innumerable, cacophonous oddities in one’s head is a challenge that not many can overcome. But there is a sense of relief that comes with taking control of these thoughts, if only for the smallest of instances. The pieces I create reflect an instinctual need to dissect my own insecurities and shortcomings – much of which are often pushed back into the forgotten recesses of my mind. By bringing forth such intangible notions into our realm of existence, I am able to obtain a better grasp of myself, and subsequently the human condition.
The sculptures and drawings I create are vague reflections of what we are familiar with. An essential subject I focus on is the human body. By observing the anatomy and similar forms echoed in nature, I reduce these elements down to their most basic components, then reconstruct them back together. The results are often whimsical and uncanny.
My aim is to blur the lines between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces. I extract forms from my drawings and flesh them out in clay, firmly grounding their existence in our reality; the ceramic sculptures and vessels in turn act as three-dimensional canvases. In this sense, my drawings and ceramic pieces are extensions of one another rather than separate entities. As a whole, the processes I go through – extracting, deconstructing, and rebuilding – are ways for me to confront the things in life that fascinate me. Things that leave me confused and unsettled. Horrified and in awe. It is through confrontation with these elements that I am able to feel, not always and necessarily more comfortable, but more understanding of the peculiar.