AMoCA Collection | Dolomite Pillar, stoneware, porcelain, 40”x10”x10”, 2013
RAIR | 2012-13
Miranda Howe | Roswell, NM
Miranda Howe was born and raised in New Mexico, in a family of artists and creative thinkers. Her undergraduate studies were done at Lubbock Christian University and then Texas Tech University, where she received a BFA in Ceramics in 1995. Before embarking on grad school, she was able to focus on art history and printmaking through the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts based in Italy and Greece. She later completed an MFA in 2002 from Montana State University. She has been awarded art residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, the LH Project, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program and the Kohler Arts/Industry Residency, which have all helped to shape her ceramic practice.
The magical experience of opening a geode, revealing a striking interior so vastly different from the initial finding...stepping into a cloister with its inviting protected spaces...viewing an endless array of patterns that establish a rhythm, allowing the mind to drift...building with the elemental architectural components of walls and blocks, all merge together in the creation of “Earth Jewel”.
"Stacked Patterns" deals with my love of arranging and rearranging various components along with a desire to create depth in my surfaces by layering a combination of decorative ceramic techniques. “Pattern stacking” is also a geologic term referring to strata and how the earth continues to grow. It is this pairing of the geologic and ornate that fuels my current body of work.
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • Miranda Howe "Stacked Patterns" • June 15 - July 28, 2013
