Julia GallowayVery Very Very Fine House Early May 2016

Exhibition Statement

very very very fine house
Exhibition of utilitarian pottery installed on the Schaller Gallery website – May, 2016

The ideas in this exhibition are two fold.

First, I welcome the viewer of this website into my home, on each piece of pottery, row by row, I have drawn my actual surroundings – starting with the clouds in the Montana sky on large teapots, into my living room, kitchen and so on, until lastly, on small sugar bowls covered with images of my bed room and abstract drawings of neurons from memory and dreams. All of these oddly drawn images are actually my home, each drawing full of details of where I live. I hope the specificity of these images becomes universal to the viewer though it’s intimacy of domesticity in the same way that pottery is understood, pitcher for juice or a mug for coffee.

Second, I am using the structure of the Schaller Gallery website and our instinct to read from left to right to support this idea of moving into a place, of telling a story, to enhance a narrative. This is a digital installation. The pottery is designed for this website and uses this structure to help the viewer to understand the ideas in the work.

All of these pots are utilitarian and rooted in domesticity. The goal of this work is to have pottery of my kitchen get to your kitchen. And hopefully to bring comfort, or at least a special moment of recondition where we call home.

- Julia Galloway