Fascinated by clay’s properties since her early exposure to it decades ago, Lukaszewski is intrigued by its apparent fragility, reminding her of her grandmother’s delicate hand-painted China, beautiful and forbidden.
Lukaszewski’s ongoing work explores the load-bearing weight of individual pieces in installations and sculptures larger than her kiln can fire, balancing strength and weakness in delicate objects like ribbons of porcelain tumbling down a wall or delicate coils held in place by friction. In this solo exhibition, Lukaszewski explores past forms and discovers new ways to capture the rhythm, movement, and strength of delicate objects in clay.
