ALYSSA GRAHAM
Ceramics
Alyssa Graham was born in Lansing, Michigan and she lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. She has had many years of experience in the hospitality field, holding various jobs, as well as some office experience. Alyssa is a mixed media artist primarily working in ceramics and paint, she also has experience in digital art, woodworking, metalworking and even fibers. Alyssa will graduate from College for Creative Studies in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts double major in Ceramics and Art Education.
Contact
Email: Grahamalyssa16@gmail.com
Website: www.ceramicsangel.com
Instagram: @ceramicsangel
Are You Scared?, 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Underglaze
18”x 7”
Are You Scared? (detail), 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Underglaze
Are You Scared?, 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Underglaze
18”x 7”
Are You Scared? (detail), 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Underglaze
Are You Scared? (detail), 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Underglaze
Cloudy, 2019
Bent Ply, Soft Maple, Paint, Velvet
39”x 30”
Cloudy (detail), 2019
Bent Ply, Soft Maple, Paint, Velvet
Anxiety, 2020
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze, Beading
18”x 15”
Anxiety (detail), 2020
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze, Beading
Anxiety (detail), 2020
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze, Beading
Architecture, 2018
Ceramic-Porcelain, Glaze
24”x 40”
Frost, 2018
Ceramic-Porcelain
15”x16”
Frost (detail), 2018
Ceramic-Porcelain
Self Portrait, Dance Your Heart Out
Plywood, Canvas, Oil paint
36”x 48”
18”x 24”
Dance Your Heart Out
Plywood, Canvas, Oil paint
18”x 24”
The World Inside, 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze
16”x 8”
The World Inside (detail), 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze
Monestera, 2019
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze, MDF, Grout
16”x 18”
16”x 18”
Sea Urchin, 2018
Ceramic-Stoneware, Glaze
12” x 8”
Art Education- Mandala, 2019
Canvas, Acrylic Paint
16” x 16”
Slithering, 2019
Cotton, Bleach, Beading
72” x 24”
ALYSSA GRAHAM
“The things we collect and that surround us reveal our narratives and silently map our personalities. What we leave behind becomes the physical memory of our existence. Objects contain ghosts of memories and have the power to disclose forgotten secrets.”
-Blake Williams
My practice is centered around expressing my emotions and thoughts, through methods not entirely known to me at the time of creation. I believe that objects that are created hold a certain energy and piece of the maker. Self discovery has led to me using ceramics as a way of interpreting my surroundings and related emotions. As I have grown my practice has expanded further than just clay, but clay is my true love.
When I was a child I would not vocalize my emotions but instead escape through reading and creating. When I first touched clay it had the same properties as reading, a way of melting away all the bad thoughts and obsessions. Clay has always had a restorative property to me, the way it is cool to the touch and can be smoothed out or roughed up, it takes the properties you give it.
My ideas rest in my own personal experiences and the duality of life as a whole. The bad within the good. I constantly feel like I am being pulled in a thousand different directions at once, much like how the ocean is a slave to the weather and currents. The feeling of belonging everywhere and nowhere all at once. My past does not define me but it shapes my perceptions of the world, much like I shape clay. Life isn't sunshine everyday, but there is beauty within the bad, as much as the good.