Primary Medium

Ceramics/Pottery

Address

275 Calyer St
Brooklyn, 11222

Artist Statement

Ceramic artist, Janine Sopp, spent the first seven years of her artistic career designing clothing and textiles. With this rich and varied experience, she left the fashion industry and traveled across Europe and Morocco, where she uncovered her deeper artistic desire of molding clay. She favors clay because it is a responsive medium that indulges her passion for texture and color. Her formative years designing textiles has quite naturally transferred to her works in clay. Sopp works in a variety of techniques, with most pieces beginning as slabs. Once she rolls out each slab, she begins a dialogue with the material. The clay offers her a way to connect and communicate. Textures and patterns tell a story and carry the artist on a journey of discovery. Influenced by ancient cultures, symbols, architecture, weathering and decay, Sopp's work has recurring themes that reflect her inner aesthetic sensibilities and the notion of time and space.

Links

Website: http://glyphdesigns.com
Instagram: @glyph_designs