![Ceramic, shaped like the head of a mushroom. Textured like alligator skin, brown on the body with a fade to yellow on the top third.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/wolfe-j-image8-1500p-1500.webp)
![7 foot tall black ceramic pillar. Cut horizontally into 5 pieces by steel plates, none of the plates are level. It's held up by a short rusted steel structure.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/wolfe-j-image9-1500.webp)
![A black ceramic form, shaped like an oblong torso. Window-like cutouts in the form give way to lights on the inside, seen through a prism foil that refracts light in strange ways. It's held up by a steel frame that gives it a look of great weight.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/sight-1500.webp)
![An amorphous copper form, soldered together. It's shape is abstract, but has been described as like an animal skull. Presents as if made of copper coral.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/wolfe-j-image7-1500.webp)
![A small white ceramic vase. The neck is wrapped tightly in blue oxidized copper wire, with the same wire wrapped around the base and through holes in the form.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/wolfe-j-image3-1500.webp)
![A handbuilt ceramic bowl of red and brown clay marbled together. It’s made of different pieces of clay, making the marbling inconsistent across the bowl. White clay fills the seams between the pieces, no effort was made to hide the seams. The interior of the bowl has a cracked dry lake bed texture.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/byp0358-1500.webp)
![A handmade mug with an unglazed exterior, no effort was made to hide where the clay connects to itself. It leans slightly to the left towards the heavy handle. A red clay and a brown clay marble together while the seams of the mug are white with a third clay color, highlighting them.. The inside is glazed a matte white.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/byp0182-1500.webp)
![A handbuilt ceramic mug made of red and brown clay marbled together; It has a dry lake bed texture with the raised areas being a white clay. It’s made of different pieces of clay, making the marbling and texture inconsistent. White clay also fills the seams between the pieces, no effort was made to hide the seams. The interior of the mug is glazed black, and the handle is made of the same white clay that’s used in the seams.](/about/our-work/annual-exhibition/2024/justin-wolfe/images/byp0243-1500.webp)
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Justin Wolfe 2024
BFA Fine Arts
I am a mixed-media sculpture artist and educator who works and teaches primarily with
ceramics. The way in which I work is 'planning for the process, not for the result'
and allows me to create without fear of expectations. My inspirations come from phenomenology,
technology, and the seemingly random chance in the organics of our ecosystems. As
an educator, this presents as a less structured pedagogy that focuses on the process
of making. As an artist, I try not to attach decided notions of subject matter to
my work in keeping with that freedom in nature. It's important to me that my work's
content remains abstract and does not influence the viewer's perspective. I like my
ceramics to speak for themselves and to tell their own stories.
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