My work pivots on a contradiction between subject and material. I reference forms and shapes designed to hold structure, to mean permanence, and rebuild them in porcelain. The fragility of the material stages a quiet failure of the very logic the forms are meant to embody. That gap between what these objects are made of and what they have been asked to mean is where the work lives. As a gay man, these ideas resonate deeply as I live my life questioning the expectations that arrived before me—to break from and question norms that hold up the layered constructs within our culture, political systems, institutions and everyday life.

Each sculpture arrives in its own chromatic register: glazes shining between matte and gloss, between absorption and reflection, insisting on a visibility. They hold their shape while everything underneath shifts, which is, among other things, a queer gesture: the insistence on occupying a form on your own terms, refusing the meaning that was built into it before you arrived.

I live and work in NYC.

geoffreyaldridge@gmail.com