My work pivots on a contradiction between subject and material. I take forms from architecture and industry, shapes designed to bear load, 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.

To remake these forms in porcelain is to interrupt their inheritance, and color continues that interruption. Each sculpture arrives in its own chromatic register: glazes shining between matte and gloss, between absorption and reflection, insisting on a visibility that the original forms never required. Their authority was never in the material, but in the agreement to keep looking at them a certain way. These sculptures withdraw that agreement. 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