MARY SHEA, ceramics
Background:
Graduated from Bennington College with a BA in comparative literature.
Took up ceramics after raising five children; studying at community art centers.
Art Works:
An abstract idea is my starting point and that idea usually involves two opposite or opposing thoughts.
Burka is an empty container with two pinpoints of light representing the eyes of a woman who sees the world, but cannot be a part of it. The photo needs to be enlarged to see her eyes.
Coffee Urn is an attempt to come to terms with my in-laws Moslem aesethic which is foreign, but spiritually similiar to the ornate Victorian hand-me-downs I live among.
