BUTTERFLY BONES: Ceramic Sculptures by Genevieve VanZandt

Butterfly Bones invites viewers to explore the intersection of fragility and resilience, whimsy and the quietly profound. The exhibition’s title alludes to paradoxes that unfold throughout VanZandt’s process and imagery: delicate insect forms and skeletal echoes, beauty and decay, impermanence and endurance. Using a mix of hand-built and slip-cast techniques, she collects, organizes, and archives individual components, which are later assembled like visual fragments in a collage. Raw clay and fired pieces are layered, fired, and glazed repeatedly, resulting in richly textured, kaleidoscopic ceramic sculptures that serve as three-dimensional collages imbued with visual metaphors of transformation.