Quintessential Clay

In Quintessential Clay five artists - Patsy Cox, Rick Maldanado, Porntip Sangvanich, Biliana Popova, and Fred Yokel - offer a new take on the question of transnational art and influence. Each artist creates work that is both stylistically diverse and technically crafted in a different manner. They are natives of Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, and all have traveled extensively absorbing and incorporating indigenous elements into their work. Each, as well, has known each other over the years, through exhibitions, group shows, and common events. Expressing great admiration for one another's work, they have come together to resculpt and rethink considered ideas about the Southern California clay movement.