Lauren Powell Presents:

~ Colin J. Radcliffe ~

Tender Texts

Very excited to present this sampling of ceramics by the scintillating Colin J. Radcliffe - who is pulling the curtain back on his experiences with Queer Culture for us all to see, and no matter who you are or how you identify - perhaps you can relate. Dating in our current heavily digital age is a whole new game, and this vulnerable, tender collection of autobiographical moments touches me deeply. The tension between playful, humorous perspectives and lonely, lewd responses makes me want to laugh and cry simultaneously. Caressed into form from a porcelain clay body and then fired with experimental combinations of low and high-fire glazes - each work endures literal trial by fire resulting in final glaze colors that can be wildly unpredictable, much like love. How much of these cell phone matchmaking app interactions are our own perceptions of constructed information exchanged in the digital space and how much is actually real? A hybrid of combined fragmented realities, these physical representations of actual memories are a revealing of the intimacies and connections we often keep hidden on the other sides of our screens, a new generation of the Precious Moments my mother collected when I was a kid, and I’m immediately in love.

Learn more about Colin’s work here: https://www.colinjradcliffe.com/ .

Colin J. Radcliffe is a ceramic sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. Radcliffe’s figurative and object-based work chronicles his personal successes and failures in Queer love. Centering on the dynamics of homosocializing in Queer digital space, the pursuit of love and intimacy obstructed by a chronically diseased body, humor as a catalyst for healing trauma, and ultimately Queer relationships. Radcliffe’s work has been written about in PAPER Magazine, ARTnews, YNGSPC, MATH Magazine, Gum Gazette, and Arcade Project Zine. Radcliffe has exhibited work in group shows in the US and abroad at Able Baker Contemporary, Flux Factory, Untitled Space, Field Projects, Satellite Art Fair, The Royal Society of American Art, and Villa Noailles. Radcliffe has had solo and two-person exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, Temporary Storage Gallery, and Proto-Gomez Gallery. Radcliffe graduated from Bard College in 2016 with a B.A. in Visual Arts.