Come, navigate the delicately balanced terrain of porcelain and rocks. Notice how subtle differences in color reveal shifts in materials and a diversity of textures: the soft buttery surface of porcelain, the jagged edge of a piece of broken concrete. Moving through the space, a particular sensitivity to one’s own body and position in space emerges. Points of connection to history are subtle. The work takes time to reveal itself.

Balancing experimentation with skilled craft Christy Wittmer creates sculptures that challenge expectations of function and notions of stability. 

Her intricate porcelain forms are records of time, skill and the process of making. Broken objects are repaired because they are needed or valued. Found objects are inconsequential debris that are collected and given purpose. The time spent in making, repairing and finding becomes an act of caring embedded in the work.

Wittmer arranges, assembles and stacks these materials, which are held together by the weight of one object supporting another. As these precarious compositions are navigated, the observer becomes hyper aware of their own body in the space and anxiety increases. The tenuous stability of the work acknowledges the temporary equilibrium of the present moment.

Since earning her MFA from the University of Cincinnati,  Christy Wittmer has taught and utilized residencies to create artwork in dialog with locations around the world.  In 2016-17 she was awarded a Fulbright grant to study ceramic practices in Jingdezhen, China. In 2015-2016 she was an artist in residence at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS and at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. In 2018 she was a visiting artist at Australia National University and created artwork in the foundry at the Kohler Company’s Arts/Industry Residency. She has been awarded the NCECA International Residency to CRETA Rome for 2021. Wittmer currently teaches Ceramics at Phoenix College and Chandler-Gilbert Community College. She has been a member of Eye Lounge collective since 2019.