GERRITY
DEPARTMENT
CERAMICS
ORIGIN
ANN ARBOR, MI
You can say her art practice is her way of healing herself or some type of escape from the realities of the hospital world, and she’ll probably let you get away with it. But the pull toward art was there before. She prefers to think of it as chasing a strange hunger that can’t be satisfied any other way. A challenge undertaken willingly, a joy, a privilege.
Her work starts on the potter’s wheel, combining traditional wheel-throwing techniques with formal principles of color, line, and a nod to modernist gesture. Modular rearrangeable ceramic pieces often partner with functional everyday objects. They are held together for the moment but always unstuck, fragile, and subject to change— a dialogue between the present and familiar, and an unknown, unexpected future. Open spaces—loops, holes, shelves—are central to the work. They might even be the reason for making it. In their emptiness, possibility, potential… hope?
2024, Ceramic, midfire glazes, wingnuts and assorted small studio hardware, Displayed on 5’ x 4’ table
2024, Ceramic, midfire glazes, foam, 16” x 32” x 20”
2024, Ceramic, midfire glazes, cardboard, lunch trays, acrylic paint, 4’ x 5’ x 6”