RANDI
BACHMAN
DEPARTMENT
CERAMICS
ORIGIN
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
I am fascinated by the delicate tension between fragility and resilience.
Through the materiality of the ceramic medium, my practice reflects
a personal narrative suspended in nostalgia and memory. My work
carries the weight of lineage and influence through texture, nuance, and
abstraction. Utilizing the aesthetics of process, my ceramics are the
manifestation of small monuments created improvisationally. I explore
precarity as a condition while creating spaces that oscillate between
micro and macro, the way we hold things together, or let them fall apart,
and what it means to create in the face of uncertainty. The process
involves unfurling, trailing, looping, and accumulating layers that
function as composite remnants—moments preserved as souvenirs.
Soft color palettes evoke a sense of childlike wonder. I am interested
in the notion and extrapolation of “byproduct.” Instead of linear or rigid
processes of creating, I engage in experiential play: a sort of call and
response that happens between me and the material. I am interested in
where limits are felt, renegotiated and represented.
Frost Flowers
2023, Porcelain, Earthenware, Glaze and Plastic, 12” x 12” x 6”
Souvenir 1, Thomas Moran’s Western Myth/ Big Rock Candy Mountains
2024, Recycled Earthenware, Porcelain, Glaze, Overglaze Luster, 13” x 6” x 4”
Souvenir 2, Thomas Moran’s Western Myth/ Big Rock Candy Mountains
2024, Recycled Earthenware, Porcelain, Glaze, Overglaze Luster, 13” x 8” x 6”
Supercalafragilist
2024, Recycled Earthenware, Porcelain, Glaze, Overglaze Luster, 10’ x 8’ x 4’