Juliane Shibata is a ceramic artist whose work includes sculptural wall installations and site-specific public art. Her practice is informed by the Japanese concept of mujō (mutability and impermanence) as well as the Pattern & Decoration movement, which challenged the modernist rejection of ornament and drew on decorative traditions around the world. She takes clay slab impressions of a garden’s water spigot knobs and cast-iron decorations, then fires them to create bisque molds for reliefs embellished with stenciled patterns and floral-stamped motifs pressed into wooden Japanese wagashi molds. Shibata also embeds ceramic shards into wet clay, “alluding to the physical aspects of making, past failures, and the cyclical nature of craft.”

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