Toni Ross: Touchstones

Opening September 3 and on view through October 5, The Drawing Room presents "Toni Ross: Touchstones." 

With this collection of recent sculptural stoneware that includes painterly wall tablets, exquisite boxes and both oval and towering vessels, Ross emerges as a powerful sculptor who constructs her forms with coils, rolled slabs and by throwing on the wheel. Her command of the dazzling shino glaze technique animates the forms’ nuanced surfaces and accentuates their elegant silhouettes. Trained in ceramics, sculpture and painting, Ross came to her work in clay respectful of the medium’s history of traditional functional forms. Captivated more recently by the painterly possibilities for surface palette and texture available in shino, a 16th century Japanese glaze, Ross’ innovative experimentation with the chemistry of her glazes and the balance of elements in the salt and wood firings has sparked a sensitive merging of the sculptural forms and the painted glaze that wraps them.

See below for full press release and selected works.