Keri Straka

Beautiful and grotesque…alluring and repulsing…intimate and cosmic... Pulsing red cellular activity is at once secretive and seductive. The amplification of organic textures and figurative shapes suggest elements of the natural world, while alluding to sensual and corporeal experiences of the human body.

Internal Blooming, features delicate sculptural works which unexpectedly integrate complex ceramic forms with the supple tactile qualities of textiles. Strongly influenced by organic forms and natural phenomena, these collaged shapes are closely tied to biological processes of the human body.

Oscillating between the skeletal architecture of bone and the petal soft terrain of flesh, the shapes embody the subtle dance between external and internal space. The works are evocative of the ebb and flow of human life as mirrored in the blooming of a single cell dividing.