LOS ANGELES, USA
Collection: NADINE SCHELBERT
ARTIST STATEMENT
Nadine Schelbert’s ceramic work centres on transformation and assemblage. Through the bending and intertwining of flat planes, she investigates what three-dimensional forms can emerge. She strives for curvatures that appear effortless, as if resulting from an elastic tension within the material. Voluptuous curves combine with sharp lines and angles to create a seductive ambiguity. They engage in a relationship of tension and release, motion and arrest, engagement and withdrawal.
In tandem with the sensuousness of bare clay, Nadine Schelbert explores glazes that encapsulate a sense of age. Dry and encrusted surfaces transform her pieces, infusing them with a frailness that borders crumbling. The glazed work moves away from sensuality towards ephemerality and transience.
Biography
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Nadine Schelbert is a Swiss artist, designer, and creative director based in Los Angeles. She
holds degrees from Lausanne Hotel School in Switzerland and Art Center College of Design
in Pasadena, California. After living and working in Japan, Hong Kong, and Ecuador, she
moved to Los Angeles and pursued a career as Creative Director in the field of design. Her
extended engagement with large-scale projects around the world left her eager to start
working in a more immediate and tactile manner again. As a result, she started
experimenting with clay several years ago and invested herself fully into the medium in
2021.
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