Brown Foundation Gallery & Vault

November 23, 2024 - February 16, 2025

ArtWalk Reception
Saturday, November 30, 2024
6 – 9 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM

These exhibitions are supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Artist accommodations generously provided by Hotel Lucine.

Jessica Kreutter
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Collapse features ceramic assemblages by Jessica Kreutter that consider the cycle of decay and renewal. Kreutter’s work explores memory and the passage of time through figurative and organic forms that exist in a space between growth and decomposition. Her forms are the result of a playful manipulation of porcelain fragments that are fused through firing and glazing, allowing the structures to fall under the weight of their accumulations. Similar to how the body merges with the earth to nourish future gardens, loss and destruction become a pathway which allows a new horizon to emerge. In her work Kreutter asks, “after the collapse, what is possible?” to reveal different possibilities for how to imagine the world.

Jessica Kreutter grew up in Denver, CO, received a BA in Anthropology/Sociology from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR and received a MFA in ceramics from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Kreutter has been a resident artist at Anderson Ranch, Vermont Studio Center, Art342, PlatteForum, Caldera, Oregon College of Art and Craft, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Red Lodge Clay Center. In 2016, she was a recipient of a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant and, in 2022, was awarded a grant from the Wendy Wagner Foundation. Kreutter has shown at Vertigo Gallery (Denver), Castle Gallery (New York), Site131 (Dallas), and The Mütter Museum (Philadelphia). In Houston, she has exhibited at Art League Houston, BLUEorange, and in the Craft Texas biennial at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Recently, Kreutter exhibited work in the Dallas Art Fair with Cris Worley Fine Arts and created an installation for Sculpture Month Houston set in intentionally unimproved industrial grain silos. She is a full-time art faculty member at Houston Community College where she teaches ceramics and sculpture.

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