Alex Kraft

Alex Kraft creates tableaus of layered memories, sensory reflections of passed moments that surmount details and erode specific meaning. She floast between abstraction and semi-abstracted realism. Often there are specific decipherable symbols or “nouns” apparent, but an exacting narrative is not nessicary. Pattern and botanical imagery are often present through organic abstraction of flora, fauna, and landscape. This pervades an interest in the physical being and is oriented towards the larger grander enterprise of the self. Her work employs layered multi-temperature oxidation glaze firings. She developed a brightly colored, multi-surfaced glaze palette that unifies the formal qualities of ceramics with its content. She uses mono-printing, mishima, image transfer, other decorative treatments that further encourage a wide variety of surfaces.