Vessels of Clay: Silent Connection and Transformation brings together four artists whose distinct practices in clay converge in an exploration of relation—linking self to lineage, sorrow to regeneration, earth to spirit, and absence to presence. Each artist engages with clay not only as a material but as a conduit for transformation, reflection, and communion.
Clay, ancient and mutable, becomes a shared language by which the artists navigate memory, spirituality, and collective experience. The exhibition weaves together sculptures, organic forms, tactile surfaces, and resonant voids, forming a quiet yet powerful meditation on what binds us: to our ancestors, to the earth, and to the unseen forces that shape our existence. “These artists approach clay as both vessel and voice,” says curator Jennifer Cheh. “Through their works, we encounter moments of reverence, loss, and renewal—each gesture in clay an act of connection.”
Among the works on view, Amy Bernard Bryant’s Bloodline honors her Palestinian and Lebanese heritage into sculptures to express texture tone, and identity rooted in migration, and belonging; In Kinship, Jennifer H. Cheh transforms personal loss into quiet resilience, creating delicately balanced vessels that trace the thresholds between sorrow and healing — where form, touch, and surrender become meditations on endurance and renewal; In Nothing More Than Emptiness, Cirilo Domine bridges cultures and histories, recognizing patterns of absence and translation as he reinterprets the vessel as both body and metaphor — an inquiry into what is held, lost, and endures through the act of transformation; and Grace Potter’s Reliquaries intertwine ecology and spiritual inquiry, crafting porcelain vessels for small found creatures as acts of reverence and reciprocity with the more-than-human world.
[Special Event: Tea Gathering with Cirilo Domine]
In conjunction with the exhibition, tea practitioner Cirilo Domine, of the Urasenke school, together with his local tea group (shachu), will lead a tea gathering featuring a demonstration, a brief lecture, and a conversation exploring the relationship between tea and the artworks on view. January 25, 2026. Reservations are required due to limited seating.
