In Practice: Phoebe Collings-James

Opening Reception
Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 6–8pm

Phoebe Collings-James’ works across media function as the debris of knowledge, feeling, violence, language, and desire that result from living and surviving within hostile environments. At SculptureCenter, Collings-James will exhibit a new series of sculptures in red and black clay that explore relationships between heresy, faith, and orthodoxies of church, state, and society. Eccentrically colored by slips, glazes, and various firing techniques, and imprinted with bits of language, each of Collings-James’ sculptures elaborates on the position of the heretic as a transmitter of incendiary speech, opposition from within, and ostracization.