Memory Sticks
May 19 - July 7, 2018

Gallery favorite Larry Downing returns with Memory Sticks, stacks of ceramic sculptures which he arranges “like a poet plugs in words . . . they are as random as my thoughts and as composed as a prayer. They are playfully deliberate, borrowing from generations of clay technique, but striving for something new to say.” Complementing the sculptures are a new selection of imaginative, functional pottery.

STATEMENT

Several sources describe an “Ebenezer” as a monumental stone chosen and set up to signify the great help God granted. After crossing the Red Sea, Moses set up stones to remind the Jews escaping slavery, of what God had done for them. I think of my stacks as notes to myself, and to those viewing them, as reminders of help. I handle and shape each form with purpose. I stack and re-stack them like a poet plugs in words, changes and reorders them. These are my musings about God’s protection and help. They are both as random as my thoughts and as composed as a prayer. They are playfully deliberate, borrowing from generations of clay technique, but striving for something new to say.