04/24/2026
Three intriguing works by artist Casey Engel are included in our current exhibition “Forbidden Fruit”
Developed during a residency at Township10, this series focuses closely on the fingertip as both a tool and a subject. The surfaces are heavily dimpled and pinched, at times almost aggressively handmade, holding the trace of touch as a record of making. In works like Creature and Helios, Engel used pinch molds taken directly from her fingertips, which are embedded into the forms, emerging from and re-entering the surface.
These gestures sit somewhere between growth and intrusion, pointing to the tension between what we are taught to find attractive and what we might otherwise reject. Bumps, lumps, and oozing forms, things that can carry shame, are also deeply human and uncomfortably beautiful.
Lump, 2024, Stoneware, slip, underglaze, and glaze, 9h x 7w x 7d in
Helios, 2024,Stoneware and glaze, 10h x 8 1/2w x 8d in
Creature, 2024, Stoneware, slip, underglaze, glaze, and acrylic paint, 5 1/2h x 11w x 11d in
