TAYLOR KIBBY
Taylor Kibby (b.1992) is a sculptor and ceramic artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work meditates on ideas surrounding memory, identity, and change. Through craft materials such as clay, glass beads, and textiles she creates objects that straddle the boundaries between ideas and forms. The work is both hard and soft, open and closed, known and unknown. These sculptures seek to engage with the idea that change is a constant and what we understand as truth is fallible and always moving. She is curious how the narratives around selfhood shift and stretch as we balance protection and vulnerability.
Kibby took a circuitous route to sculpture, first earning her BS in Baking and Pastry from Johnson and Wales University before earning an MFA from the Applied Craft and Design program at PNCA. She has participated in residencies at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME (2018) as well as Township 10, Marshall, NC (2021) and Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO (2021) as well as being a finalist for the Hopper Prize (2021). She has exhibited work with numerous galleries both nationally and internationally including Stroll Garden (Los Angeles, 2023), Egg Collective (New York, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), Bakersfield Museum of Art (Bakersfield, 2022), Amelie, Maison d’Art (Paris, 2022), Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica, 2021, 2023), and Maho Kubota Gallery (Tokyo, 2020, 2021).
Double Skin 11
Terra cotta, thread, steel wire, glass beads
33”H x 49”W x 5”D
It made you look like destiny
Porcelain, embroidery thread, steel mesh
28”H x 17”W x 17”D
We don’t know the end
Terracotta, embroidery thread, steel mesh
32”H x 24”W x 24”D
Now, or soon
Glass beads, thread, resin
38”H x 4”W x 3”D
My life runs as it is spun
Glass beads, embroidery thread, resin
33”H x 4”W x 2”D
“The intensive repetition of making these works leaves irregularities that mark each work with my hand and brings to the fore ideas surrounding imperfection, control, and beauty. Using materials that work with a logic of their own, and thus bowing to forces outside of my control, allows me to revel in the beauty of a vision not wholly my own. ”
— Taylor Kibby