Adero Wilard | Pattern and Color on the Clay Surface
VIRTUAL ARTIST TALK
Adero Willard brings us along her journey of how she developed her colorful layered patterned surfaces, and how her intricate visual dialogue presents for her endless possibilities for exploring identity, metaphor, materiality, and design.
The complex clay surfaces of the Entangle series (recently on show in Clay Art Center’s Concepts In Clay) are informed by fabric, ornamentation, and the human figure. Adero uses resist and color variation to play with the idea of hiding and revealing; using surface decoration to bring forward or camouflage the nature of sculptural form.
*This Artist Talk was originally aired May 11th, 2021, 7 - 8 PM Eastern Time via Zoom.
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Adero Willard
is an artist and educator living in Western Massachusetts. She received a BFA at Alfred University in 1995 and MFA at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2006. She completed a one-year residency at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine. Nationally and internationally, Adero has exhibited work in solo and group galleries, craft shows, and pottery invitationals. Her work has been featured in a number of publications and books on ceramics.
Her work was recently a part of Clay Art Center’s online exhibition Concepts In Clay, which can be seen here.