The Work:
Kathie Gatto-Gurney’s work as a ceramic sculptor is influenced by her experience as a dancer. She strives to translate fluid motion into solid form, so that it bends and twists from all perspectives. She considers the positive and negative spaces and allows the intuitive process to guide her discoveries. These tangled branches and interwoven grotto-like clay sculptures, ranging from one to five feet high, were inspired by Gatto-Gurney’s childhood moments spent in silence alongside Catholic statues. Her process seeks to find the aliveness between something improvisational and something composed.