Melissa Shook

Installations

Clay

“Clay” is an installation of 1,000 clay female figures, 2”-6” tall, each unique, many glazed. The installation includes a grid of six self-portraits of my aging torso pulled and pressed as though it were made of …

Landscape

“Landscape” is an installation of hundreds of small pots pinched from white, brown and porcelain clay. Some have slip on the outside. All have glazed interiors. The dimensions of the piece are approximately four feet…

50 lbs of Clay

50 lbs. of Clay is a simple, elegant installation using both flat and wall surfaces. Each ceramic piece ranges from 3” to 6” and is fired with a wash of copper to give a sense of the organic – clots of fossilized m…

Porcelain Boxes

“More than 100 Porcelain Boxes” was an exercise in memorial making for a very important relationship that ended badly. The compulsion to make these very beautiful, fragile, irregular and quirky boxes was undoubtedly …