2023, 9" x 9" x 1"
This artist book was produced together with the NATURE TO THE DOGS exhibition at Alfred University. Through visual poetry as well as poetic, narrative, and academic writing, this book explores the theoretical matrices of the show. These matrices grew out of the sculptures like so many Lichtenberg figures: the more I thought about them, the more uncontrollable they became. The NATURE TO THE DOGS artist book was submitted to the Scholes Library MFA Collection in lieu of the standard blue booklet. You can access a free, low-resolution PDF of this book here: https://aura.alfred.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/871ad3d0-e9d8-4c41-a96a-e0f7da856487/content
2023, NA
2022, 19"H x 30'' W x 17''D, Media: Porcelain, Firing Process: Reduction
2023, 31”H x 43”W x 33”D, Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Reduction
2022, 28"H x 42"W x 20"D, Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Firing Process: Reduction
2023, 14"H x 30"W x 12"D, Media: Mixed Media, Porcelain, Stoneware, Firing Process: Reduction
2024, 28”H x 28”W x 10”D
2024, 28”H x 28”W x 10”D, Media: Mixed Media, Stoneware, Wild Clay/Raw Clay, Firing Process: Reduction
2024, 23"H x 23"W x 4"D, Media: Mixed Media, Stoneware, Wild Clay/Raw Clay, Firing Process: Reduction
2023, 15"H x 15"W x 17"D , Media: Earthenware / Terracotta, Mixed Media, Non-clay, Stoneware, Firing Process: Reduction
Artist Statement
My artistic practice revolves around two key arenas: visual art that explores ideas and metaphors derived from environmental philosophy, and ecocritical research and writing as applied to contemporary ceramics. Each arena informs the other: they are held together by the connective threads of materialism, an examination of systems and relations, and a broader interrogation of ecological values and meanings.
Increasingly, I have been drawn to the geopoetics of ceramic materials and the expansive, profoundly unsettling, feelings these geopoetics provoke. My most recent body of work was titled 'She Who Vomited Out Her Own Metals,' a phrase borrowed from Martin Howse's strange yellow book, Becoming Geological. Inside the kiln, I attempted my own form of geologic decomposition and magmic reincorporation. I metabolized the detritus, the tailings, from my old work into something new. I recycled. After all, the Earth consumes and recreates itself constantly: its ceramic outsides become its insides, and vice versa. We are molded by an infinity of relations too vast to comprehend, and guided, in the words of Martin Howse, by "strange, moribund, and algorithmic loop[s].'
Bio
Rose Schreiber (b. 1988) is a ceramic artist from Chicago, USA. Currently, she is Visiting Professor in Ceramic Art at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. Through her artwork and research, Rose focuses on the intersection of environmental philosophy and ceramic art and materials–exploring issues of land, power, extraction, the planetary imaginary, and geologic poetics. Outside of the studio, Rose has been an organizer, editor, and writer for the Ceramic Materials Atlas, a collaborative storytelling and environmental humanities project linking global industry, environmental ethics, and contemporary ceramics. For her contributions to the Ceramic Materials Atlas, she was awarded the 2023 inaugural Environmental Sustainability Fellowship from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).Rose’s ceramic work was recently on view at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California, as well as at the Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, where it received a New Talent Award. After graduating from the Ceramics MFA program at Alfred University in 2023, Rose was the 2023-2024 Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Ceramic Research Center (ICRC) at the University of Kansas. Prior to ceramics, Rose completed an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Past translation projects focused on Latin American literature through an ecocritical lens.