Ceramic Sculpture · Los Angeles
Mark
Jolles
Hand-built clay, high-fired glazes, and faces exhumed from the imagination. A body of ceramic sculpture — lost heads, nudes, vessels, friezes, romantic poses.
Series 01
Lost Heads of the Modotpetoc Tribe
Memorial masks exhumed from ancient inland sand dunes beneath San Francisco's Civic Center. Icons for the living and the dead.
Series 02
Nudes & Genetalia
Figurative sculpture — characters posed in repose, in transit, in motion. Malvina, Mr. Feldman, Tanya on a chaise lounge, and the whole neighborhood.
Series 03
Little Boxes
Ticky Tacky Little Boxes — All On The Hill
Series 04
Romantics
"The way you tell your story online can make all the difference." — Curtis Goldstein
About
Mark Who?
Sculptor working in clay, high-fire glazes, and the long memory of form. Based in Los Angeles, working in a city that has lived through every earthquake it can remember.
The Modotpetoc series imagines an indigenous tribe whose memorial masks — exhumed from sand dunes beneath the civic center of San Francisco — were worn in ceremonial trance to honor those who survived cataclysm.
Modern Modotpetoc hang masks on the south walls of their homes. As sentries, the masks welcome the rumbles of the beloved deceased.
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Studio
Los Angeles, California
Available for commissions, gallery representation, and studio visits.
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