Sabrina Skinner

Artist in Residence, 2025

Sabrina Skinner is a graduate of the University of West Georgia, having earned a BFA in Ceramics and a BA in Art History. He is currently in his final year as a Ceramics Post Baccalaureate student at the Hartford Art School. Creating highly textural ceramic sculptures, his work explores personal symbolic imagery to evoke subtle narratives of fantasy, subjective memory, and allegories of human experience. Skinner's work has been shown in the 2023 Strictly Functional Pottery National Show at the Lancaster Museum of Art, the 7th Louisiana Biennial at Louisiana Tech, Meet Me At The Intersection at the 2024 NCECA Conference, the 2024 Small Favors show at The Clay Studio, and the 2025 Off Center International Ceramics Competition.

Artist Statement:

I make reliquaries. Memorials, sculptures that exist alone or form altars; my work acts to contain disjointed memories, thoughts, and desires within the vessel of clay. Objects that are sired by personal metaphors, their creation immortalizes transient moments. From large installations to functional pottery, I connect interpersonal symbolism and popular culture through the depiction of surreal arranged imagery. Through the use of narrative devices to convey deeper meanings within the form, I illustrate personal stories within fantastical scenes. Drawing inspiration from historical forms, a sense of nostalgia and (dis)comfort remain in the familiar silhouettes of home and nature. By joining together abstraction and realism, an allegory of truth emerges. Where through odd collages of repeated symbols and mundane objects, the weight of memory takes shape.

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