STRATA © Katy Fischer 2017, hand-built and custom-glazed ceramic tile and Byzantine smalti glass tile, NYCT Bay Ridge Avenue Station, Brooklyn NY
Katy Fischer’s ceramic sculpture is reminiscent of archeological discoveries.
She is inspired by the way ancient artifacts become evocatively abstract shapes once they are broken, weathered and displaced, not unlike the bits of debris deposited around the city.
The shard-like fragments read as both found and made, broken and whole, abstract and representational and suggest intriguing connections and possible histories.