About

Ben Orkin has always used clay as language. The artist builds ceramic forms which act as words, sentences, or human bodies. No one piece exists in isolation. They are aware of each other. They are in dialogue with each other. One piece affects the next like the artist’s own chain of thoughts. Indeed, Orkin’s practice is the morphing and growing of these thoughts into shapes. The sensuous forms breed out from the subtleties of human interaction and from explorations around queer histories; they unfurl wildly like the natural world; they grow tectonic like the skeleton of the city. Orkin breeds …