ANALUISA CORRIGAN

Analuisa Corrigan first began working with clay while she was interning at an advertising agency her senior year of Parsons School of Design. She bought a bag of clay to decompress after spending all day looking at a screen in her office. She taught herself how to make ceramics by watching YouTube videos on the subject. Quickly, she became obsessed with the medium. Today, Corrigan, who splits her time between New York and Los Angeles, creates sculpture, lighting, and vessels out of clay. Her creations straddle the line between fine art and functionality. “I think creating something without function, to me, felt a bit incomplete,” Corrigan said in an interview with Soft Punk Magazine. Inspired by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Henry Moore, and Joan Miro, as well as the movements of modern dancers, Corrigan’s sculptural objects have distinctly organic forms that recall pearls in oyster shells, bodies locked in an embrace, and pieces of bleached coral. Sometimes sanded after they are fired in order to have rough, tactile surfaces, the ceramic pieces—and especially Corrigan’s lights—are meant to be lived with every day. Ultimately, Corrigan is concerned with the “fragility and integrity of clay as a material and practice, where [I] value the exchange between process and time.”