Elizabeth Mazza

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Elizabeth Mazza's work poses a challenge to the "vessel" concept and what is technically defined as such. Each piece possesses some vestigial trait of a vessel (an opening, a handle, a hollow body) while boldly experimenting with sculptural iterations on the form. Ridges, grooves, and whimsical extrusions seem to play the traditional role of "handles" while tiny openings read like winking reminders of original functions that were purposefully diminished.

Elizabeth's body of work conveys a rejection of traditional symmetry in favor of an aesthetic vocabulary infused with movement and asymmetry. There is a deliberate quest for off-kilter arrangements and evocations of the most sublime, yet common, asymmetries found in nature: ripples on water, wind blowing through a meadow, or a person's facial features. The sense of freedom and fantasy in Elizabeth's work ignites curiosity in the viewer. 
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