KANIKA SIRCAR

Kanika Sircar’s handbuilt stoneware forms are stained with slips, scribbled over with ceramic-pencils, and marked with carving tools. Iron oxide images that include texts, calligraphy or graffiti are layered onto them. Inscriptions and lettering are often faded or fragmentary, expressing messages that may be variously interpreted—palimpsests of color, shape, and meaning attacked by time.

She works in series, most recently on the politics and personal experience of global warming. Her “Smoke” vessels refer to chimneys or antique furnaces. Surface imagery includes dark, sooty clouds, medieval diagrams of the solar system, and 19th century maps of Mars. Fragments of texts on these pieces are from Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius and poems by Rumi or Charles Bukowski.

She lives in Washington, DC, shows her work at local galleries and in regional or national group exhibitions. Her work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, with images often published in Ceramics Monthly. She was educated at Smith College and The University of Chicago.

Contact: paulinesiple@verizon.net
Website: www.kanikasircar.com
Instagram: @kanikasircar
Facebook: /KanikaSircar.Artist

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