ARTIST ADRIAN ARLEO has been molding magic from clay for over forty years. Her arresting sculpture combines human, animal, and natural imagery to create a kind of emotional and poetic power. It often suggests a vital interconnection between the human and nonhuman realms, the imagery arising from associations, concerns and obsessions that are at once intimate and universal. Her work frequently references mythology and archetypes in addressing our vulnerability amid changing personal, environmental, and political realities. By focusing on older, more mysterious ways of seeing the world, she creates space for edges of consciousness and deeper levels of awareness suggest themselves.

 

_{SIRENS OF RUTINO, 2012
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic, gold leaf, metal base and rod. 52 x 18 x 16″}

 

_{GREAT GREYS, 2021
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic, gold leaf. 22.5 x 18 x 15”.}

 

_{GREAT GREYS, 2021, detail.}

 

_{SIREN WITH PALM, 2012
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic, gold leaf. 18 x 13 x 12″.}

 

_{PASTURE METAMORPHOSIS, 2011
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic. 18.5 x 22 x 13″.}

 

_{ATTENTI AL CANE, 2012
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic. 13.5 x 13 x 8″.}

 

_{APPARITION II, 2021. (Seated figure with leafy dog.)
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic, gold leaf. 23 x 21 x 13”.}

 

_{CANOPY, VARIATION ON ROMULUS AND REMUS, 2011
Clay, glaze, wax, encaustic, gold leaf. 25 x 27 x 14″.}

 

_{CANOPY, VARIATION ON ROMULUS AND REMUS, 2011, detail.}

 

_{HEARD III, 2017
Clay, glaze, wax encaustic. 18.5 x 14 x 10”.}