Ceramics Now, Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno, Gina Tibbott

Ceramics Now
Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno, Gina Tibbott

Opening Reception | Thursday, May 8, 2025 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view May 8 – June 13, 2025

The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by our 2024 artists in residence: Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno, and Gina Tibbott. Greenwich House Pottery’s Artist Residency Program fosters artistic growth by providing makers time, space, materials, and a creative community to explore and generate new bodies of work in ceramics in vibrant New York City.

Daniel Barragán is an El Paso, Texas-born, New York City-based artist who works mostly in painting and sculpture. Through his artwork, Barragán seeks to disrupt the new American landscape, explore the shape of time, and ask questions about cultural representation, ownership, assimilation, and sexual identity, with a focus on the American Southwest. During his residency, Barragán developed a project that uses southwestern pottery and imagery drawn from punk, rock, and metal music to turn a critical eye towards the U.S./Mexico border.

Carson Culp is a potter trained in the tradition of Bernard Leach, a British studio potter respected for his simple and utilitarian forms. Culp has spent the past two years on an international residency tour, including at studios such as Taller de Terreno (BCS, Mexico), La Meridiana International School of Ceramics (Tuscany, Italy), and Peters Valley School of Craft (Layton, New Jersey). Culp believes in bringing modern approaches to traditional pottery techniques and spent his residency exploring and growing his voice as a potter.

Kristy Moreno is a California-based artist who uses aesthetics influenced by Southern California counter cultures, cartoons from the 1990s, and folklore to create figurative work that imagines fictional communities in a decolonized future who are free from patriarchal structures. During her residency, Moreno experimented with a range of matte and gloss mid- and low-fire glazes to better compliment her recent work, and took time for creative exploration.

Gina Tibbott is a New York City-based artist whose ceramics practice is informed by her years working as a field archeologist. During her residency, Tibbott used Gisela Richter’s The Craft of Athenian Pottery published in 1923 as a jumping off point to create new work based on ancient forms. The manual was written with technical insight provided by Maude Robinson (Pottery Director, 1911 – 1941). Thus, Tibbott collaborated not only with ancient Athenian potters through her project, but also with the Pottery’s first director.