Nicole Cherubini

Have you ever dropped something and had it land just so, as if it had been placed by an invisible hand making an unexpectedly graceful composition? All of Nicole Cherubini’s sculptures feel like that. They are to pottery what James Joyce’s novels were to prose, assembled into gorgeous, fractured constructions that make a kind of sense, but only on a subterranean level that can be explored but never fully. Her most recent work continues a long-running smash-and-grab campaign on the history of ceramics. The materials themselves have an archaic feeling: white earthenware, terra-cotta, and cast bronze, all of which were prevalent in the ancient Mediterranean.