Paloma Wall
February 7 - 28, 2025
Opening Reception Friday, February 7 6-9pm
Elephant is happy to welcome Paloma Wall back to the gallery for New Relics, a solo exhibition of recent ceramic work. Wall was an important part of To Get to the Other Side: A Death and Time Travel Show in 2021. We’re very excited to now fill the gallery with this artist’s powerful sculpture.
Wall uses handbuilding techniques (coiling, pinching, extruding, and rolling slabs of clay) to create vessels and other forms that deal with embedded memories of her childhood and the process of grieving.
Wall’s work is intimately related to the human body. It is pierced and painted, curved, rounded and both fragile and robust. It mirrors human emotion, especially the feeling of emptiness that accompanies loss. Wall’s work often contains holes and this negative space is crucial to our understanding of her work. Like a grieving person, the absences demand attention and test the structure of the body. And in the end the beauty of these forms comes from their resilience - their ability to withstand and be shaped by their history.
Press inquiries contact alex@elephantgallery.com
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Paloma Wall graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media, minoring in Painting and Printmaking in 2011, and currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia. Wall has shown her work across the region including; 4W- Space (Los Angeles, CA), Elephant Gallery (Nashville, TN), Reynolds Gallery(Richmond, VA), and during Capital One’s NCECCA 2024 (Richmond, VA). Her works are also held in many private collections.