Meet the Sculptor Making Waves in Brooklyn
When Simone Bodmer-Turner began experimenting with clay in 2014, as a creative outlet from her day job at a start-up, the artist fell in love with the process. “It’s so…quiet,” she half whispers during a recent visit to her sun-dappled Brooklyn studio. The work itself is equally hushed: soft, undulating shapes, glazed in a spectrum of dreamy whites. “I was so interested in form making that I put color on the back burner,” she notes of her signature restrained palette. Hand-built vessels made for the florist Saipua gave way to slip-cast series, allowing her to streamline her production process and become more ambitious in her fine-art practice. In 2019 she started experimenting with chairs, and one of her most recent, pictured, features a swooping, ever-so-slightly cantilevered seat. Early in the pandemic she created a gypsum wall in her studio that was loosely inspired by artist Valentine Schlegel. Now she’s working on several similar architectural interventions for private residences in New York and abroad.
It all feeds her latest project: a solo show this month at New York City’s Matter gallery, where she will unveil a console, chairs, lights, and sculptures—most of it in clay. These days she doesn’t really see herself as a ceramist. Rather, she says, “The work is just sculpture and clay is the medium.” simonebodmerturner.com
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