From a trio of small-scale silkscreen prints produced with Haft-Candell that capture imagery from a series of “flip books” she created from multiple, small-scale watercolors. Depicted within the series of books are her familiar vocabulary of forms; knots, combs, braids, chains, and loops. For the artist, each of these symbols carry both social histories and personal memories, and they appear repeatedly across her ceramic sculptures and works on paper.
Often Haft-Candell’s ceramic work appears to teeter between motion and stasis; forms appear ready to fold up on themselves, or perhaps stretch apart. Using the flip-book structure, Haft-Candell is able to offer these forms a looped movement through their illustrated animation. Three such illustrations have been selected for this print series and behave almost like film stills.
Often Haft-Candell’s ceramic work appears to teeter between motion and stasis; forms appear ready to fold up on themselves, or perhaps stretch apart. Using the flip-book structure, Haft-Candell is able to offer these forms a looped movement through their illustrated animation. Three such illustrations have been selected for this print series and behave almost like film stills.
Julia Haft-Candell (b. 1982, Oakland, CA) is a Los Angeles-based artist working in ceramic sculpture. Haft-Candell received a B.A. from University of California, Davis before graduating from the MFA program at California State University, Long Beach in 2010. She spent a summer residency in 2016 at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Madison, ME, and has been awarded multiple grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation and most recently the California Community Foundation Fellowship in 2019. Recent exhibitions include A Soft Grid at Candice Madey, New York, New York and Interlocking at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Focusing on a litany of historically resonant lines and patterns, Haft-Candell uses recurring symbols containing adaptable meanings to speak to a greater philosophical understanding of the familiar. In Julia’s words: “I work intuitively—my pieces are expressive, yet rooted in a conceptual framework that questions language, semiotics, identity, and gender. These new sculptures refer to symbols of intersection, such as hands interlocking, a foot stomping on mud, or water slipping between fingers.” Read More
Focusing on a litany of historically resonant lines and patterns, Haft-Candell uses recurring symbols containing adaptable meanings to speak to a greater philosophical understanding of the familiar. In Julia’s words: “I work intuitively—my pieces are expressive, yet rooted in a conceptual framework that questions language, semiotics, identity, and gender. These new sculptures refer to symbols of intersection, such as hands interlocking, a foot stomping on mud, or water slipping between fingers.” Read More
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