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Grace Sachi Troxell: Red Poppy

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Grace Sachi Troxell, Red Poppy, 2024, 16 1/4 x 15 x 9 inches, ceramic and glaze

Value: $800

Starting Bid: $200

This sculpture was made in response to Louise Glück’s poem The Red Poppy in The Wild Iris. As an educator, I have students read from The Wild Iris, select a poem, memorize the poem, and interpret it in clay. I work alongside the students interpreting a poem of my own choosing from the book. This poem speaks to an opening and closing of one’s body, an interconnectedness, and an emotional openness that feels reminiscent of the sculptures in my exhibition, this pot is made of earth and when it breaks, my father laughs, at Open Source.

Grace Sachi Troxell is a sculptor based in New York. She received a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College, a Post-Graduate certificate in painting from the Glasgow School of Art, and an MFA from Cornell University. She has been artist in residence at Skowhegan, Sharpe – Walentas, MacDowell, Yaddo, Sculpture Space, the Studios at MASSMoCa, Woodstock Byrdcliffe, Willapa Bay AiR, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, Dumfries House, Scotland, and The International Textile Art Symposium, Daugavpils Rothko Center, Latvia. Troxell has had solo exhibitions at Open Source, Brooklyn, NY, Wave Hill, NY, NY; Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO; Neighbors, Ithaca, NY; The Hartnett Gallery at The University of Rochester, and The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hamilton College.