CASEY ZABLOCKI – POTENTIAL OF PIGMENT

Potential of Pigment captures a defining moment in Casey Zablocki's practice: the exploration of the elemental and the experimental. Signature woodfired forms—monumental vessels marked by the rugged character of the Montana landscape—are now recast with mineral-rich hues and locally-dug porcelain slips. As a result, pieces brim with subtlety and saturation. Terrestrial surfaces evolve into something unexpected and expressive. Here, Zablocki balances grounded materiality with a palette of possibility. Navigating the tension between restraint and resplendence, each totem is tinted with pigment and punctuated with texture, shifting the viewer's perceptions of light and form, of earth and the imagination. Above all, Potential of Pigment showcases an artist suspended between ceramic tradition and terrain unfamiliar.