Gabriela Vainsencher's Porcelain Sculptures at Asya Geisberg Gallery

Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York is presenting 'Basis', a solo exhibition of porcelain sculptures by Gabriela Vainsencher. This is the artist's second show at the gallery. Vainsencher shifts from a bodily focus on fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood toward a more structural and formally experimental approach. She manipulates clay with techniques like pinching, carving, and contrasting matte and shiny glazes to evoke drawing, painting, or printmaking. The white marks of ultrasounds resemble charcoal and swirl in a primordial soup within the black of the womb. The works reference antiquity through amphora vase shapes and portrait cameos, but twist them into asymmetric, unbalanced silhouettes. 'Hope', the largest piece, revisits a woman squeezed upside down in a farcical manner.