Using ceramic surfaces as both her canvas and subject matter, Illume, a hand-painted wall installation, a historically-inspired contemporary representation and celebration of the Chinese export porcelain of the 18th century. Illume is contemporary chinoiserie, a popular seventeenth and eighteenth-century aesthetic that persists. 

Composed of 63 earthenware hand-painted plates, the glazed surfaces of the plates collectively become a fragmented canvas for a delicate, painterly re-rendering of a blue and white lidded jar sourced from an eighteenth-century French watercolor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With a shimmering 22-karat gold gilded background, Illume contemporizes historic decorative arts.

Materials: 45 hand-painted earthenware plates with underglaze, glaze and 22 karat gold luster

Dimensions: 50w x 90h x 1.5d inches