Elisabeth Walden

Reimagine Fat

 

Member profile details

First name
Elisabeth
Last name
Walden
Business Name
Reimagine Fat
City
Milwaukie
State
OR
Public Studio Phone
914 471-0679
Instagram URL
@elisabeth.b.walden
Facebook Page URL
 

Art Work Description

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Firing Methods
  • Gas
  • Electric
  • Mid-Range
Types of Clay Used
  • White Earthenware
  • Terra Cotta
  • Stoneware
Forming Methods and Techniques
  • Slabs
  • Pinched
  • Molded
  • Hand Built
  • Draped
  • Coil
  • Carved
Finishing Methods and Techniques
  • Dip or Poured Glazes
  • Raw
  • Oxides
  • Washes
Forms Types
  • Vase
  • Flower Vases
  • Decorative Vases
  • Bud Vase
  • Planters
  • Vessel
  • Organic
  • Figurative
Artwork Description
  • Functional
  • Non-Functional
  • Garden
  • Figurative
  • Sculpture
  • Vessel
  • Organic
  • Modern
  • Earthy
  • Complex
Artist Statement
My art originates in my struggle as a queer fat woman to construct an embodied, loving representation of my body in spite of huge social pressure to hate myself because of it. Though much of my earlier work focused on representing my own fat, female body in drawing, painting and printmaking, I now mostly make figurative ceramic planters and vases depicting fat bodies. I hope this work causes the viewer to reconsider their ideas about beauty, and to build their empathy for fat people, though I am satisfied when the response is simply to stop and smell the plants
Biography
Elisabeth Walden (b. 1987) is an artist, printmaker and ceramicist based in Portland, OR. Her work explores her relationship with her fat, female body, as shaped by contemporary American culture and art history using a variety of painting, printmaking, ceramic, sculptural and experimental mixed-media techniques. Elisabeth has taught printmaking to artists of all ages at the University of New Haven and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, where she was the Education Coordinator. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including a solo shows at Brown University in 2015 and the Multnomah Arts Center in 2019. She received her BA from Yale University in 2009 and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013.

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