12/06/2026
The residency of … Corwyn Lund (CA)
Like an early photographer loading chemically sensitized plates into a camera, Corwyn Lund’s work starts by glazing large ceramic panels and loading them directly into the kiln. Over long exposures within this camera obscura (Latin for ‘darkened chamber) his glazed surfaces record the event of their own transformation by extreme heat and light. The resulting ‘glaze pictures’, as the artist refers to them, ranged from the idyllic to the visceral. His first works evoked blurred photos of nature by allowing chemistry, gravity, and fire to contribute in unpredictable ways. Lund moved on to slumping even larger glazed panels over compositions of kiln posts, bricks, discarded shrink slabs – to make bas reliefs. In the world outside the kiln, they seem to be analogies for climate change and the threats of a nuclearized world: A kiln’s walls turned inside-out, releasing terrifying heat; mysterious forms surfacing from pools of glaze like running lava.
Lund’s residency focused on the laying of ready-made architectural tiles over 3D-printed, CNC milled and found refractory forms (kiln furniture/bricks, discarded shrinking slabs, etc.) to build relief compositions that would be revealed by and through the process of firing. He worked across scales, producing individual pieces and series of works up to 60 x 120 cm, and in both oxidization and reduction firings.
Website: www.corwynlund.com
Acknowledgements: council
Winifred Shantz Award
