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A group show curated by Alto Beta for the Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University
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Pilar Wiley
A Push Can Make Falling
March 23 - April 19, 2025
Hosted at Ruth Gallery, Pasadena
Forerunner, 2025
Glazed Ceramic
21.25 x 12.5 x 21.25 inches
7.75 x 9 x 9 inches
dimensions variable
​Pilar Wiley’s solo ceramic sculpture show, A Push Can Make Falling, assembles a dynamic cast of biomorphic abstract entities cavorting on the gallery floor like a team of amoebic players on a field. The boundaries between plant and animal, architecture and organic life, and mutation as bug or feature are all questioned.
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Pilar has walked her years of experience coil-building substantial and elegant vessels into a new zone of animated possibility- pseudopods extend in all directions, probing into the realm of narrative and mysterious origins. In addition to a deep surrender to process, the work is informed by an array of global modernist and post-modernist sources from art history, film, and literature.
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Are we witnessing an Isamu Noguchi playground come to sentient life? What if the alien from John Carpenter’s The Thing had landed amidst Tropical Modernism practitioners in Sri Lanka or Brazil rather than scientists in the arctic? Generously, Pilar has provided a rich cast of characters… you the viewer can complete the artwork with your own imagination and plot. ​​
Pilar Wiley makes ceramics in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited with Sotheby’s in New York, Los Angeles, Aspen, East Hampton, and Palm Beach. Solo shows include Whitesnake at Orthodox, Los Angeles, and Building & Grounds at Household, Los Angeles. Her pieces have been featured in group shows in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, and Mexico City, as well as at art fairs such as NADA, Miami and Paramount Ranch, Los Angeles. She has been a resident artist at the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University and the Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In May 2025, she will have a two-person show with Matt Rich at The Fold, Los Angeles.