Beecroft vanessa

from performance
to sculpture and vice versa
pio pico gallery
los angeles

photography and interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
All artworks Copyright VANESSA BEECROFT and Courtesy of PIO PICO

LANDSCAPE, 2017, CERAMIC ARTIST MADE WOOD PEDESTALS, LOS ANGELES, 2017

OLIVIER ZAHM — Is it the first time you will show these sculptures?

VANESSA BEECROFT — It’s the first time for this new body of work, which is in ceramic. Before, a few were exhibited in bronze. But this is an all-ceramic show.

OLIVIER ZAHM — Everything?

VANESSA BEECROFT — In clay that was fired.

OLIVIER ZAHM — And painted?

VANESSA BEECROFT — Sometimes painted with beeswax. And there is also painting in oil, but it’s mainly clay and beeswax.

OLIVIER ZAHM — You also decided to show the drawings that you’ve kept to yourself for a long time.

VANESSA BEECROFT — I kept the drawings for…