LIC, NY - November 12th to December 10th, 2025

“Reconfigure brings together contemporary ceramic artists whose work embraces fragmentation and reinvention. Borrowing Virginia Woolf’s description of Ethel Smyth as “a blaster of rocks and the maker of bridges,” the exhibition foregrounds the dual necessity of deconstruction and construction—of breaking apart in order to reimagine possibility. As Lauren Elgin writes in Art Monsters, “fracturing and connecting are the essence of art.” This exhibition takes that idea of provocation, presenting work that destabilizes the familiar while also offering new configurations of meaning and relation. By dismantling established forms, the artists uncover overlooked narratives, amplify silenced voices, and make space for alternative structures of knowing and being. In both form and concept, this exhibition insists on ceramics as a cite of transformation—an art of breaking down and making anew.”

Corran Shrimpton (Curator)

LIC-A Gallery