Nate Cassie American, b. 1970

"There is a famous print by Franciso Goya, it's called Seated Giant. I was thinking about that piece, and again they sort of have this kind of physicality to them that reminds me of a large body. A lot of the pieces in the show have to do with transition or transformation or sort of change in general. The Metropolitan Museum has a copy of that print, and saw it on their website, I like that, the curator wrote about that piece, “ He turns his head toward us as if roused from deep thought, slumber, or despondency. Perhaps he had been awaiting the dawning of a new day and turns because that moment has come. ” So that idea of like this thing about to happen. This transformational change is a theme that I think runs through a lot of the work. " - Nate Cassie Interview Quote


"They are made on a spinning wheel, but not a mechanical one or not a motorized one. It's called a Banding wheel. It looks like a disc that spins and has barring and you can spin it around. And so they are coiled up, using coils and clay that have been pounded thin to kind of create the shape, but in the making of them sometimes they will start to get off center a little bit, and sometimes then ill exaggerate that to kind of create a more irregular form. Because I like that notion that they are not symmetrical, that they have this sort of sway. They also kind of when they are together they sort of lean into one another a little bit like there's almost a gravitational pull between or something between them. Or traction. Because they are sculptures they look different from all of the different sides. So when you walk around you see this sort of irregularity."- Nate Cassie