About

Kylie Marden is a ceramic artist and illustrator working primarily as a wheelworker and surface designer. Her work centers around themes of catharsis, vulnerability, growth, and abstraction of the human form. Marden's work brings complex emotions to the surface, as both a way to connect and legitimize intangible experiences. 

Kylie Marden is a Ceramics Educator working with learners of all ages, and in addition holds the position of Ceramic Technician at The New Art Center, Newton MA. 

Statement

In my craft as both a potter and illustrator, I am interested in creating touching narratives on my ceramic surfaces. Through intentional and improvised carving; curious, playful, and puzzling stories emerge. Circling around the skin of a mug, or the stretch of a plate, my work encourages the user to engage. Human and animal companions look quizzically at each other, city buildings bend and topple into one another. I aim to pull my participants into the story, encouraging them to draw their own conclusions through touch and interaction. Primarily working with forms of traditional function, my work seeps into cabinets and lands on nightstands. My hope is to create cherished objects that provide a sense of wonder and pause for the spaces they live within. Through my carvings, my passing memories and experiences become archival, a documentation and distortion of the world I experience around me.