Portrait of Jennifer Rochlin. Photo: Maya Fuhr
Book Launch & Signing: Jennifer Rochlin’s ‘Wild is the Wind’ from Zolo Press
Celebrating the release of artist Jennifer Rochlin’s first monograph ‘Wild is the Wind’ from Zolo Press, please join us for a book launch and signing at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street.
‘Wild is the Wind’ is a catalyst for autobiographical and cultural storytelling spanning seven years and featuring more than 40 works. Illustrated with 131 color plates, the book is a collection of feelings, memories, and experiences shaped as hand-built clay vessels that defy conventional categories of both contemporary art and traditional craft.
The publication features essays by journalist and writer Alexis Okeowo and artist Tony Marsh, as well as a series of diary-like entries by Rochlin herself, pairing short narratives with specific pieces and the events that unleash them. 'Wild is the Wind’ is co-published by Zolo Press and Sorry We're Closed, Brussels.
Copies of ‘Wild is the Wind’ will be available for purchase at the launch and Jennifer Rochlin will be onsite to sign books.
This event is free; however, registration is recommended.
About Jennifer Rochlin
Jennifer Rochlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968 and lives in Los Angeles, California. She received a Master of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, participated in an exchange at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany in 1998, and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1991. Rochlin’s work has been featured in group exhibitions such as Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (2011); Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (2011); MKE-LAX, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI (2012); Venice Beach Biennial, in conjunction with Made in LA 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Venice, CA (2012); Sculptures, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA (2013); Machine Project Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, CA (2014); Sex Pot, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA (2016); The Brightsiders, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA (2017); and Claypop, Deitch, New York, NY (2022); Brigid Berlin- The Heaviest, Vito Schnabel, New York, NY (2023); Terra Recognita: A Ceramic Story, Mariane Ibrahim, Chicago, IL (2023); and Clay Pop, Deitch, Los Angeles, CA (2023), LA Story, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles,CA (2024). Rochlin is the recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from the Belle Foundation (2015) and the Durfee Foundation ARC grant (2007). She has had solo exhibitions at Mariane Ibrahim, Paris (2024), Hauser & Wirth, New York, New York (2024), Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium (2022); Shrine Gallery, New York, NY (2022); The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2020); and Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France (2018)amongst others. Her work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA and The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Trained as a painter, Jennifer Rochlin took up ceramics as a way to expand her painting practice into three dimensions. Rochlin uses terra cotta clay to handbuild vessels in coil and slab methods, creating familiar forms that echo the long history of ceramics. Undulating with dents and bulges, Rochlin’s vessels reject direct homage, however, in favor of suggesting the unpredictable, beautiful variance of human bodies: these are not production pots but are something apart, individual and free. Her brushy, expressive gestures in underglaze and glaze reside both comfortably and in contrast to the sgraffito drawing method she also employs. Ranging from Botticelli’s Venus to Wonder Woman to P22 (the mountain lion made famous by living near the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park), the images on Rochlin’s vessels document the ongoing narrative of her life but also point to the depth and breadth of time and history of which we are all a part.
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