Fantastic profile on Matt Wedel in the current January 2016 issue of Cincinnati Magazine – 

“There’s a lot of muscle memory in those pieces,” Wedel says of the botanical-succuli series, which was begun during the four years he lived in Southern California. “Moving away from that California landscape, I think those images became looser and more abstracted. The petals became more tongue-like or just a lot less regimented in terms of the way I was making [them]. There was a systematic way of making that I was doing with some of those older pieces that at a certain point my hand began to not do…and so it freed me to be able to put the petals where they wanted to go instead of falling into a system. And I think that decision led to them being a lot more wild and less predictable.”

Visit our website to see works by Matt Wedel from his recent L.A. Louver exhibition Peaceable Fruit. 

IMAGES: (clockwise from the top) Cincinnati Magazine spread; Flower tree, 2015, ceramic, 16 ½ x 20 ½ x 25 in. (41.9 x 52.1 x 63.5 cm); Matt WedelFlower tree, 2014, ceramic, 38 ¾ x 60 ½ x 64 in. (98.4 x 153.7 x 162.6 cm); Matt Wedel, Flower tree, 2015, ceramic, 17 x 28 x 24 in. (43.2 x 71.1 x 61 cm)