Arina Erdélyi: Arrangements

Volume Gallery is pleased to present Arrangements, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Arina Erdélyi, opening September 17th, from 5-8PM in gallery two. In a series of ceramic lighting and wall works, Erdélyi explores tensions of scale and perspective through the pairing of miniature and full-scale forms. Table lamps frame miniature domestic scenes illuminated beneath silk shades, while full-scale plates hang above, extending these scenes into the surrounding space. The surface of each ceramic piece is defined by repeated impressions of a single trimming of ancestral lace pressed into the clay before being fired in a dark, matte black glaze. This motif travels across lamps and plates alike, turning a domestic ornament into a recurring mark, as the delicate pattern settles over these structures like draped cloth or an accumulation of dust in a preserved or abandoned room.