Addison Woolsey (b. 1993) born in Seattle, WA is a self-taught ceramic artist occasionally based in Southern California. His work explores the specific ways that ceramics— in its various iterations as craft, sculpture, vessel, folk art —can help us understand what it means to be human, to be alive, and to live with others. A frequent guest of community studios across the Americas, his sculptures and vessels are built at varying scales dependent on the constraints of local studio access. Acknowledging and responding to these constraints turns the studio into an ethnographic site, where clay, glaze, form, and firing atmosphere come to serve as indexes of the cultural and geological context of production.
Residencies include Casa Ceniza in Guadalajara (2022) and Township 10 in North Carolina (2023). He holds an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA.
Addison Woolsey, Table 01, Stoneware, Various Glazes, Coil Built, 16 x 16 x 16 in. $4,000
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 14, 2023. Stoneware, various glazes, wax resist decoration, sgraffito, 19 x 15 x 9 in. $2,600
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 12, 2023. Stoneware, various glazes, wax resist decoration. 29.75" H x 13" D $4,200
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 11, 2023. Stoneware, glaze, wax resist decoration, 16 x 12 x 12 in. $4,000
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 10, 2023. Coil-built stoneware, glaze, and wax resist decoration, 30 x 13 x 13 in. $4,000
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 08, 2023. Stoneware, various glazes, 15 x 17 x 17 in. $3,600
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 07, 2022. Stoneware, various glazes, multiple firings, 12.5 x 10 x 10 in. $2,000
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 06, 2023. Stoneware, various glazes, 11 x 9 x 9 in. Initialed at base. $1,600
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 04, 2022. Stoneware, various glazes, wax resist decoration, 13 x 14 x 14 in. $2,500
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 02, 2023. Stoneware, various glazes, copper oxide, 21.5 x 16 x 16 in. Initialed at base. $4,200
Addison Woolsey, Vessel 01, 2023. Stoneware, glaze, iron oxide, 18 x 17 x 17 in. Initialed at base. $3,400 SOLD
