S c ulptor Marilyn Andrews began making and selling stoneware in 1976, but something changed when she started to work seriously with clay. “I like clay because working with a material that undergoes such radical changes, and working in three dimensions, helps me integrate the sensuous and the intellectual,” she says.
He r most recent exhibition, called Dreaming of What’s Here , runs through Jan. 31 at Brattleboro’s Gallery in the Woods. The show features sculptures in clay — including the one titled “Cycle Dynamic,” pictured above — that explore intimacy and human relationships with what she has called “a surreal slant.”
An image made in clay, says Andrews, “brings me a different level of understanding,” since it “captures both the solidity and the insubstantiality of perception, which is my encounter with the world around me. What I have to share with others is the material trace of this play.”•
Through Jan 31, free, Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., Brattleboro, (802) 257-4777 .
—Hunter Styles