John Roloff

The most amazing thing happened at our studio a couple of weeks ago.  John Roloff turned up from California and started a clay sculpture in my husband, Steve Briggs's, clay studio. (My old studio too.)  John is making a ship of clay in geological time that will be installed at the Denver Art Museum in their current exhibit:  Overthrown:  Clay Without Limits.  The show opens June 10, 2011 in the Hamilton Building.  John's work is a large-scale installation that will take up a whole room.  Steve and John went out to local clay pits and dug a great amount of clay in the various geological formations that run along the front range of Denver.

Here is what the form looked like that he filled with clay:

John and Steve worked for three very long days until it was finished.  It has been drying in our studio for  a week or more and the two days ago a crew of movers from the museum came to pick it up in a very large white truck. 

John will take the mold off at the installation in the Museum and add some other things to make it complete.  I can not wait until the opening when I can see what he has done.  As I said, it is all very exciting.  His show is part of a larger show that will take over the whole DAM called MARVELOUS MUD:  Clay Around the World.