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Woody De Othello<br><em>the healers gathered around</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic and bronze<br>42 x 44 3/4 x 53 1/2 inches / 106.7 x 113.7 x 135.9 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>the diviner pointed at me</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>45 x 17 x 26 inches / 114.3 x 43.2 x 66 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>Green Lady</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>54 x 18 x 20 inches / 137.2 x 45.7 x 50.8 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>reminded of their power</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>41 x 24 x 17 inches / 104.1 x 61 x 43.2 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>as they say the bones of the earth are the stones</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic and wood<br>72 x 34 x 34 inches / 182.9 x 86.4 x 86.4 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>mineral wisdom</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>55 1/2 x 15 x 13 inches / 141 x 38.1 x 33 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>it is in our bones not the brain</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>46 1/2 x 20 x 14 inches / 118.1 x 50.8 x 35.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>water among trees</em>, 2023<br>Oil on canvas<br>50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>trees protect and shield</em>, 2023<br>Oil on canvas<br>50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>nourishing home</em>, 2023<br>Oil on canvas<br>20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>Sun Showered</em>, 2023<br>Oil on canvas<br>20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>Holding Form</em>, 2023<br>Oil on canvas<br>20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>lost dreams</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>12 x 22 x 3 inches / 30.5 x 55.9 x 7.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>one of the things we have in common is loss</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>18 1/2 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches / 47 x 27.9 x 6.3 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>Ever So Present</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>19 x 11 x 3 inches / 48.3 x 27.9 x 7.6 cm

Woody De Othello<br><em>Reminder to Being</em>, 2023<br>Glazed ceramic<br>22 x 12 x 3 inches / 55.9 x 30.5 x 7.6 cm

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September 6-9, 2023

Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural participation in Frieze Seoul and Woody De Othello’s first solo exhibition in Asia. Running from September 6 to 9, the exhibition is comprised of new ceramic, bronze, and wood sculptures as well as new oil paintings by the Miami-born artist of Haitian descent.

Titled “Mineral Memory,” Othello’s show explores home as a space where time and personal history are anchored. The first edition of a bronze sculpture titled the healers gathered around (2023) has two pairs of legs, seated ritualistically, emblematic of a small supportive community, which upholds others as well as themselves. On top of the bronze rests an exquisitely glazed ceramic head besieged by three hands, which suggest the figure is deep in thought, in the process of being molded in clay, or both. Among other things, the healers gathered around is about collective idea formation.

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Woody De Othello
the healers gathered around, 2023
Glazed ceramic and bronze
42 x 44 3/4 x 53 1/2 inches / 106.7 x 113.7 x 135.9 cm

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Woody De Othello
the diviner pointed at me, 2023
Glazed ceramic
45 x 17 x 26 inches / 114.3 x 43.2 x 66 cm

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Woody De Othello
Green Lady, 2023
Glazed ceramic
54 x 18 x 20 inches / 137.2 x 45.7 x 50.8 cm

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Woody De Othello
reminded of their power, 2023
Glazed ceramic
41 x 24 x 17 inches / 104.1 x 61 x 43.2 cm

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Woody De Othello
the diviner pointed at me, 2023
Glazed ceramic
45 x 17 x 26 inches / 114.3 x 43.2 x 66 cm

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Woody De Othello
Green Lady, 2023
Glazed ceramic
54 x 18 x 20 inches / 137.2 x 45.7 x 50.8 cm

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Woody De Othello
reminded of their power, 2023
Glazed ceramic
41 x 24 x 17 inches / 104.1 x 61 x 43.2 cm

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Installed around the edges of the room are six freestanding ceramic sculptures, dynamic forms caught in moments of mutation. As they say the bones of the earth are the stones (2023) comprises a hand-carved, long-limbed wooden base and a ceramic vessel, which is all arms and legs. In the diviner pointed at me (2023), Othello continues his investigation of the body and the magic of the natural world. In it, a rabbit wearing a mask perches on top of a leafy ceramic base next to a top hat. Was the rabbit wearing the hat or was the rabbit pulled out of the hat? Either way, the character and the artist himself demonstrate a flair of humor and mischief.

Woody De Othello
as they say the bones of the earth are the stones, 2023
Glazed ceramic and wood
72 x 34 x 34 inches / 182.9 x 86.4 x 86.4 cm

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Woody De Othello
mineral wisdom, 2023
Glazed ceramic
55 1/2 x 15 x 13 inches / 141 x 38.1 x 33 cm

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Woody De Othello
it is in our bones not the brain, 2023
Glazed ceramic
46 1/2 x 20 x 14 inches / 118.1 x 50.8 x 35.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
as they say the bones of the earth are the stones, 2023
Glazed ceramic and wood
72 x 34 x 34 inches / 182.9 x 86.4 x 86.4 cm

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Woody De Othello
mineral wisdom, 2023
Glazed ceramic
55 1/2 x 15 x 13 inches / 141 x 38.1 x 33 cm

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Woody De Othello
it is in our bones not the brain, 2023
Glazed ceramic
46 1/2 x 20 x 14 inches / 118.1 x 50.8 x 35.6 cm

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Five new paintings line the walls of the booth, parodying windows on the world and fusing domesticity and nature. The oil-on-canvas works depict dense arrangements of flowers and trees that the artist recalls from childhood and sees while running through forests near his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Water among trees (2023) is an imagined landscape awash in a spectrum of green, located somewhere between Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County and Mt. Pelée in the Caribbean. The artist bisects the composition horizontally, rendering the bottom half underwater – an homage to the source of all life. Trees protect and shield (2023) and Holding Form (2023) show this fantastic forest, one at sunrise, the other at moonrise – reflections of the artist’s fascination with the passage of time.

Woody De Othello
water among trees, 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
trees protect and shield, 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 inches / 127 x 101.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
nourishing home, 2023
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
Sun Showered, 2023
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
Holding Form, 2023
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
nourishing home, 2023
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
Sun Showered, 2023
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
Holding Form, 2023
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

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A series of four undulating ceramic wall-works reinterpret the form of traditional face-clocks. Combining nostalgia with surrealism, the works’ primary colors, disruption of numerical iconography, and non-function ask the viewer to consider how our understanding of time has changed and how memories are structured and shaped.

Woody De Othello
lost dreams, 2023
Glazed ceramic
12 x 22 x 3 inches / 30.5 x 55.9 x 7.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
one of the things we have in common is loss, 2023
Glazed ceramic
18 1/2 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches / 47 x 27.9 x 6.3 cm

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Woody De Othello
Ever So Present, 2023
Glazed ceramic
19 x 11 x 3 inches / 48.3 x 27.9 x 7.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
Reminder to Being, 2023
Glazed ceramic
22 x 12 x 3 inches / 55.9 x 30.5 x 7.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
one of the things we have in common is loss, 2023
Glazed ceramic
18 1/2 x 11 x 2 1/2 inches / 47 x 27.9 x 6.3 cm

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Woody De Othello
Ever So Present, 2023
Glazed ceramic
19 x 11 x 3 inches / 48.3 x 27.9 x 7.6 cm

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Woody De Othello
Reminder to Being, 2023
Glazed ceramic
22 x 12 x 3 inches / 55.9 x 30.5 x 7.6 cm

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ARTIST BIO

Woody De Othello (b. 1991, Miami) holds an MFA from the California College of Arts, San Francisco and BFA from Florida Atlantic University. His work is in the permanent collections of Whitney Museum of American Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; ICA, Miami; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San José Museum of Art, CA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and MAXXI National Museum of 21^st Century Art, Rome, Italy, and many more. Othello has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hayward Gallery, London; The Met, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial; 33rd Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia; and Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, among others. Large-scale public art commissions include San Francisco International Airport; de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and Cityline, Sunnyvale. He is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Karma, New York; and Stephen Friedman, London. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA.