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My Bottle Box[{(My spirits made)BrickMASS} ArchitecturalFRIEZE\MoMA/Momma|Bricktower]RIP,
Kahlil Robert Irving
American, born 1992
2019-2021
A compact, freestanding sculpture made of glazed and unglazed ceramic with enamel, silver and gold lusters, and found decals, in which the artist compresses bottle-like forms, a brick column, and domestic fragments into a single collapsed ‘box’ to conjure layered urban histories and discarded lives.
Up close it reads like a miniature ruin: glossy, molten glazes and raw clay collide with newspaper images, floral china fragments, a green bottle-top form and a brick-patterned shaft, creating a cluttered, tactile surface of shine, grit and color that keeps revealing new details the longer you look.
By fusing studio ceramics with collage and found ephemera, the work pushes clay beyond craft into sculptural archaeology, using material accumulation and glaze effects to make visible neglected stories of architecture, debris, and memory in contemporary life.
Medium
Glazed and Unglazed Ceramic, Blue; Black; Green; Red enamel, Black, Blue, Gold; Green; Orange; Opal; Silver luster, found and personally constructed decals
Dimensions
19 × 13 × 13" (48.3 × 33 × 33 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, and James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach
Accession
583.2022
Palette
Exhibitions
