Work
white whale black cat | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 15 x 24 x 24 inches
white whale black cat | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 15 x 24 x 24 inches
white whale black cat | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 15 x 24 x 24 inches
skin hair blood and bones | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, wood, knife | 22.5 x 11 x 5.25 inches
skin hair blood and bones | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, wood, knife | 22.5 x 11 x 5.25 inches
Again & again & again & again & | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, concrete | 15 x 15 x 8 inches
Again & again & again & again & | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, concrete | 15 x 15 x 8 inches
golden boy | 2016 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, styrofoam, gold leaf | 7 x 5 x 9 x 7.5 inches
Am I flammable? | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexi | 10 x 41.5 x 6 inches
Am I flammable? | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexi | 10 x 41.5 x 6 inches
Am I flammable? | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexi | 10 x 41.5 x 6 inches
This is the execution | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 32 x 40 x 40 inches
This is the execution | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 32 x 40 x 40 inches
This is the execution | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 32 x 40 x 40 inches
This is the execution | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze, plexiglas, wood | 32 x 40 x 40 inches
time to kill | 2023 | Porcelain, clay, glaze | 8.5 x 17 x 3 inches
Flower | balloons, helium, string |Dimensions variable
BIO
Thomas Müller’s conceptual practice blurs the boundaries between sculptural and conceptual. His words and phrases, mired in clay, are fraught with ambiguity. Words rendered in a collapsed ceramic object, such as “Again & again & again & again &” are impossible to decipher either conceptually or materially; instead, they become a loop without a conclusion, resisting interpretation. Multiplicity of concept and material are equal partners in unmooring his time-based work, as ceramic yields to gravity and comprehension yields to inquiries.
Thomas Müller is Associate Professor and Chair of Art, 3D, at the University of Southern California (USC). He received his BFA from the University of Washington and MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa and spent his childhood growing up in Africa, the United States and Europe. Growing up in such disparate locales and cultures has inevitably influenced his work, in particular as it relates to language, time, memory and space. Residencies include The European Ceramic Work Centres’ Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands and Stichtung Kaus Australis Rotterdam, The Netherlands.