Please join us for the opening of Exploring the Ground of Being: Ceramics and Depth Psychology and informal conversation with Michael Headrick, 2025 Myers Awardee for Gottesman Libraries' Commissioned Art.  

Exploring the Ground of Being depicts Michael Headrick’s personal and community process at Teachers College, Columbia University. The exhibition is as much an artistic exploration of ceramic materials, as it is a symbolic exploration of  the unconscious. Michael Headrick presents work that stems from dreams, synchronicities, fantasies and intuitions; and the operations taken through the various iterations in ceramic material. The work engages personal material that links the artist to the collective. 

Michael Headrick is an educated architect and technologist, who now focuses on research in psychology and ceramics. His practice focuses on bringing the unconscious or immaterial into physical form. Working with materials like clay, plaster and cement to create three-dimensional sculptural and functional objects led to a primary focus on work in ceramics: a practice that engages many permutations, iterations and processes before arriving at its final form. Deeply connected to this physical process, Michael seeks to express the movement of the inner life in a physical way. Michael, who also works at Teachers College, is pursuing a Masters of Arts in Psychology, and previously earned a B.A. in Architectural Studies at The University of Hong Kong. Michael also serves on the board of directors for CO-RESIDENCY, a fully digital Art Residency program.

Refreshments will be provided.

Where: 305 Russell / Offit Gallery

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Upcoming: 

Meet the Artist, Talk, and Tour:  Wednesday, 12/11, 3-4pm (305 Russell / Offit Gallery)

Poster Image: Dream Landscape, by Michael Headrick, Courtesy of the Artist.