Denise Carletta / Fine Art / Sculpture / Figure in Orange

• Materials – Clay, acrylic paint, acrylic resin
• Size – 12L x 3-1/2W

Sculptures are a method of pinch pottery… no tools, Denise uses her fingers and pinches the clay while she adds volume. At a certain point when the volume feels right she starts using her tools to move the clay. Some pieces with more complicated head and other body positions have internal armature that she makes from wire. This clay does not get fired in a kiln. The finishing includes painting, brushing acrylic resin and in some pieces, adding cold wax for a matte effect. 

Denise Carletta has been a fine artist for decades and she would likely say that it's always been a part of her. Her experience "seeing" was so informed by her early studies that she has continuously built on the same theme across various mediums, mostly painting and sculpture. She is inspired by the masters of Greek sculpture–obsessed with the remnants, a broken arm, a missing head… and still there is a gesture telling us a story. Marino Marini is her other idol. His figures on horses make her smile with their simple gesture of the figure's head sky high in the air expressing an emotion we all know. She says, “My creative process is so personal… how can it not be an expression of one’s life journey? A balancing on the rim with my art keeping my balance.”
 

Learn more about Denise Carletta in our Conversations with an Artist series.