Nurielle Stern

Nurielle Stern creates sculptural ceramic objects and immersive installations that often combine ceramics and video projection. Her pieces are saturated with texture and vibrant glazes, giving them a hyper-real quality. In her work, Nurielle makes tangible a fictional world of her imagining creating things at once strange and familiar. “Ceramic, inert and opaque, has a transubstantiated ability to mirror the thrumming life-like quality of items. Worked by human hands, it appears to retain some of their liveliness. “Through my work, I navigate the malleability of language, the role of a craftsman and storyteller, and the dialectics of inside and outside — the tamed and the wilderness.” Nurielle Stern is an emerging artist and a graduate of Alfred University’s renowned MFA program in Ceramic Art (New York, USA). Stern’s recent solo exhibitions include Fable, a large-scale commission for the Gardiner Museum’s new Joan Courtois Gallery (on view until March 2021), and a responsive exhibition to Ai Weiwei: Unbroken, also at the Gardiner Museum (2019). Stern's collaborative collection with artist Nicholas Crombach, Whale Fall, was shown at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in 2019. Stern is the 2019 recipient of the national Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramic Art and the 2020 NCECA Emerging Artist Award. In winter 2020, she participated in an invitation-only residency at California State University, Long Beach Center for Contemporary Ceramics.