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Artist: Avery Gregory
Avery Gregory lives and works in the western united states.
Her work contrasts the relative permanency of raw material with the transience of structure and presentation, most often taking the form of meticulously curated assemblages of found stones. Exploring both anonymity and spectatorship, her pieces showcase and celebrate the impartiality of the natural world by presenting its most basic material, stone, in its most basic form.
Drawing dual inspiration from the quiet expansive wildness of the west and the organization and boundaries necessitated by a decade lived in New York City, gregory’s practice illustrates a need for both methodical structure and infinite, undomesticated material variance. Her lifelong ardor for stone collecting and environmental connection manifests in pieces that coax the entropy of the natural world into carefully constructed artworks.
what started as a childhood hobby has become not only her most sacred art practice but a lasting meditative exercise. Mental clarity, spiritual quietness, and blanket interconnectedness are born of laborious material collection and intensive curation, and are central to her practice.
gregory collects small batches of low-impact wild materials throughout the United States and is constantly exploring new applications for stone, clay, and earth. Her work has been featured in Nylon magazine, artnet, surface magazine, interior design magazine, cottages & gardens, business of home, glaze magazine, and makers’ markets throughout the country.
says gregory of her practice: “i pick up the same stones in different iterations over and over and over again. The natural world is inherently entropic and that is deeply comforting to me: that the planet unconsciously creates these little polished bits of itself with no care as to how they look or where they end up or any knowledge that they exist. Enviable detachment.” (from editor)
