PAZ G

The ceramic sculptures of self-taught Chilean artist Paz G house the tales of their family’s lives and lineages, threading the connective tissue of memory across experiences of precarity and displacement. They make sculptures about sound, resistance music, and interpret song through form in their sculptures. Their pieces are often cavernous forms shot through with holes and protrusions, figurative vignettes, bold and urgent psychic texts, and vibrant portraits painted on clay. Most recently, Paz’s work has evolved into large-scale oil paintings that meditate on systems of domination and power, love, and the spiritual consequences of lovelessness. Paz was recently featured in Ritual Clay at the Mannetti Shrem Museum in Davis, CA (2024), Bay Area Now 9 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (2023), Personal Alchemy, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts (2020), Ceramic Interventions, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA (2022), and Slip Tease, Kasmin Gallery, NY, NY (2023). They were a finalist for the 2024 SF MoMA SECA Award. @kilns