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Isys Hennigar

Isys Hennigar

My pieces usually begin with a sketch and a general idea of surface information. Sometimes the final form looks just like the original sketch, but more often, improvisation blurs the resemblance. My work considers the complex ways in which humans engage with, use, and interpret the natural world. I draw from early natural history, regional folklore, animal symbology, and other forms of narrative that lend themselves to locating patterns in stories we tell involving plants and animals. I am particularly interested in the strange interactions or chance relationships often present in these narratives and in creating objects that tell these stories in tangled constellations. The forms on which I represent these narrative webs reference landscapes, tools, bodies, and vessels. My work is continuously informed by the agrarian and post-agrarian landscapes of southern Appalachia, where I live. I am excited by the tools and vessels that we use to mediate our relationships with other species and the dense and subtle ways in which human activity is inscribed on the landscape. Through form and surface, I try to interweave myth and mundanity, and invoke a sense of delicately balanced systems.

I hope that my work’s contribution to the world of made things is an invitation to dwell momentarily in the complexity of interactions between living things. Part of the attraction that making art holds for me is its potential for ambiguity and layered meaning. I believe that making unexpected, enigmatic, or speculative objects functions in some small way to keep the world large and mysterious, in all of its wonder and absurdity.

  • $750
    Isys Hennigar

    Hummingbird Run

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 5 x 4 x 7" and is made of glazed porcelain, chin...

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  • $1,850
    Isys Hennigar

    Sparkle and Bite

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 7 x 5 x 6" and is made of glazed porcelain, chin...

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  • $60
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 3 x 2.5" and is made of porcelain. Please refere...

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  • $75
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 2.75 x 2.75" and is made of porcelain. Please re...

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  • $75
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 3 x 3" and is made of porcelain. PLEASE NOTE: th...

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  • $75
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 3.5 x 2.75" and is made of porcelain. Please ref...

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  • $80
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 3.75 x 3" and is made of porcelain. PLEASE NOTE:...

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  • $85
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 4 x 3" and is made of porcelain. PLEASE NOTE: th...

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  • $100
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 4 x 3" and is made of porcelain. PLEASE NOTE: th...

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  • $120
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 4.5 x 3" and is made of porcelain. PLEASE NOTE: ...

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  • $85
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 4 x 3.25" and is made of porcelain. Please refer...

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  • $80
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 4.5 x 3" and is made of porcelain. Please refere...

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  • $75
    Isys Hennigar

    Cup

    Hennigar's ceramics explore the relationship between humans and natural world. This piece measures 4.5 x 3" and is made of porcelain. Please refere...

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    $1,300
    Isys Hennigar

    Le Chat

    This complex and multi-layered form is glazed porcelain, china paint, ceramic decals. It measures 10.5" x 9.5" x 4". Please reference 22IH01 if c...

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