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FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026
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MAY 15 - JUNE 13, 2026

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In her latest body of work, Late Bloomers, Godeleine de Rosamel begins with an act of undoing. Finished ceramic works—some created years earlier—are intentionally broken apart, their fragments salvaged and reimagined into new sculptural forms. What emerges is not loss, but release: works that feel less like remnants than arrivals, suspended in a continual state of becoming.

Rooted in a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, ceramics, and found materials, de Rosamel explores the tension between formal precision and tactile immediacy. In Late Bloomers, that tension is heightened through a process that is at once intuitive and technically rigorous. Using a wooden mallet, the artist isolates fragments that retain structural integrity, then recomposes them with newly modeled forms—petals, connective elements, and sculptural structures—alongside previously fired but unresolved ceramic components. Each composition is carefully balanced with close attention to proportion, gravity, rhythm, and movement.

The resulting works range from towering, vertically stacked blossoms that suggest a scale beyond the human body, to geometric constructions and animal forms situated within abstracted landscapes. Across the series, glaze functions not merely as surface treatment but as a binding force, fusing disparate elements through multiple firings. Melted at high temperatures, the glaze becomes fluid and unstable, allowing gravity and heat to subtly alter each sculpture before it solidifies. These shifts remain visible in the finished works: slight displacements, unexpected alignments, and traces of movement that preserve a sense of contingency and transformation.

Working between studios in Los Angeles and Wellfleet, de Rosamel describes a significant evolution in her creative process. In Los Angeles, distanced from the familiar rhythms and landscapes of Cape Cod, she turns inward, engaging more deeply with memory, reflection, and the accumulated material history of her studio practice. It is within this atmosphere of relative isolation that Late Bloomers emerged—a body of work shaped less by direct observation than by revision, reconsideration, and the reactivation of past decisions.

In Late Bloomers, destruction becomes generative. By dismantling completed works, de Rosamel rejects the notion of finality, allowing meaning to remain fluid and open-ended. Her recomposed sculptures retain traces of their earlier forms while asserting entirely new identities, and her paintings echo these fragments through layered compositions of color, transparency, and gesture. Across media, de Rosamel balances control and chance, structure and release, holding these dualities in suspension.

To be a “late bloomer,” in de Rosamel’s vision, is not to arrive belatedly, but to recognize that transformation remains perpetually possible. The work, like the artist, is never truly finished—only continuously unfolding.

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