Risa Roseman

Risa began her love of ceramics at the Berkeley Art Studio at UC Berkeley. There she fell in love with clay and the process of creating functional wares on the wheel. Fascination with the details of form, how the curve and lines of pottery affects the human response lead her to pursue architecture. Moving across the country to Virginia, Risa studied at Virginia Tech receiving a Master of Architecture. While there, she spent a majority of her time in the ceramics lab exploring form and vessel, and the connection design has to the human experience.

Hand and wrist disabilities brought an end to this phase of relationship to clay. Risa turned to hand building and found an affinity for the figure. At first drawn to abstract expression, she moved towards classical anatomical studies as a foundation to explore the figure in clay, whether abstract or literal. Risa’s figurative sculptures explores the human form as a map to the internal world; emotional, physical or spiritual and how it is expressed outwardly as clues to human experience. Her work explores emotions held within that present in the outward holding of the body. Risa’s abstract figurative sculpture endeavors to use simplicity of form to convey experience.

Risa has studied figure sculpture with Claudia Jeffers and currently with Deborah Bridges. Her home and studio are in Grass Valley, California