MAYA BEVERLY

STATEMENT

Through her practice, she seeks a comprehensive understanding of how the function of an object extends beyond its materiality and often communicates something unseen. Recurring themes of interest in her work include the power of objects, the act of adorning, societal expectations of beauty, distortion, and manipulation. Her process involves combining objects from her personal archives, and other materials imbued with cultural history and tradition. By centering her work around ceramics and sculpture, she physically interacts with these materials and continues to imagine what extending the body into space can mean.