Tabula Rasa explores the concept of the blank slate, examining the enormous potential contained within each chunk of the most elemental of art mediums-raw clay. This exhibition brings together the work of five artists pushing the boundaries of possibility in the field of ceramics: Brie Ruais, JJ PEET, Ralph Scala, Sam Harvey, and Robert King, each demonstrating the unique journey their work takes from malleable formlessness to fully realized creation.

At the outset, there is only potential: a universal blank slate, a lump of unshapen clay. Each artist in Tabula Rasa approaches this fundamental state with intent, technique, skill and perspective, guiding the clay through distinct processes that are as individual as their stories, their fingerprints. This exhibition showcases the nearly infinite possibilities when raw material, clay, is shaped by the human hand and mind toward a defined, terminal point in the artists’ respective creative processes.

While each of these ceramic artists start from a unified position, staring at an amorphous ball of clay, their highly individualized processes lead them down paths that are redefining clay art. Tabula Rasa is a demonstration of the nearly endless possibilities that arise when this innate potential of the material is met with the human need for expression, beauty, understanding and connection. Each piece in this exhibition is the result of a conversation between artist and material, a story that begins with a blank slate and ends with the breadth and depth of the work on display.