Layered abstract artwork featuring vertical black lines and marks overlaid on weathered cream and tan tones, creating a sense of depth and spatial complexity through translucent gestural marks.

between the lines

Darcy Badiali

11/8/2013 – 1/4/2014

Press Release (PDF)

It is a difficult concept for the mind to accept that the answers to the deepest mysteries can only be found between the lines.

To see more clearly, we must learn to soften and broaden our gaze. In the same way that the universe needed nothingness to come into being, lines cannot exist without spaces.  Though it may seem that these inspired monumental ceramic works can be viewed directly, they cannot. For each of us sees through an invisible veil that is the total of our human experience.

Darcy Badiali was born in Fresno, California. He received his BFA (1998) from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.  During his tenure at Kansas City Art Institute he served as a studio assistant to Ken Ferguson. Badiali received his MFA (2001) from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona where he worked with Kurt Weiser.  Badiali currently maintains a ceramic studio on the central coast of California.

Exhibition Images ()

  • A tall cylindrical ceramic vessel with a cream and muted green surface, covered with horizontal linear markings and darker gestural marks concentrated at the base. The sculpture is displayed on a white pedestal alongside a smaller rounded ceramic disc mounted on the wall, both works suggesting a dialogue between form and negative space.
  • Monumental circular ceramic vessel mounted on a white wall, its concave interior surface revealing layered brushstrokes in charcoal black and gray tones that create a spiraling, meditative composition. The exterior rim transitions from lighter taupe to darker charcoal, with visible gestural marks suggesting both contemplative abstraction and organic form.
  • A large circular ceramic vessel mounted on a white gallery wall, its surface marked with gestural black lines and brushstrokes against a weathered, muted gray-brown glaze that suggests depth and movement within the form.
Layered abstract artwork featuring vertical black lines and marks overlaid on weathered cream and tan tones, creating a sense of depth and spatial complexity through translucent gestural marks.

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