Woody De Othello
tomorrow always never is, 2023
Ceramic, glaze, walnut, paint, and enamel
53 × 18 × 17 inches (134.6 × 45.7 × 43.2 cm) (overall)

In tomorrow always never is, Woody De Othello arranges familiar relics of daily life—a clock, a rotary telephone, and stacked books—into a glazed ceramic still life that feels at once intimate and unsettled. Anchored by the tilted clock face and the sensuous, weighty forms, the composition bends perspective so that the objects seem both monumental and precariously animate, their surfaces catching and holding light like recollection itself. Through these formal choices—the exaggerated scale, tactile glazes, and subtle imbalance—Othello’s iconography transforms the everyday into a measure of time’s passage and the simultaneous certainty and uncertainty of what lies ahead.

ABOUT THE Artist

Woody De Othello shapes clay into figures that register like emotional barometers, their swollen forms and exaggerated features giving physical weight to states of feeling we often leave unnamed. In his contemporary resonance, De Othello’s ceramics feel both familiar and disquieting—every rolled eye, pursed lip, or oversized hand declaring a presence that moves between humor and honest vulnerability. These works anchor emotional interiority in tactile surfaces, reminding us that sculpture can be as expressive and immediate as a gesture or a glance.