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Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Today on TCI 🌾 Sculptor Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) speaks with writer Claudia Ross (@qlaudiahh) about making art to survive, growing up with artists, and learning from nature. Read the interview via the link in our bio. 🪻

ID: A roundup of quotes from a conversation with sculptor Maddy Inez that read…

Slide 1: “I think if the art world fell apart, if it disappeared, we’d still be making art every day. That’s a really freeing notion that helps me with my practice”

Slide 2: “[My mother and grandmother] remind me that this is what we do to exist. It’s how we digest the world and think critically about the world, and it’s how we survive.”

Slide 3: “My grandma turns 100 this year and I was like, ‘How do you keep doing this? You’ve lived for 100 years and you haven’t seen it grow or change,’ and her answer was, ‘You just have to keep making art. That’s how you keep moving. That’s how you keep going and how you don’t lose hope.’”

Slide 4: “I’m lucky because I witnessed very strong women navigating a world that is very male driven and also very white. They taught me that you can work with people that you really love.”

Slide 5: “I make art about plants. I like spending time in community gardens or with plants or cooking. I love cooking. My creative practice is tied to so many other parts of my life that other kinds of creativity can feel encouraging.”

Slide 6: “I started reaching out to land stewards and education and community garden people who were working with the same ideas of gardening as an act of revolution or as an act of resistance.”

Slide 7: “It has been really nice getting to know people who have similar ideas about how we’re supposed to show up for each other or what our future might look like.”

Photo of Maddy by @harglees

Felix Art Fair continues today! Thank you @artsy for including @maddy_inez in your “5 Artists We Discovered at Felix”

“Among the greenery on the deck of L.A. gallery Megan Mulrooney’s elegant cabana presentation, a gentle trickle can be heard. Its source is The Sower (2023), a fountain by local artist Maddy Inez. Lurching and biomorphic, the ceramic form seems to rise from the ground itself, its shimmering surface evoking bubbling earth or calcified organic matter. What could sound foreboding instead feels hypnotic: water flows calmly through the sculpture, giving the shaded installation a meditative calm.

Inez is the daughter of Alison Saar and granddaughter of Betye Saar, two major artists who are towering figures in L.A.’s history, and her practice carries that legacy. Working primarily in ceramics, she creates forms that echo plant and animal life, often threading in personal references. Her ongoing series “Memory Jugs,” for instance, pays direct homage to her grandmother Betye’s references to African American folk art tradition. They function as intimate vessels that honor her family histories.“

Come join the meditative sounds of Maddy’s fountain sculpture in the midst of the cacophony of sound from the Hollywood Roosevelt’s legendary pool.

#felixartfair #meganmulrooneygallery #maddyinez #maddyinezleeser

One aspect that made Salt of the Earth such a special exhibition was the ways in which the works of artists with disparate art making practices worked so beautifully in dialogue.

This is perfectly highlighted with the display of a ceramic piece by Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) in conversation with the paintings of Nancy Nguyen (@oaht.n) . Inez’s “Hemmed Hide” is an intimate, precious sculpture rich in earthy hues, whimsical form, and textures ranging from smooth and bumpy to wispy and porous. Stemming from her interdisciplinary practice that include sculpture and ceramics, this work is indicative of a fascination with nature, mythology, memory and ancestral magic and alchemy.

This work pairs exceptionally with the otherworldly paintings of Nancy Nguyen, whose work similarly ponders ideas of nature, mythology, spirituality, and existenceas well as our personal/collective relationships with such. Each of her five paintings currently on view in Salt of the Earth contain cosmic depth and showcase an dazzling array of deep thoughtful energy, otherworldly color, and fascinating shapes and forms that seem to suggest playful and mythical figures.

The works of Maddy Inez and Nancy Nguyen are on view until February 28th.

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🖼️ Artworks:

1) Maddy Inez, Hemmed Hide, 2023
Glazed Ceramic

2) Nancy Nguyen, Untitled 2, 2023
Oil on Canvas

One aspect that made Salt of the Earth such a special exhibition was the ways in which the works of artists with disparate art making practices worked so beautifully in dialogue.

This is perfectly highlighted with the display of a ceramic piece by Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) in conversation with the paintings of Nancy Nguyen (@oaht.n) . Inez’s “Hemmed Hide” is an intimate, precious sculpture rich in earthy hues, whimsical form, and textures ranging from smooth and bumpy to wispy and porous. Stemming from her interdisciplinary practice that include sculpture and ceramics, this work is indicative of a fascination with nature, mythology, memory and ancestral magic and alchemy.

This work pairs exceptionally with the otherworldly paintings of Nancy Nguyen, whose work similarly ponders ideas of nature, mythology, spirituality, and existenceas well as our personal/collective relationships with such. Each of her five paintings currently on view in Salt of the Earth contain cosmic depth and showcase an dazzling array of deep thoughtful energy, otherworldly color, and fascinating shapes and forms that seem to suggest playful and mythical figures.

The works of Maddy Inez and Nancy Nguyen are on view until February 28th.

—

🖼️ Artworks:

1) Maddy Inez, Hemmed Hide, 2023
Glazed Ceramic

2) Nancy Nguyen, Untitled 2, 2023
Oil on Canvas

One aspect that made Salt of the Earth such a special exhibition was the ways in which the works of artists with disparate art making practices worked so beautifully in dialogue.

This is perfectly highlighted with the display of a ceramic piece by Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez) in conversation with the paintings of Nancy Nguyen (@oaht.n) . Inez’s “Hemmed Hide” is an intimate, precious sculpture rich in earthy hues, whimsical form, and textures ranging from smooth and bumpy to wispy and porous. Stemming from her interdisciplinary practice that include sculpture and ceramics, this work is indicative of a fascination with nature, mythology, memory and ancestral magic and alchemy.

This work pairs exceptionally with the otherworldly paintings of Nancy Nguyen, whose work similarly ponders ideas of nature, mythology, spirituality, and existenceas well as our personal/collective relationships with such. Each of her five paintings currently on view in Salt of the Earth contain cosmic depth and showcase an dazzling array of deep thoughtful energy, otherworldly color, and fascinating shapes and forms that seem to suggest playful and mythical figures.

The works of Maddy Inez and Nancy Nguyen are on view until February 28th.

—

🖼️ Artworks:

1) Maddy Inez, Hemmed Hide, 2023
Glazed Ceramic

2) Nancy Nguyen, Untitled 2, 2023
Oil on Canvas

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye year of the snake. You’ve shown us some of the darkest cycles perpetuated by humanity. Cycles of hate and greed. I’m grateful for my community and being able to lean on their visions of the future. I’m excited to share what I’ve been making from these conversations with land stewards, teachers, and friends in 2026.

🪱Let us all be earthworms 🪱

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Goodbye Miami!
Thank you for having me @meganmulrooneygallery and thank you everyone who stopped by the Nada booth this weekend. Special thanks to @concoolandcollected and @emmyhicksj !Such an honor to be showing work in the same city as my mother and grandmother and alongside so many amazing artists.

Los Angeles based sculptor and ceramicist Maddy Inez will have new ceramics included in the gallery’s NADA Miami booth. @maddy_inez

Maddy Inez utilizes ceramics and sculpture to explore themes of healing and ancestral memory, treating clay as both a medium and a metaphor for collective trauma. Her works often evoke plants known for their healing properties or mythological significance, merging the spiritual with the ecological. This approach prompts reflection on humanity’s fragile yet powerful relationship with the natural world. Inez’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by her matrilineal heritage; her mother, Alison Saar, and grandmother, Betye Saar, are both renowned artists whose legacies of Black feminist and spiritual artmaking resonate through her work. This lineage informs Inez’s exploration of intergenerational knowledge and the transformative power of art as a means of healing and remembrance.

Maddy Inez lives and works in Los Angeles and earned a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Her solo exhibitions include “Of Pith and Balm” at Harkawik Gallery, New York, and “Venus Freak” at NOON Projects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include “Adornment Artifact” at Crenshaw Plaza and Band of Vices, Los Angeles; “Earth House Hold” at Murmurs, Los Angeles; “Obscurity and the Unknown” at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles; and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles; among others.

#maddyinez #maddyinezleeser #ceramics

Los Angeles based sculptor and ceramicist Maddy Inez will have new ceramics included in the gallery’s NADA Miami booth. @maddy_inez

Maddy Inez utilizes ceramics and sculpture to explore themes of healing and ancestral memory, treating clay as both a medium and a metaphor for collective trauma. Her works often evoke plants known for their healing properties or mythological significance, merging the spiritual with the ecological. This approach prompts reflection on humanity’s fragile yet powerful relationship with the natural world. Inez’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by her matrilineal heritage; her mother, Alison Saar, and grandmother, Betye Saar, are both renowned artists whose legacies of Black feminist and spiritual artmaking resonate through her work. This lineage informs Inez’s exploration of intergenerational knowledge and the transformative power of art as a means of healing and remembrance.

Maddy Inez lives and works in Los Angeles and earned a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Her solo exhibitions include “Of Pith and Balm” at Harkawik Gallery, New York, and “Venus Freak” at NOON Projects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include “Adornment Artifact” at Crenshaw Plaza and Band of Vices, Los Angeles; “Earth House Hold” at Murmurs, Los Angeles; “Obscurity and the Unknown” at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles; and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles; among others.

#maddyinez #maddyinezleeser #ceramics

Los Angeles based sculptor and ceramicist Maddy Inez will have new ceramics included in the gallery’s NADA Miami booth. @maddy_inez

Maddy Inez utilizes ceramics and sculpture to explore themes of healing and ancestral memory, treating clay as both a medium and a metaphor for collective trauma. Her works often evoke plants known for their healing properties or mythological significance, merging the spiritual with the ecological. This approach prompts reflection on humanity’s fragile yet powerful relationship with the natural world. Inez’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by her matrilineal heritage; her mother, Alison Saar, and grandmother, Betye Saar, are both renowned artists whose legacies of Black feminist and spiritual artmaking resonate through her work. This lineage informs Inez’s exploration of intergenerational knowledge and the transformative power of art as a means of healing and remembrance.

Maddy Inez lives and works in Los Angeles and earned a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Her solo exhibitions include “Of Pith and Balm” at Harkawik Gallery, New York, and “Venus Freak” at NOON Projects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include “Adornment Artifact” at Crenshaw Plaza and Band of Vices, Los Angeles; “Earth House Hold” at Murmurs, Los Angeles; “Obscurity and the Unknown” at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles; and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles; among others.

#maddyinez #maddyinezleeser #ceramics

Los Angeles based sculptor and ceramicist Maddy Inez will have new ceramics included in the gallery’s NADA Miami booth. @maddy_inez

Maddy Inez utilizes ceramics and sculpture to explore themes of healing and ancestral memory, treating clay as both a medium and a metaphor for collective trauma. Her works often evoke plants known for their healing properties or mythological significance, merging the spiritual with the ecological. This approach prompts reflection on humanity’s fragile yet powerful relationship with the natural world. Inez’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by her matrilineal heritage; her mother, Alison Saar, and grandmother, Betye Saar, are both renowned artists whose legacies of Black feminist and spiritual artmaking resonate through her work. This lineage informs Inez’s exploration of intergenerational knowledge and the transformative power of art as a means of healing and remembrance.

Maddy Inez lives and works in Los Angeles and earned a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Her solo exhibitions include “Of Pith and Balm” at Harkawik Gallery, New York, and “Venus Freak” at NOON Projects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include “Adornment Artifact” at Crenshaw Plaza and Band of Vices, Los Angeles; “Earth House Hold” at Murmurs, Los Angeles; “Obscurity and the Unknown” at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles; and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles; among others.

#maddyinez #maddyinezleeser #ceramics

Los Angeles based sculptor and ceramicist Maddy Inez will have new ceramics included in the gallery’s NADA Miami booth. @maddy_inez

Maddy Inez utilizes ceramics and sculpture to explore themes of healing and ancestral memory, treating clay as both a medium and a metaphor for collective trauma. Her works often evoke plants known for their healing properties or mythological significance, merging the spiritual with the ecological. This approach prompts reflection on humanity’s fragile yet powerful relationship with the natural world. Inez’s artistic practice is deeply influenced by her matrilineal heritage; her mother, Alison Saar, and grandmother, Betye Saar, are both renowned artists whose legacies of Black feminist and spiritual artmaking resonate through her work. This lineage informs Inez’s exploration of intergenerational knowledge and the transformative power of art as a means of healing and remembrance.

Maddy Inez lives and works in Los Angeles and earned a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR. Her solo exhibitions include “Of Pith and Balm” at Harkawik Gallery, New York, and “Venus Freak” at NOON Projects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include “Adornment Artifact” at Crenshaw Plaza and Band of Vices, Los Angeles; “Earth House Hold” at Murmurs, Los Angeles; “Obscurity and the Unknown” at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles; and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles; among others.

#maddyinez #maddyinezleeser #ceramics

A bit of me

A bit of me

A bit of me

A bit of me

Showing one of my favorite little mosaics in the group show “Eden” curated by the lovely @ms.lucid opening this Friday 7-11pm at @last_projects . A percentage of the sales will go to @translatinacoalition . Come buy art and help raise money!

Smudged Seedling
14” x 8” x 8”
Glazed Ceramic
2025

My little Phacelia bloom from my Fire Follower series. Had to light a candle while making these works. Interesting to be tested by the kiln gods while making work about finding hope amidst destruction. Working in ceramics is full of lessons in loss and love.

📸 @neely.___

Smudged Seedling
14” x 8” x 8”
Glazed Ceramic
2025

My little Phacelia bloom from my Fire Follower series. Had to light a candle while making these works. Interesting to be tested by the kiln gods while making work about finding hope amidst destruction. Working in ceramics is full of lessons in loss and love.

📸 @neely.___

Smudged Seedling
14” x 8” x 8”
Glazed Ceramic
2025

My little Phacelia bloom from my Fire Follower series. Had to light a candle while making these works. Interesting to be tested by the kiln gods while making work about finding hope amidst destruction. Working in ceramics is full of lessons in loss and love.

📸 @neely.___

This is the last week to see Mother/Land at @murmurs.la

This piece came from new research I’m doing on gardening as an act of resistance. I’ve been looking at the relationships between displaced communities due to colonization and plants. For this work I was meditating on the spirit of Okra. I thought a lot about my Great Aunt Jai’s gumbo recipe while making this work. She passed away two weeks ago so I thought I would share the page of her recipe from my mom’s cookbook. The last image is of Jai and my Grandma’s father Jeffery in his mother’s garden in Watts.
Make some Gumbo for Jai!

Gumbo Rising
14 ½” x 9 ½” x 1 ½”
Glazed Stoneware
2025

“Loving the earth so much that one longs to taste it, and sometimes does” -Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers Garden

This is the last week to see Mother/Land at @murmurs.la

This piece came from new research I’m doing on gardening as an act of resistance. I’ve been looking at the relationships between displaced communities due to colonization and plants. For this work I was meditating on the spirit of Okra. I thought a lot about my Great Aunt Jai’s gumbo recipe while making this work. She passed away two weeks ago so I thought I would share the page of her recipe from my mom’s cookbook. The last image is of Jai and my Grandma’s father Jeffery in his mother’s garden in Watts.
Make some Gumbo for Jai!

Gumbo Rising
14 ½” x 9 ½” x 1 ½”
Glazed Stoneware
2025

“Loving the earth so much that one longs to taste it, and sometimes does” -Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers Garden

This is the last week to see Mother/Land at @murmurs.la

This piece came from new research I’m doing on gardening as an act of resistance. I’ve been looking at the relationships between displaced communities due to colonization and plants. For this work I was meditating on the spirit of Okra. I thought a lot about my Great Aunt Jai’s gumbo recipe while making this work. She passed away two weeks ago so I thought I would share the page of her recipe from my mom’s cookbook. The last image is of Jai and my Grandma’s father Jeffery in his mother’s garden in Watts.
Make some Gumbo for Jai!

Gumbo Rising
14 ½” x 9 ½” x 1 ½”
Glazed Stoneware
2025

“Loving the earth so much that one longs to taste it, and sometimes does” -Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers Garden

This is the last week to see Mother/Land at @murmurs.la

This piece came from new research I’m doing on gardening as an act of resistance. I’ve been looking at the relationships between displaced communities due to colonization and plants. For this work I was meditating on the spirit of Okra. I thought a lot about my Great Aunt Jai’s gumbo recipe while making this work. She passed away two weeks ago so I thought I would share the page of her recipe from my mom’s cookbook. The last image is of Jai and my Grandma’s father Jeffery in his mother’s garden in Watts.
Make some Gumbo for Jai!

Gumbo Rising
14 ½” x 9 ½” x 1 ½”
Glazed Stoneware
2025

“Loving the earth so much that one longs to taste it, and sometimes does” -Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers Garden

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Thank you Chicago!
It was an honor to show at @expochicago with @meganmulrooneygallery alongside the incredible @boshyboi . It was so special to share a booth with a friend that I love and respect so much!
Huge thank you to @barbaranessim for selecting my work to be awarded placement in the @depaulartmuseum collection.

Megan Mulrooney is thrilled to announce that Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez )has been awarded the 2025 Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize for our presentation @expochicago

2025 marks the third year of the Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize presented by EXPO CHICAGO.The acquisition prize is dedicated to the purchase of artworks created by a woman-identifying artist that will be donated to the DePaul Art Museum. @depaulartmuseum

@barbaranessim @expochicago

#maddyinez #ceramics #expochicago #depaulartmuseum #chicago

Megan Mulrooney is thrilled to announce that Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez )has been awarded the 2025 Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize for our presentation @expochicago

2025 marks the third year of the Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize presented by EXPO CHICAGO.The acquisition prize is dedicated to the purchase of artworks created by a woman-identifying artist that will be donated to the DePaul Art Museum. @depaulartmuseum

@barbaranessim @expochicago

#maddyinez #ceramics #expochicago #depaulartmuseum #chicago

Megan Mulrooney is thrilled to announce that Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez )has been awarded the 2025 Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize for our presentation @expochicago

2025 marks the third year of the Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize presented by EXPO CHICAGO.The acquisition prize is dedicated to the purchase of artworks created by a woman-identifying artist that will be donated to the DePaul Art Museum. @depaulartmuseum

@barbaranessim @expochicago

#maddyinez #ceramics #expochicago #depaulartmuseum #chicago

Megan Mulrooney is thrilled to announce that Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez )has been awarded the 2025 Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize for our presentation @expochicago

2025 marks the third year of the Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize presented by EXPO CHICAGO.The acquisition prize is dedicated to the purchase of artworks created by a woman-identifying artist that will be donated to the DePaul Art Museum. @depaulartmuseum

@barbaranessim @expochicago

#maddyinez #ceramics #expochicago #depaulartmuseum #chicago

Megan Mulrooney is thrilled to announce that Maddy Inez (@maddy_inez )has been awarded the 2025 Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize for our presentation @expochicago

2025 marks the third year of the Barbara Nessim Acquisition Prize presented by EXPO CHICAGO.The acquisition prize is dedicated to the purchase of artworks created by a woman-identifying artist that will be donated to the DePaul Art Museum. @depaulartmuseum

@barbaranessim @expochicago

#maddyinez #ceramics #expochicago #depaulartmuseum #chicago