1053 Gallery is pleased to present, WARPED VESSEL is pleased to present Warped Vessel, on view November 1 through December 21, 2025, with an opening reception on Saturday, November 1, from 4PM to 7PM. The exhibition includes new works in clay and fiber by seven artists in New York and beyond: Julie Evans, Joy Ray, Tessa Richardson, Richard Saja, Sarah Rose Sharp, Melissa Webb and Susan Yelavich.

Here's an invocation. An altar. A subversion. As the earth enters the dark half of the year, we celebrate the elemental and the sensual. These seven artists incorporate the experimental and the conceptual in fiber and clay with ebullient energetic constraint. There's plush wordplay. Ropes and perversions of historic tapestry. Pops of color bound by earthy greens and neutral hues. An homage to the primordial, the organisms crawling out of the sea. Here we experience the spicy last bursts of brightness before the fallow, the life force slowly returning to ground, and a turn to cold monochrome.

Upstate, New York-based artists Susan Yelavich and Julie Evans bring their painting backgrounds into fiber and clay, respectively, Yelevich exploring streams and stone walls with thread and Evans re-envisioning organic forms through sculpture and voluptuous wall pieces. Joy Ray extracts visual language from notable texts, giving words new life and structure through media including thrifted denim, fabric and paint. Detroit-based artist, Melissa Webb, creates fiber installations that immerse the viewer in work that is both natural and industrial in scope; Sarah Rose Sharp, also residing in Detroit, plays with kitsch and Folk Art motifs in her mixed-media embroidered works. New York-based artist, Richard Saja, embellishes and subverts found tapestries and historic images with toile. Tulsa, Oklahoma-based artist, Tessa Richardson, merges marine shapes like tentacles and sucker cups with clay and experimental surface treatments.