SPRAY CANS

Beginning in 2006 Carrie Reichardt created a variety of unique ceramic spray cans. They are ceramic slips with silver luster, on-glaze and layered with printed transfers. Carrie Reichardt chose the spray can because it is a contemporary, iconic symbol of resistance that resonates with a growing audience for urban and street art. She wanted to expose them to certain ideas, to a particular kind of political content. Graffiti, writing on walls is a potent, expressive form. Carrie experimented with different shapes and forms of spray cans. Using a range of traditional and experimental techniques Reichardt could introduce the kind of images and texts to the clay surface, that she would have referenced if she had the ability to use a real aerosol can artfully. Capital punishment and colonialism are dominant themes. These ideas are juxtaposed, composited and bonded by the process, into the surface of the objects. Every spray can is an original work of art.