Irja Bodén
Visual artist working in printmaking, sculpture, ceramics / clay
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Irja Bodén
Visual artist working in printmaking, sculpture, ceramics / clay
Irja Bodén is a ceramic artist whose sculptures rise as stacked, scarred forms, built from vessels that are cut and reassembled. Working from the language of containment and rupture, she reshapes familiar silhouettes into architectonic structures that hold memory, fracture, and repair. Embossed surfaces and layered glazes gather light and shadow, suggesting sediment, landscape, and the passage of time.
She received her BFA in Visual Arts from the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Al Held Foundation; Amos Eno Gallery; Silvermine Gallery; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Woodstock Artists Association & Museum; Kin Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Immigrant Artist Biennial, among others. Bodén lives and works in Columbia County, New York.