Sasha Koozel Reibstein: Eternity Utters A Day

Quint Gallery is pleased to present Sasha Koozel Reibstein: Eternity Utters A Day, the artist's third solo exhibition with the gallery. Opening October 17, the exhibition marks a new direction in Reibstein's practice, transforming the gallery space into an installation centered on the vessel, here considered as a container that holds both matter and time through her maximal approach to color, texture, and material.

Including more than 70 handbuilt candlesticks, vases, and other fired clay vessels holding flowers, wax, and other organic matter, the exhibition expands upon the accumulating visual vocabulary that has become signature to Reibstein's work. Exaggerated drip forms coated in metallic luster finishes, looping curvatures in the primary clay body that suggest portals or windows, and colorful rubble textures created from bits of glazed studio debris play into the porous boundaries she draws between the animate and inanimate, and the familiar and the uncanny. These new works resist both the inertness typically associated with sculpture and the decorative utility of one of ceramics' most enduring forms, instead offering the vessel as a vehicle for materials in states of increasing entropy, flux, and decay. They become containers in a broader sense, holding growth, traces of time and information, and acts of care and ritual.

The exhibition's title is drawn from a translation of a Hebrew prayer, invoking the relationship between immeasurable time and the present moment. Reibstein began developing the exhibition before receiving a sudden diagnosis of a rare form of lung cancer. As she has continued working throughout chemotherapy treatment, concepts of memento mori, resilience, and regeneration under pressure—ideas already present in her practice—have taken on an unexpected immediacy. Together, these elements shape an environment attuned to cycles of transformation, dormancy, and renewal, and to the expansiveness of geological time in relation to both the natural world and the human body.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sasha Koozel Reibstein lives and works in San Diego, California. She has worked and exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including projects in Germany, Denmark, Hungary, and China. Her work has been presented in more than eighty national and international exhibitions, including at Zentrum für Keramik, Berlin; Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark; ArtSpace 1, Beijing; Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego; the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona; the Archie Bray Foundation, Helena; the Morris Graves Museum, Eureka; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Mingei International Museum; and San Diego International Airport. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, HereIn Journal, Maake Magazine, Art Ltd., Ceramics: Art and Perception, Ceramics Monthly, Glasstire, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Simayspace, and NY Arts Magazine, among other publications.