
Confluence 5
2025
Confluence 5 is a compact yet commanding earthenware vessel completed by Alex Anderson in 2025, its glazed surface carrying the layered depth of a work that rewards extended looking. The piece measures 21.6 × 19.1 × 17.8 cm, a scale that invites handling while projecting a quiet confidence in the hand, and the glaze treatment speaks to Anderson's sustained inquiry into how ceramic surfaces can hold contradiction, warmth beside coolness, stillness beside movement, within a single unified skin. Anderson works at the intersection of vessel tradition and sculptural ambition, and Confluence 5 sits comfortably in that productive tension. The title signals the artist's preoccupation with convergence, the meeting of forces, materials, and firing conditions that cannot be fully controlled, only coaxed. What results is an object that feels simultaneously intentional and discovered, shaped by both the maker's hand and the chemistry of the kiln. This balance between authorship and accident is central to Anderson's practice and gives each work in the series its particular character. For collectors, Confluence 5 represents an accessible entry into a body of work that is gaining sustained critical attention. The piece is signed, in good condition, and currently available through Superposition. Its modest footprint makes it versatile within a collection, equally at home in a considered domestic arrangement or alongside works in other media, and its material honesty, fired clay and glaze with nothing superfluous, ensures it will hold its presence over time.
- Medium
- Earthenware, glaze
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Superposition, LOS ANGELES, CA
- Spotted At
- Gallery · SuperpositionView on map
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