Richard Hawkins, “Norogachi: Ceramics After Artaud”

Hawkins presents the latest in a series of ceramic plaques based on the talismanic, visionary drawings made by French avant-garde dramatist and poet Antonin Artaud while Artaud was a psychiatric patient during the late ’30s and ’40s. Hawkins’s work channels the anguished, incandescent spirit of the originals, which Artaud created as a form of therapy (or exorcism, as he put it) for the mental illness that consumed the final years of his life.