Reviews

Metaphysical Materiality by Linda Sikora, Issue 239 Sept-Oct Ceramics Review, 2009

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“Salvage (2008), a work Linda Sormin embarked on in post-Katrina New Orleans, is more project than piece. Soliciting/encountering objects, artifacts and tales from local residents, Sormin has attempted to fit her work next to, and have her work emerge out of , a more specific cultural plot (storyline; piece of ground)… The heightened physical urgency of the work and its increasing concern with structure (dwelling) and gravity – in the broadest sense – serves to remind us of how we make our place in the world.”

Two Views in Ceramics: Art & Perception by Diana Sherlock and Nicole Burisch, 2007

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“There are no discreet, cohesive or authentic identities within Sormin’s extreme ceramics. Each material, process and maker melts into the other – entangled in a hybrid where form and surface become one. The works are physically and conceptually provisional and unstable. Here creativity is about potentialities, a speculative utopianism that embraces chance, risk, failure and surprise.” — D. Sherlock

The Conative Object at York Quay Gallery by Corinna Ghaznavi, Curator, 2005

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“Linda Sormin is trained as a functional potter. While she remains dedicated to the material, her process is porous and investigative. Pushing her objects beyond the function of containers or vessels, she applies traditional potting techniques only to deconstruct and then rebuild her works. Her practice is an accumulation of and speculation on material and technique: her method becomes improvisational and performative as she crafts, and as the work grows in dialogue with craft practice. What remains of the vessel is mere citation as the work expands into space and begins to explore its relation to architecture.”