Hold

Project Room Julia Haft-Candell: Hold is Haft-Candell's first exhibition with Rebecca Camacho Presents. Haft-Candell works across media, but her practice is rooted in clay-based sculpture. She incorporates multi-layered glazes often with bronze and gold flourishes into sculptural objects whose forms are derived from the artist's visual lexicon, comprising specific symbols and motifs such as combs, hands, chains, and infinity loops. These symbols and forms were created from a space of discontent with norms and standards, sparking expansion and learning by making and doing. Inquiry guides Haft-Candell's process, and she continually experiments with new methods, forms, and materials. Guided by an evolving personal philosophy she calls 'The Infinite,' Haft-Candell's works and the pedagogy informing her methods as an educator are rooted in the ideals that constitute this ever-evolving fictional world. Sculptures that hold, contain, and behold underpin Haft-Candell's newest body of work on view at Rebecca Camacho Presents. Employing sgraffito, a technique of carving into clay before firing, allows Haft-Candell to achieve a particular variation in textures and colors in the surfaces of her work. This technique is evident in Light Holder with Mood Chart (2024), a sculpture of a hand extended backwards that doubles as a lamp adorned with chains of loops that splay across its surface. Hand Holder with Legs (2024) also dabbles in duality - it is both sculpture and stool - an object to be seen, experienced, and used. Legsconce with Drops (2024) is a sculpture masquerading as an illuminated wall sconce, captured in a state of genesis, of becoming, as legs extend outward from the clay body holding them. Julia Haft-Candell (b. 1982, Oakland, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received a BA in Studio Art and International Relations from University of California at Davis in 2005 and a MFA from California State University Long Beach in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA (2024); Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA (2023); Candice Madey, New York, NY (2022; 2020); and Parrasch Heijen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2023); Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Canada, New York, NY (2022); LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2020); the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018); Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2018); amongst others.

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