Sculptural forms and textures—often accidental—arise from my conversations with clay. As I build my sculptures, I grapple with whatever I’m experiencing: confusion, conflict, grief or joy. And, I intend for the final piece to reveal the journey of its making.
Corinne Peterson (b.1937, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Chicago-based ceramic sculptor. A dream of clay in 1986 prompted Peterson to take a ceramics class. Several years later, she quit her psychotherapy practice to work fulltime in ceramics. She employs universal symbols and archetypes as she explores the inner life through sculpture. Peterson’s public work includes Hopes and Dreams, installed in the Roosevelt and State CTA Station, Chicago, Illinois, and Seven Markers in Advocate Lutheran General Hospital’s Meditation Garden in Park Ridge, Illinois. Her work is also in numerous private collections.
