I view my work as an act of homage to each person whose portrait I capture. Each piece is an act of resistance to white supremacy. By choosing ceramic, I align myself with a medium that not only stands the test of time, but will leave a trace of how we as humans have lived.
Cristal Sabbagh (b.1972, Columbus, Ohio) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes traditional portraiture, ceramics, and performance. Her practice looks outward to portraits of the world around, taking the forms of traditionally drawn portraits, nontraditional portraits on ceramic. She is the creator and curator of Freedom From and Freedom To events that are improvisational performance environments which interrogate movement and sound.
