Miami, Florida

Hand-built vessels and sculptural work in clay.

Consuelo Becerra is an Argentine-born artist working in clay, based in Miami, Florida. She builds each piece by hand, with white glazes and details in gold, and lets the material keep the marks of how it was made: torn rims, encrusted surfaces, forms that hold their own irregularity.

Her relationship with clay begins where the material does, in the ground itself. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions and pop-ups in New York and Miami, and in contemporary art benefit auctions.

Wide hand-built ceramic vessel with a torn rim and heavily encrusted lower surface in cream stoneware, by Consuelo Becerra
Cobalt blue hand-built vessel with gold lustre by Consuelo Becerra, view 1 of 6
Cobalt blue hand-built vessel with gold lustre by Consuelo Becerra, view 2 of 6
Cobalt blue hand-built vessel with gold lustre by Consuelo Becerra, view 3 of 6
Cobalt blue hand-built vessel with gold lustre by Consuelo Becerra, view 4 of 6
Cobalt blue hand-built vessel with gold lustre by Consuelo Becerra, view 5 of 6
Cobalt blue hand-built vessel with gold lustre by Consuelo Becerra, view 6 of 6
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Two hand-built ceramic vessels formed from interlocking clay loops, one dark stoneware and one white, by Consuelo Becerra
Low hand-built ceramic bowl in dark charcoal clay with a torn, jagged rim, by Consuelo Becerra
Tall tapering hand-built ceramic vessel with heavy vertical texture in grey and green tones, holding a dried botanical stem, by Consuelo Becerra
Hand-built ceramic bottle in ochre stoneware with carved white vertical lines and speckled glaze, by Consuelo Becerra
Hand-built ceramic bottle with a nest of coiled handles around the neck and a pale glossy glaze, by Consuelo Becerra
Hand-built ceramic vessel with a torn rim, rough dark exterior and pale glazed interior, by Consuelo Becerra
Round hand-built ceramic vessel with an encrusted textured surface in earth tones, by Consuelo Becerra
Hand-built ceramic vessel encrusted with a polychrome coral reef in relief, held above a swimming pool, by Consuelo Becerra, view 1 of 5
Coral reef ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra showing modelled kelp, anemones and fish in coloured glazes, view 2 of 5
Coral reef ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra held over turquoise water, showing the blue glazed base, view 3 of 5
Coral reef ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra with a modelled handle and encrusted rim, view 4 of 5
Coral reef ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra in sunlight above a pool, showing coral and shell relief, view 5 of 5
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Squat hand-built ceramic vessel with a torn flared rim, covered in overlapping scale-like nubs in mottled green and teal glaze, by Consuelo Becerra, view 1 of 6
Close view into the mouth of the scaled green vessel by Consuelo Becerra, showing the pooled glaze inside the rim, view 2 of 6
Scaled green ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra seen from the front, showing the open mouth, view 3 of 6
Scaled green ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra turned to show the shoulder and rim, view 4 of 6
Scaled green ceramic vessel by Consuelo Becerra from a lower angle, showing the rounded body, view 5 of 6
Detail of the reptilian scale texture and green glaze on the vessel by Consuelo Becerra, view 6 of 6
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Hand-built ceramic jar with a branch-like modelled handle arching from neck to shoulder, green glazes running over exposed buff stoneware, by Consuelo Becerra, view 1 of 4
The same ceramic jar by Consuelo Becerra from the opposite side, showing vertical glaze drips over unglazed clay, view 2 of 4
Detail of the antler-like handle on the ceramic jar by Consuelo Becerra, with modelled twigs against green glaze, view 3 of 4
Close detail of the modelled branch handle and pooled green glaze on the jar by Consuelo Becerra, view 4 of 4
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Tall hand-built ceramic vessel flaring wide at the mouth from a narrow foot, its surface covered in applied petal-like fragments in white glaze with gold lustre highlights, by Consuelo Becerra, view 1 of 8
The white and gold flared vessel by Consuelo Becerra seen from the front, showing the torn ruffled rim, view 2 of 8
The white and gold flared vessel by Consuelo Becerra from the side, showing how the form widens from the foot, view 3 of 8
Looking into the mouth of the white flared vessel by Consuelo Becerra, with the smooth glazed interior against the encrusted rim, view 4 of 8
Overhead view into the white and gold vessel by Consuelo Becerra, showing gold lustre along the ruffled edge, view 5 of 8
Detail of the applied white petals and gold lustre on the flared vessel by Consuelo Becerra, view 6 of 8
Close detail of the layered white surface and gold marks on the vessel by Consuelo Becerra, view 7 of 8
Macro detail of the gold lustre running between the white applied fragments, by Consuelo Becerra, view 8 of 8
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