Michael Velliquette will be signing copies of his new book, Lairs of the Unconscious. Selected new ceramic works will be available during the reception.
Lairs of the Unconscious is an early career survey of the contemporary artist Michael Velliquette. Working across varied media such as installation, paper sculpture, drawings, and ceramics, Velliquette takes inspiration from sources that include dreams, spirituality, world myths, and the occult. This 250 page, hardcover book contains more than 200 full color images along with four essays on the narrative themes and formal trajectories in his work.
"The apocalyptic, the mythic, and the decorative are spoken through a method that embraces, by turns, compulsion, ritual, and the fanciful."
-Michael Jay McClure, from Lairs of the Unconscious