Thought in Material: Selected Works 1984-2025

Gladstone presents its first survey of Andrew Lord's sculptural works, spanning the artist's production over the last 40 years. Comprising clay and bronze objects that illuminate the artist's conceptual approach to ceramics, the exhibition foregrounds the remarkable breadth of Lord's experimental and experiential oeuvre while revealing the harmony of his vision across decades. Eschewing function and decoration—elements that have historically relegated ceramics to the realm of craft—Lord's work investigates subjects ranging from the tactility of making to the light in Impressionist painting, from childhood memories of landscapes in his native England, to the atmospheric conditions on Carson Mesa, New Mexico.