Pitcher with Oval Handle

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray blends her academic knowledge of metalsmithing and her desire to understand objects and materials by upending concepts of both. With Pitcher with Oval Handle, Mimlitsch-Gray has exaggerated hammering marks (or planishes) that historically signified the human hand in production. Her treatment, transforming process into texture and pattern, draws attention to histories of handcraftsmanship. Countering industrial manufacturing, she is interested in the investigation of ideas, not the creation of a functional object in a formal sense.