Title: Out of the Bottle, 2020
Size: 25" x 7" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, bullet casings, glass bottle, plaster
Title: Venus Revisits the Exodus, 2017
Size: 13' x 11' x 6
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Bluebloods, 2016
Size: 12" x 12" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, bullet casings
Title: Hands Up, 2017
Size: 14" x 8" x 8"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, bullet casings
Title: Salome, 2015
Size: 14" x 10" x 9"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Stomp, 2015 AVAILABLE
Size: 13" x 12" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Girls Got Guns, back view
Title: Pomme, 2015
Size: 16" x 16" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, glass beads
Title: And Justice For Some, 2017
Size: 12" x 12" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, nails
Title: Girls Got Guns, 2016
Size: 14" x 6" x 4"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, bullet casings, wire, decals
Title: Southern Sogolon, 2017
Size: 14" x 11" x 7"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Queen Nzinga, 2017
Size: 18" x 7" x 7"
Medium: ceramic mosaic, porcupine quills
Title: In the Garden, 2015
Size: 14" x 7" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Serve, 2015
Size: 12" x 5" x 5"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Blue Boy Girl Boy, 2017
Size: 12" x 7" x 7"
Medium: ceramic mosaic AVAILABLE
Title: Peace Offering, 2015
Size: 15" x 7" x 7"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Pretty in Pink, 2015
Size: 15" x 11" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Maraschino, 2011
Size: 12" x 7" x 7"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: State of Heads, 2012
Size: 12" x 9" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: My Cup of Tea, 2012
Size: 14" x 9" x 9"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Cuppa, 2012
Size: 12" x 7" x 6"
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Theory of Natural Selection #1, 2021
Size: 20"h x 12"w x 8"d
Medium: ceramic mosaic
Title: Theory of Natural Selection: Mami Wata, 2021
Size: 18"h x 18"w x 8"d
Medium: ceramic, cowrie shell mosaic
Figurines 2012-2022
This series honors the history of the figurine since humankind began. From the Venus figurines that were kept on a person’s body, hung from a neck, secreted in a pocket or placed in a niche for safekeeping, to modern day mantle ware that evokes a fabricated pristine era of propriety. Why were they made?... Were they created to empower, to make fertile, to provide solace, to give status? Who did they represent? More importantly, who do they represent today? These are questions I address in my recycled, repurposed and reimagined works which I create in honor of my daughters, who are the new generation of the ideal. They are a mixture of countries, religions, races, ethnicities. They are Swiss Africans, Mennonite Muslims in black and white. They are the new world. Ronna Neuenschwander