Monica Rickhoff Wilson is an American artist, born in Colorado. She earned a BFA from Eastern Michigan University in 2003, where she studied Ceramics and Sculpture. Her ceramic work has been exhibited throughout Michigan, in Chicago, and up-state New York. Her Ceramic art exhibitions include WSG Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan; the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan; and the Robertson Gallery, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan. Her art works are currently available at WSG Gallery in Ann Arbor Michigan.
Residencies and workshops include Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina; Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, Colorado; Centro de Arte Curaumilla, Valparaiso, Chile; Maker Works, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Kripal Kumbh Pottery in Jaipur, India. Experience in glaze chemistry, photography, and plaster mold-making supplement her studio art practice. She works at the Potters Guild and from her home studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
"I am a ceramic sculptor and I formulate my own glazes. I bridge chemistry, geology, and art to create objects relating to comfort and desire. This current body of photography and sculpture stems from working at home during the pandemic. Close physical quarters fed the photography and the photography now feeds the ceramic sculpture. My ceramics are conglomerates of porcelain and terracotta, layers of color and pattern, and are fused with high and low temperature glazes. I use movement, weight, and the impulse to hold and keep, to build visceral sensations in both image and object.” -Monica Rickhoff Wilson, January 2023