Rachel Garceau
Rachel Garceau is recognized for her slip-cast porcelain forms and site-responsive installations. Her work often begins with a curiosity about an object or place, seeking deeper understanding through intimate engagement with porcelain. Garceau has received numerous residencies, including at Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum in Denmark and the Hambidge Center in Georgia, and has completed public commissions for the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs and FLUX Projects. Her work has been exhibited widely and published in Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, the NCECA Journal, and CAST: Art and Objects. She was recognized as a 2015 Emerging Artist by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and one of 2017’s Women to Watch by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
LOCATION: Ballroom Pre-function
Kindred Peaks
Atlanta, GA
Statement from the Artist
Garceau’s artwork explores the tension between stasis and transformation through sixty-five porcelain forms inspired by pine cone scales. Each piece shares a common base yet grows outward with varying depths and shapes, reflecting themes of predictability giving way to evolution and change. The composition also subtly echoes the three mountain peaks of the Kindred logo. Rooted in her fascination with nature’s details — flower petals, seed pods, nests, and bowers – her work captures fleeting moments like windswept grasses, rippling water, and fallen snow. She is currently immersed in studying the sacred geometry of plant growth, bringing these organic patterns into delicate, contemplative form.
