With ceramic teapots, sunflowers, bread plates, and bunnies piled up in masses of buoyant optimism, Joan Bankemper transforms traditionally modest tableware into miniature architectural follies. Each of her sculptures is created with hundreds of ceramics from molds she has collected. Bankemper’s work is influenced by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), whose ceramic encrusted church, the Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, is one of the most striking monuments conceived in the...
