MUSCLE MEMORY
Muscle Memory Collective is a mixed-media collaborative project between ceramicist Joshua R. Clark and photographer Bree Lamb. Through the pairings of referential and uncanny objects and images, Muscle Memory seeks to create surface visions bound in expectation, excess, and desire, offering complex reflections of a capitalist American landscape. Bright, glossy facades contain a range of familiar visual cues, while the tone of the work vacillates between adoration and critique. Through such juxtaposition, Muscle Memory urges the viewer to consider the intersection of commodity, fantasy, and social currency.

#sunset, 2023

"Mineral Bath," 2022, recycled ceramics, digital collage, archival pigment print

Palate Cleanser, 2023

Baby Steps, 2022, archival pigment print, ceramics, wood, foam, cardboard

Sleepwalker, 2023

#oldfaithful 2, Wish You Were Here, 2022

"Self-Induced," 2022, ceramics, digital collage, archival pigment print, wood

"Dress Rehearsal," 2022, ceramics, archival pigment print, wood

"Higher Power," 2022, recycled ceramics, ceramics

"Double Vision," 2021, archival pigment print

"Go It Alone," 2022, ceramics, archival pigment print

"Out of Gamut," 2022, archival pigment print

"Death in Paradise," 2022, ceramics, resin, archival pigment print, wood

"Present Company Excluded," 2022, archival pigment print