Artist of the Day ~ ACGA Member Phyllis Pacin

My love of two-dimensional design, coupled with my lifelong involvement with clay, has manifested itself in my creating perfectly flat wall work with a twist. Playing with the space within the picture plane, and the illusions this creates, has become as important as the composition of my subject matter. The result is a unique interplay of two and three dimensions.

I design my work, arrangements of hand-rolled and textured raku-fired tiles mounted on acrylic or wood, as free hanging pieces. While some works are composed of square tiles, more often I work with parallelogram-shaped tiles, which I arrange into architectural compositions that have a trompe l’oeil illusion of three-dimensional form. In addition to free hanging wall sculpture, I create unique tile designs as accents and murals for building interiors.

My artwork hangs in museums and public, private and corporate collections worldwide.