TRICIA CLINE


Tricia Cline was born in California in 1956. She is self-taught and began sculpting at 27. She has been sculpting the female and animal form for over 20 years.

Saints and Exiles from Stories Never Written, is an ode to the Animal, its ability to perceive, and our return to that perception. Her small, highly detailed porcelain clay sculptures are complex metaphors describing our relationship to animals and to ourselves as…Animals. The language of animals is the language of images. An image is not an idea with a defined meaning, it is itself an animal. An image is a vortex of complex feelings and concepts that present themselves in an intuitive instant (a vertical movement of inward deepening).

“This Woodstock, N.Y-based sculptor is self-taught, which shows in her otherworldly narratives but not in her remarkable technique, which looks like that of a well-trained but slightly eccentric Beaux Arts revivalist. Her pedestal-scale, unglazed porcelain sculpture features different versions of a young Everywoman in antique clothing with a totemic animal strapped to her back—a bird, a giant mouse, a fox—who seems to be embarked on some kind of supernatural pilgrimage.” - Ken Johnson, New York Times