August, 2025 - April, 2026
At Home in Ourselves
Maxim Seisler & Nicole Seisler
Maxim Seisler and Nicole Seisler are bringing two separate collections of ceramic and clay sculpture to the space, alongside some special collaborative pieces from their ongoing thirteen-year project.
Patience, warmth, and a deep-rooted drive to share are at the heart of their work together. Maxim (NY) and Nicole (OR) have had their hands in clay together every single time they’ve visited one another since Maxim was born. Whether they are acting as aunt and nephew, teacher and student, or simply as best friends, their creative connection is a constant.
Biography
Three interdependent, mutually-reinforcing areas comprise Nicole’s practice: making, educating, and curating. This tripod enables each aspect to support the others, thereby creating a platform for her broader, pluralistic vision for ceramics as a conceptual field.
Nicole received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has exhibited her work at museums ranging from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts Tallahassee to the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, CA, and the two-person exhibition In Hand: Contemporary Material Engagements with the Built World at the Kennedy Museum at Ohio University.
Nicole has taught ceramics for almost fifteen years at as many universities — from SAIC and the University of Washington, to Scripps College and UCLA — and she is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Ceramics at Lewis & Clark College.
As Founder and Director of the contemporary ceramics platform A-B Projects, Nicole has curated forty exhibitions and offers alternative educational programming that reevaluates and redefines the trajectory of contemporary ceramics.