Celeste Tooth
Nerves Below the Surface
2023
Acrylic sheets and small battery powered light
19” x 13” x 1.5”
$1000
Website: https://www.instagram.com/littlepileofteeth/
Maryland, USA
2023
Acrylic sheets and small battery powered light
19” x 13” x 1.5”
$1000
Website: https://www.instagram.com/littlepileofteeth/
Maryland, USA
Paroxysms of Access; No Admission
2022
Plywood coated with enamel
19.5” x 21” x .5”
NFS
2022
Plywood coated with enamel
19.5” x 21” x .5”
NFS
ARTIST INTERVIEW with ASL interpretation:
ABOUT THE ART:
Nerves Below the Surface:
This is a piece about one of my medical conditions, Lipomyelomeningocele, which I've had three pretty major neurosurgeries for and just kind of talking about living with, you know, a spinal cord injury and that experience. This piece I created in Rhino 3D, which is a digital software program. And then I cut these pieces individually on the laser cutter and acrylic welded them together.
Paroxysms of Access:
This piece was about the lack of accessibility and ADA compliance at my school. This was a site specific piece that I briefly had up in front of this area in the sculpture building that's only accessible via stairs, which is obviously not great. A lot of my work involves disability justice as well as the actual act of creating sculptures.
This is a piece about one of my medical conditions, Lipomyelomeningocele, which I've had three pretty major neurosurgeries for and just kind of talking about living with, you know, a spinal cord injury and that experience. This piece I created in Rhino 3D, which is a digital software program. And then I cut these pieces individually on the laser cutter and acrylic welded them together.
Paroxysms of Access:
This piece was about the lack of accessibility and ADA compliance at my school. This was a site specific piece that I briefly had up in front of this area in the sculpture building that's only accessible via stairs, which is obviously not great. A lot of my work involves disability justice as well as the actual act of creating sculptures.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Celeste Tooth (they/them) is a old non-binary lesbian interdisciplinary artist and activist whose work centers on their identity as a disabled person and the extended disability community. They have exhibited in numerous exhibitions throughout the continental US. Upcoming shows include the 2024 VSA Emerging Artists exhibition at the Kennedy Center, Opulent Mobility, and their first solo show The Body Out of Motion which opens in April 2024. Recent publications include Beloved Zine and Look Deeper Zine. Their work in Drawn Poorly Zine is archived at the Wellcome Collection Museum in London.
Tooth is also engaged in disability justice advocacy work in various contexts including being selected as a France-Merrick Fellow working with artists at Make Studio Baltimore, a Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow, a Covid Safe Campus Ambassador, and a Diversity Coordinator at Maryland Institute College of Art’s Office of Culture and Identity. They are currently working as head curator on their 3rd exhibition centering Disabled artists in Baltimore city. Their commentary on ableism has been featured in magazines such as Hyperallergic, Xtra Magazine, and The Art Newspaper. They attend Maryland Institute College of Art on numerous scholarships. In 2024 they will graduate with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a humanistic studies minor in Gender Studies and an arts minor in Illustration. Their current art practice is supported by a generous grant from the Kennedy Center.
Tooth is also engaged in disability justice advocacy work in various contexts including being selected as a France-Merrick Fellow working with artists at Make Studio Baltimore, a Transform Mid-Atlantic Civic Fellow, a Covid Safe Campus Ambassador, and a Diversity Coordinator at Maryland Institute College of Art’s Office of Culture and Identity. They are currently working as head curator on their 3rd exhibition centering Disabled artists in Baltimore city. Their commentary on ableism has been featured in magazines such as Hyperallergic, Xtra Magazine, and The Art Newspaper. They attend Maryland Institute College of Art on numerous scholarships. In 2024 they will graduate with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a humanistic studies minor in Gender Studies and an arts minor in Illustration. Their current art practice is supported by a generous grant from the Kennedy Center.
DESCRIPTIONS:
Nerves Below the Surface
In the center for this oval sculpture is a cross section of a single vertebra with a bright white light shining through the opening for the spinal cord. Blue lines zig-zag out from the vertebra creating irregular shapes, many with spiked tips. Some of these tips have spots of red or orange. Two pairs of long blue lines arc at the top and bottom. The top pair has pointed tips adorned with red spots in a leaf shape of yellow. The bottom pair is separated by rays of yellow. More spikes of yellow jut out from the sides of the oval.
Paroxysms of Access; No Admission
In this abstract work branching bright red shapes are scattered on a pock marked, matte white background. The shapes are irregular, many with sharp jagged tips. In the center is a shape that resembles a rib cage or an insect’s body and wings. Long antler-like shapes expand right and left from the rib cage. A large, curved group of shapes flow from the right side of the rib cage and bend left.
-descriptions by Teri Grossman
In the center for this oval sculpture is a cross section of a single vertebra with a bright white light shining through the opening for the spinal cord. Blue lines zig-zag out from the vertebra creating irregular shapes, many with spiked tips. Some of these tips have spots of red or orange. Two pairs of long blue lines arc at the top and bottom. The top pair has pointed tips adorned with red spots in a leaf shape of yellow. The bottom pair is separated by rays of yellow. More spikes of yellow jut out from the sides of the oval.
Paroxysms of Access; No Admission
In this abstract work branching bright red shapes are scattered on a pock marked, matte white background. The shapes are irregular, many with sharp jagged tips. In the center is a shape that resembles a rib cage or an insect’s body and wings. Long antler-like shapes expand right and left from the rib cage. A large, curved group of shapes flow from the right side of the rib cage and bend left.
-descriptions by Teri Grossman
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