Celia Gerard’s practice occupies a hybrid space between architectural structure and atmospheric fragility. Repeating geometric motifs—triangles, arcs, radiating planes—are embedded within veiled, sanded surfaces that suggest both accumulation and erosion. Each work evolves through a durational process that deliberately foregrounds its own making and unmaking. The material operations—scoring, layering, tearing—function as both formal strategies and conceptual signals, questioning the permeability of boundaries (between object and image, gesture and structure, presence and trace) while searching for objectively true form.
Celia Gerard (b. 1973, raised in NYC) received her BA with Honors in Art and Art History from Colgate University, her MFA in Sculpture from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture and her EdM from Harvard University. In addition, she studied with Nicolas Carone and Bruce Gagnier at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. One-person exhibitions include Sears-Peyton Gallery; Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson, WY; John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY. Her work has been included in numerous national and international group exhibitions, including the National Academy Museum, New York, NY and Harvard University. Awards and grants include the S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Award for graphics from the National Academy Museum; Artist-in-residence, the New York Studio School; Seligman/ Von Simpson award for excellence in sculpture; LCU foundation grant; and a sculpture fellowship from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Her work has been written about in ARTnews, The Daily Beast, ARTSY, Artspace, The NY Sun, Parabola, works & conversations, and City Arts. She currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and has taught at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Bard College, Swarthmore, the New York Studio School, Saint Ann’s School and Riker’s Island Correctional Facility. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.