Cups purchased can be picked up or shipped after the exhibition closes on December 8th, 2025.
Mid-Range Stoneware, Underglaze, Palladium Luster, 3D Printed 3.25"x3.25"x4.5" 2025
Born and raised in rural Southern Indiana, Justin Quaid Grubb earned a BFA in Ceramics from the Indiana University Indianapolis Herron School of Art and Design in 2019 and an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2021. Grubb is currently an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Stetson University in DeLand, FL. Prior to Stetson University, he held a teaching position at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, FL. He has actively exhibited work throughout the region, with recent solo exhibitions at TAG (The Art Gallery) at the University of West Florida, Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, LA and the Alexander Brest Gallery at Jacksonville University. Grubb has given an artist talk and workshop at Duke University and his work can be found in the University of West Florida's permanent collection.
Taking an autobiographical and sociological approach to making, manual labor and connection to material hold prominent positions in Grubb’s studio practice. Through analysis of personal experiences with domesticity, place, and belonging within micro and macro societal structures, the work operates as an extension of self. Communicating the identity of the maker through their objecthood, diversified interdisciplinary studies in studio art and technology are employed to craft these objects and challenge the bounds of a medium deeply rooted in tradition. The ceramic objects Grubb creates suggest a reformation or expansion of traditional craft categorizations and definitions through the study and visual application of queer theory. Emerging technologies are used to establish queerness as a precursor to innovation by disrupting norms associated with the ceramic medium. Grubb’s work rejects traditional presentation and positions the viewer in a space between the known and unknown; the familiar and the unfamiliar. It transcends time and space —not always existing in realty but acknowledging it.
