Laura Letinsky

Preparing for Flowers

July 22 – September 3, 2022

Two ceramic vase-like sculptures by Laura Letinsky

Yellow Kiss #27 & #28, Preparing for Flowers series, 2021
Porcelain; Glaze, white matte; yellow sugru
app. 27 x 5 x 7 inches (each)

Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Foiled 005,
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, white gloss on bottom; white matte on top; white gold

18 3/10h x 4 2/5w x 4 2/5d in
46.48h x 11.18w x 11.18d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 062
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2022

Porcelain; Glaze

N/A

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Foiled 001
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, white gloss on bottom; white matte on top; white gold

17 1/2h x 4 1/2w x 6d in
44.45h x 11.43w x 15.24d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 013 (Leaning to be Straight)
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, white matte; grey elephant

18 1/10h x 5 3/10w x 5 3/10d in
45.97h x 13.46w x 13.46d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 038
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, palladium, celadon snow c10 cone 6

6h x 7w x 5 1/2d in
15.24h x 17.78w x 13.97d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 065
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2022

Porcelain; Glaze

N/A

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 052
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; glaze

3 1/2h x 5w x 5d in
8.89h x 12.70w x 12.70d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 029,
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; glaze, white matte

13 17/20h x 5 7/10w x 5 7/10d in
35.18h x 14.48w x 14.48d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 018, from the series Preparing for Flowers

Porcelain, Sugru

26h x 8w x 8d in
66.04h x 20.32w x 20.32d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 030
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, white matte, pink sugru

12 3/10h x 9w x 9d in
31.24h x 22.86w x 22.86d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 048
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2019-20

Porcelain; Glaze, gold

9 1/2h x 4w x 4 1/4d in
24.13h x 10.16w x 10.80d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Foiled 004
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, white gloss on bottom; white matte on top; white gold

17 1/2h x 5 1/2w x 5 1/2d in
44.45h x 13.97w x 13.97d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 028
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, sugru

9 3/4h x 7w x 5 1/2d in
24.77h x 17.78w x 13.97d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 079
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2022

Porcelain; glaze

21 1/2h x 7w x 6d in
54.61h x 17.78w x 15.24d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 055
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porecelain; Glaze, wtf purple; white gloss

N/A

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 061, from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2022

Porcelain; glaze

19h x 8w x 8d in
48.26h x 20.32w x 20.32d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 012 (Leaning to be Straight)
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain, Glaze, white matte, beige

17 9/10h x 4 4/5w x 4 4/5d in
45.47h x 12.19w x 12.19d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 054
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze

10h x 6w x 4 1/2d in
25.40h x 15.24w x 11.43d cm

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Porcelain basket-shaped vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze

5 1/2h x 7 1/2w x 6d in
13.97h x 19.05w x 15.24d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Foiled 006,
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, white gloss on bottom; white matte on top; white gold; blue sugru

21 7/10h x 6 7/10w x 6 7/10d in
55.12h x 17.02w x 17.02d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 016
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, sugru

28h x 10w x 9d in
71.12h x 25.40w x 22.86d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 021,
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain; Glaze, Chun's satin mint; blue sugru

19 3/5h x 7w x 7d in
49.78h x 17.78w x 17.78d cm

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Porcelain vase by Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky

Untitled 007,
from the series Preparing for Flowers, 2020

Porcelain, glaze, wtf celadon; yellow sugru

21 7/10h x 9w x 9d in
55.12h x 22.86w x 22.86d cm

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Gallery installation view of Sandi Haber Fifield and Laura Letinsky
Gallery installation view of Sandi Haber Fifield and Laura Letinsky
Gallery installation view of Sandi Haber Fifield and Laura Letinsky
Gallery installation view of Sandi Haber Fifield and Laura Letinsky
Gallery installation view of Sandi Haber Fifield and Laura Letinsky

Press Release

Tracey Morgan Gallery is pleased to present Preparing for Flowers, an exhibition of new porcelain sculpture by Chicago based artist Laura Letinsky. This is our second solo exhibition with the artist, on view concurrent with a solo showing of photographs by Sandi Haber Fifield. An opening reception for both artists is sched-uled for Friday, July 22 from 6-8PM. 

Letinsky’s porcelain works were born from a desire for physicality, for a respite from the digital cacophony of contemporary life, for making simply for the sake of making. The resulting pieces reflect this ethos, their ges-tural forms existing outside any need for conceptual rigor. 

While a departure from Letinsky’s more prominent medium of photography, the sculptures in this exhibition are crafted with a similar sensibility and are a seamless continuation of her photographic practice. The porce-lain objects feel as if they could have been born from one of her still life photographs - a three-dimensional manifestation of a two-dimensional surface - delicate, airy, poetic, and lyrical. 

Partially inspired by kintsugi (the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery), this work embraces imperfec-tions and unpredictably, the element of chance intrinsic to the final pieces. The thin porcelain takes on a flesh-like quality as it sags and bends during firing - adding a humanistic element to the relationships be-tween the individual forms.

Laura Letinsky received a BFA from the University of Manitoba, 1986, and MFA from Yale University’s School of Art, 1991 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. Past exhibitions have been presented by The Israeli International Photography Festival; Mumbai Photog-raphy Festival; MIT, Cambridge, MA; The Photographers Gallery, London, Denver Art Museum, CO; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography; Casino Luxembourg; Mu-seum of Modern Art, NY; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Collections include the Art Institute of Chi-cago; The Amon Carter Museum, The John Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Grants and awards include the Canada Coun-cil International Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, The Canada Council Project Grants, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.