Elyse Grams received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2017 and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio from the Maine College of Art in 2020. Her work was selected for the 2020 CMCA Biennial in Rockland, ME. She was a 2019 fellow at the Artist Campaign School and a 2019 Resident at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Revenant Gallery, San Antonio, TX, and at S.M.A.R.T. Project space in San Antonio, TX. Other work has been shown in group shows in Texas, Tennessee, New Hampshire, and Maine. She has curated exhibitions at Corporate Gallery in San Antonio, TX, the Window Space at Maine College of Art, in Portland, ME, and at New Systems Exhibitions, in Portland, ME. Grams lives and works in Portland, ME.
Grams jumps around in history and switches back and forth between ceramic and fiber objects in her practice using the materials and language of craft to highlight and dissect the veneer of Neoclassical aesthetic morality currently present in American culture.
The objects and architecture that are ubiquitous in American homes, political institutions, and museums make visible the context of the cultural systems they exist within. By confronting the canon of ceramics and fiber art history and the foundation of the moral systems of America Grams compares the ideological agenda and lived experience of White women to the domestic objects we surround ourselves in an effort to better understand and subvert the subliminal biases she has grown up with.