Set in Stone

Set in Stone, Mariah McLaughlin’s culmination of a yearlong Printer-in-Residence, brings together a body of work that combines ceramics and screenprinting to expand the limits of traditional printmaking. By moving printed imagery onto clay and treating ceramic surfaces as sites for layering, repetition, and variation, the work expands screenprinting beyond a t-shirt or paper.

At the center of this process is an interest in line, texture, and composition. Using a small set of visual sources, each piece becomes an opportunity to rearrange, distort, and rebuild imagery in new ways. Repetition is not used to produce sameness, but to generate difference: subtle shifts in placement, color, surface, and material create unexpected relationships between mark and object.

The resulting works exist between printing and sculpture, image and artifact. Set in Stone reflects an ongoing exploration of how a traditional print process can be translated, disrupted, and re-imagined through clay.