Car

@carlyriegger.com

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Car (they/them) Disabled Interdisciplinary Artist ♿️ • Ceramics, glass, fiber, sculpture • MFA 3rd Year, UW-Madison • MA in Disability Studies, CUNY https://linktr.ee/carlyriegger

a white porcelain body cast of a torso, strung together with thread with a foam arm hanging at the end. Together they make one body. The porcelain torso is sitting on a cube of foam
A beeswax cast of a curled up body with her leg on her chest and foot by her hip. The beeswax is a very light yellow color. It is placed on a swirling circular, rippling, white bed sheet.
A clear sheet of glass folded on two corners. It has height in the center like a pillow is encased in it. Angled photograph.
A life cast of a leg casted in glass. Ceramic bits are embedded in the glass of the toes. The foot is broken from the ceramic bits and have visible fragmentation in the glass. The leg rests on a pile of several pillows that are uncovered.
three porcelain life casted objects: two legs and a hand on a tummy. They lay on a fluffy surface with a white bedsheet. From the bed, a pile of white pillows form a body that has the tummy and hand piece in the middle. The porcelain has cracks and some parts crumbled that lay on the bedsheet.
A stack of white pillows holding a glass bubble that has a ribcage wrapped around it. Beyond the glass piece is another ribcage hanging from the ceiling from yarn. It also has yarn drooping down as if the ribs were soft and melting.
Car with purple dyed hair in a mullet cut looks at the camera with a small smile next to their new work. Their piece "Gasp" a mix of ceramic and glass is to the right. They are wearing a black and gold shiny button down shirt with a black vest over top.
A close up image of a white bedsheet wrinkled with a porcelain foot laying on top. It is realistic taken from a life cast but also crumbling and falling apart.
Matt blows a bubble in hot glass. Car brings over a hot handmade ceramic ribcage from a kiln. They press it onto the bubble and Matt blows into the glass to fill the inside of the ribcage. When it's done, Car takes the piece off the pipe from Matt and places it into an annealer. The end is the finished result of ceramic and glass together in the gallery.
A poster for my MFA 2nd Year review titled "uncontained" in a dripping black font. Car's name below reads "Carly 'Car' Riegger." Above the title is a porcelain hand dripping water.
Inky lounging in bed with light shining through the drapes in the windows behind her. The bed has grey sheets. Inky is a black cat with a relaxed expression in the photo.
A drip of water on the end of a finger. The arm and hand is life casted and copied in white porcelain. There are cracks and some imperfections that remain in the porcelain.
Side view of a ceramic life casted arm holding their arm crutch.
A detail photo of ceramic from a life cast mold. It is of a hand pinching the side of the torso near the ribcage. It hangs from wire. Behind it is a handmade ribcage on the wall.
A detail of the dripping IV piece of the porcelain hand with a drip of water from its finger tip. Below is text that itself is dripping titled "uncontained" with text below that reading my name "Carly "Car" Riegger."
Casted Glass clear of a hand grabbing a tummy. It was life casted from a real person
A stack of white pillows with a porcelain ribcage on top
Clay ribcage sculptures sitting in a kiln waiting to be bisque fired.
A glass bubble on a pipe is carried over to a white plaster two part mold and sandwiched between the parts.
A video of a water dripping from a iv bag into a porcelain arm and then dripping onto a pillow on the ground.
An art piece with a porcelain arm and a blown glass IV bag with medical tubing stringing in between.