Jeff Forster: Sanctuary for Salvage

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston, Texas
May 30–September 5, 2026

In this site-specific installation, Houston artist Jeff Forster works with reclaimed clay, glaze waste, and kiln debris to construct monumental columns that evoke historical ruins, rituals, and a sense of the sacred. Echoing totems, the columns of sacral architecture, and Japanese torii gates found in various spiritual spaces, Forster meditates on the symbolic and spiritual weight these pillars carry. By transforming materials like Styrofoam packaging into molds for his clay sculptures and reusing glaze waste, the artist’s process engages with themes of geological time and harnesses the unpredictable energy released during the firing process.