Alice Gavalet | Pattern Play: Coming Soon | October 30 - January 30, 2026
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    Alice Gavalet | Pattern Play, Coming Soon | October 30 - January 30, 2026

    With Pattern Play, Alice Gavalet brings her joyful, instinctive vision to American audiences for the first time. Seventeen new and recent works—spanning vases, lamps, sconces, and tables—unveil a world where bright color, bold pattern, and sculptural form dance together. At the heart of the exhibition are two adventurous new pieces, a cabinet and coffee table, in which ceramic joins forces with oak and brass, expanding her practice into vibrant new territory.

    Gavalet’s creations feel at once spontaneous and deliberate, as if sketched into clay with a wink. Asymmetry, tartan grids, and painterly drips lend each object an exuberant rhythm, while imperfections—wobbly edges, bubbling glazes, visible clay—become part of the celebration. In her hands, ceramics shed rigidity, embracing play as a guiding principle.

    More than functional objects, Gavalet’s works emerge as painted sculptures: light-hearted yet complex, mischievous yet refined, each one pulsing with movement, vitality, and joy.

    “I find tartan to be a complex abstract art form with a strong mathematical undertone. It feels less like the sum of its parts and more like a unified aesthetic, yet every time I look at it, I discover something new—an endless variation.” - Renaud Vuiallat

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      Alice Gavalet

      After studying at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres and the Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Alice Gavalet began her career working for major fashion and interior design brands, and with designer Elizabeth Garouste. In 2010, she decided to refocus on her personal creation and set up her own studio in Nogent-sur-Marne, filled with felt-tip sketches and lined with boxes, vases, mirrors, lamps and other unique original pieces. Her creative process begins with drawing, a daily discipline that enables her to formalize her thoughts and bring her new pieces to life. She then assembles different materials – ceramics, metal, wood, fabric – and geometric shapes, combining them with bright colors to create objects that are witty, strong and honest. To Gavalet, ceramics is a game. The playful aspect of her work can be seen at every stage of creation, which must be joyful and instinctive. Her innate sense of color and pattern is enhanced by her work in engobe, which she favors for its matte appearance, and by her spontaneous technique, using slabs and colombin. Her sources of influence range from textiles to art brut and the decorative arts, from Betty Woodman and Ettore Sottsass to Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet and Paul Cox. Her pieces are strong but unprovocative, imposing themselves naturally. It’s this signature that attracts attention in France and abroad, where she exhibits extensively in galleries, art centers and Parisian and international fairs. She exhibited her work at Paris Design Week 2020 and has been featured in Architectural Digest, the Financial Times and Wallpaper Magazine.

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