Elisa D’Arrigo currently works in ceramics, after a 30 year hiatus in which she worked with various materials including hand-stitched and laminated cloth. D’Arrigo’s process is improvisational; in-the-moment decisions yield forms that seem improbable, yet also unexpectedly familiar, with a frequent undertone of humor. Her pieces conflate color, surface and animated sculptural form within the context of the glazed ceramic vessel. D’Arrigo has had 21 solo exhibitions, and her work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Everson Museum of Art, The Mead Art Museum, The High Museum of Art, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and The Weatherspoon Art Museum.Reviews, interviews and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, ArtNews, Sculpture, Partisan Review, ArtPapers, ArtSpiel, Too Much Art and The New York Observer, among others. She has enjoyed residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and Dieu Donne Papermill. She received a NYFA grant in 2003. D’Arrigo received a BFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. She was born and grew up in the Bronx, NY, and lives in New York City.