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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
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Glass Pillowcase
Glass
2025

#Disability #DisabledArtist #glass #pillows
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 clear sheet of glass folded on two corners. It has height in the center like a pillow is encased in it.
June 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Excavate
Glass, ceramic bits, pillows
2025
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. A closer view of the broken glass foot with tan shards of ceramic in it. A close view of the toes with bits of ceramic
May 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A Resting Place for an Aching Body, 2025.
Porcelain, Pillows, bed sheet, pillow sheets.

Nicer detail shots from my qualifier exhibition!
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 detail photograph of a porcelain life casted thigh and knee connected to a pillow that has many creases and folds A slight different angle of the pillows stacked up that form a body with the legs coming out to the right A detail of the other knee with a hand grabbing the leg tightly. There are many cracks in the porcelain
March 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Uncontained, 2025.

This image shows pieces: Gasp and Weighed Down.

More beautiful install shots ❤️
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.
March 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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New professional photo 💘
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.
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Exciting moments from my qualifier. More images coming soon! #disability #art #ceramics
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.
February 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The process of a piece that's currently in my qualifier exhibition!

Gasp, 2025.

#ceramics #glass #art #disability #disabledartist
February 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I can't believe this is so soon! Installing this weekend 😬 I have some exciting surprises in my newest pieces that I'm excited to share with everyone. #disability #DisabledArtist #ceramics #porcelain #clay
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.
February 13, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Everyone loves Inky photos 🖤🐈‍⬛️
#blackcat #inky
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. Inky, a black cat, in a silly position with her head upside down, tucked under her on the couch. She has bright yellow eyes and a pink string is next to her. Inky faces the camera in a loaf position, relaxed expression with windows and drapes in the background. Her eyes are half closed as she looks at the camera. She's ready for a nap. Inky looks up at the camera from a curled position in a white, oval bathroom sink. She gives a meek, silly expression. Her eyes are very big in the photo and she looks like a little baby. We call her "Sinky" when she sits in the sink.
February 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Uncontained
2024
Porcelain, water, glass, steel cable and hardware, pillow, medical tubing, and needle.

#disabled #disability #DisabledArtist #Porcelain #Ceramics #CeramicsSculpture #IVBag #Glass
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. A white wall and concrete floor that has a white pillow set on the floor. Above it hangs a porcelain arm strung up with steel cable with an IV line dripping into it. It is connected to a handmade glass IV bag which is also hanging from the ceiling with steel cable. A closer photo containing only the arm with the IV line and IV bag. A close detail photo of the handmade glass blown IV bag. It holds water and is held with metal clips and steel cable. At the bottom are the drip connections to the medical tubing line.
February 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Arm Crutch
2024
Ceramic

#disability #DisabledArtist #ArmCrutch #cane #MobilityAid #Accessibility
Side view of a ceramic life casted arm holding their arm crutch. A full view of the arm resting in the arm crutch made out of ceramic, originally taken from a silicone life cast. The arm rests on a bed of the crutch and ends in a grip that the hand holds. A close detail of the crutch that originally was made of plastic that now mimics the texture in ceramic.
January 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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A Portal Inside, 2024.
Ceramic, steel cable and hardware
#Ceramics #Stoneware #Lifecast #SiliconeMold #MFA #CripClay #DisabledArtist #Disability #EDS #ChronicIllness
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 dramatically lit ceramic piece that is a life cast hand pinching a torso with a ribcage on the other side of it. There is space between the two pieces. The torso is hanging from the ceiling by steel cable and the ribcage is hanging on the wall. The shadows are stark on the white wall behind it. A direct photo showing the space, about a foot, between the two ceramic objects: torso and ribcage. The handmade ribcage has lots of finger and handprints embedded in it while the life cast looks exactly like skin. A detail shot of only the ribcage which is cut in half and hanging on the wall by thr sternum and vertebrae.
January 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My MFA Qualifier Exhibition is coming up soon! February 17 - 21, 2025. Reception on Friday, February 21st from 5-7pm.

The qualifier exhibition is the equivalent of a second year review, defending my work to qualify for my final thesis exhibition next academic year.
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."
January 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Here's a wide array of both glass and ceramic pieces!
Casted Glass clear of a hand grabbing a tummy. It was life casted from a real person A hanging porcelain arm with IV medical tubing connected to it with a hanging glass blown IV bag holding water. A grey glass partial ribcage sitting on bedsheets and a pillow. A hand pinching the side of an abdomen that hangs in front of a ribcage on the wall. There is space between the pieces that form a body.
January 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Pillow Stack and Ribcage
2024

Porcelain, Pillows, steel rod, wood

#cripclay #disability #disabledartist #ceramics #porcelain #cripart
A stack of white pillows with a porcelain ribcage on top The same pieces of white pillow stack with a ribcage on top. A detail photo of the porcelain ribcage warping on top of a white pillow
January 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Random assortment of recent things I've been making!
Clay ribcage sculptures sitting in a kiln waiting to be bisque fired. 3d clay leaf box inspired by animal crossing Cat jar in clay
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The making of the glass IV bag! A blow mold made in plaster from a real IV bag which then hot glass is pressed into. #glassblowing #blowmold #hotglass #sculpture #disabledartist
January 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Uncontained, 2024.
Life Cast porcelain arm, steel cable, glass, found medical IV.
#disability #ceramics #art #disabledartist
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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About me:

I'm queer and nonbinary and use they/them pronouns.

I'm a disabled artist and advocate using sculpture to discuss my experiences.

I'm currently work on my MFA in ceramics and use other materials like glass, fiber, and found objects.

I have an adorable black cat named Inky.
An art piece with a porcelain arm and a blown glass IV bag with medical tubing stringing in between. Car and their partner Mason at an orchard with the sun shining Black cat face close to the camera laying on a bed.
January 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM