Arny Nadler at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts

Gallery artist Arny Nadler’s sculpture “Adaptation (ossicones)” is included the 26^th San Angelo North American Ceramic Exhibition at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. April 17 – June 21, 2026. Nadler writes “I am struck by the endurance of living things and the sometimes galling absurdity of their mechanisms to adapt physically, of course, but also emotionally. As the son of an immigrant tool and die maker who was permanently paralyzed in a factory accident, my work investigates the body in a state of metamorphosis, struggling to adapt to challenges and hostilities originating within the body and also from an unpredictable and evolving environment. My work draws on human, animal, and botanical forms—awkwardly but heroically blending anatomical reasonings and reinventions. Hybrid and ambiguous, their appendages emerge more like clusters of mushrooms than articulate fingers. Some appear wrapped in loosely applied bandages, signaling a wound—something missing, something compensated for. A physical and emotional unraveling. More than human, they are mortal—struggling, vulnerable, mutable, and in an arrested state.” Read more at https://www.samfa.org/ceramic-competition