Geoffrey Booras

Two white stands hold, respectively, a yellow rocky object and a blue rocky object

Rubbermaid Meteorites

A series of white dots with blue centers against a gray backdrop

Faience Geology

A rocky gray-colored canvas hangs on a wall, depicting purple oval shapes with pink centers

Islands of Pink

A grayish blue circle made up of off center concentric circles. Three pink stone-like shapes float on top.

Kaali Impact Crater

A round yellow and green gradient hosts an off-center purple circle with a dark stone in the middle.

Floating Impact Crater

Four squares compose a larger square. A raised "X" repeats across the squares in a grid. A white circle sits in the middle of the four squares.

White Dot

Biography

Geoff Booras is an artist working across experimental ceramics, painting, and sculpture. His work has been exhibited at Gildar Gallery (Denver), Haw Contemporary (Kansas City), and the Museum of Longing and Failure (Germany).

He has held residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Arctic Circle, the Wassaic Project, and the Banff Centre.

Booras holds degrees from Harvard University (Ed.M.), SUNY New Paltz (MFA), and Skidmore College (BA), and was an apprentice to the renowned ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu. He is a 2025–26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Iceland and Greece.

Artist statement

My practice is rooted in a desire to connect deeply with geological phenomena. Working in ceramic sculpture and painting, I explore patterns, symbols, gradients, and gritty textures to evoke humankind's relationship with nature, squeezed by the opposing pressures of scientific understanding and environmental degradation.

Shaping and transforming clay into ceramic art serves as substance, method, and metaphor for comprehending geophysical interactions. The resulting objects capture a moment of material transformation, inviting viewers to consider material rebirth on a personal level. I want my sculptures and paintings to act as portals, drawing observers into the murky, granular spaces of our bodies, the earth, and the cosmos.

At its core, my work expresses a personal and subjective longing to grasp the vastness of deep time and deep space. Through the act of making — sculpting my own rocks and recreating the Earth’s transformative heat within the kiln — I seek to know whether art let me in on the secrets of geology, bridging the tangible and the infinite.