The Infinite

Julia Haft-Candell's first book, The Infinite, commemorates her 2023 exhibition The Yet to Be, curated by Ciara Ennis at Pitzer College Art Galleries. In 2024, the show traveled to the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University as The Infinite Library. The new publication features an interview with Ennis; an essay by Anthony Graham, Senior Curator at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; and a poem by writer and translator Anna Moschovakis. The trio of texts appear along with artwork and installation images, as well as a hand-written and illustrated version of The Infinite Glossary. The Infinite welcomes the reader into Haft-Candell’s speculative universe of creation and play.  

Hardcover, 7.75in x 10in,160 pages, de Saisset Museum and Pitzer College Art Galleries, 2025

About the Artist

Julia Haft-Candell remixes ancient techniques to write new narratives, which change structures that seem set in stone. Each arm of her practice – artwork, teaching, and writing – offers alternatives to traditional models of categorization, communication, language, and education. In 2019, Haft-Candell founded The Infinite School, a new framework for ceramic education, which she runs out of her studio in Los Angeles. 

 Haft-Candell has received grants and residencies from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME; the Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY; and the California Community Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, among other national and international organizations. Her work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, among others. She has exhibited at the Miller Institute of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara, Inman Gallery in Houston, The Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles, and Candice Madey in New York.