emerging artist: Zachary Wollert

by | Jan 8, 2017 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

 

 

“Comprised of tableware, vessels, and wheel-thrown
sculpture my ceramic work is built upon recurring forms and surfaces
produced from my throwing technique.  My ceramics are influenced by the
Arts and Crafts movement to make simply designed hand-made objects with
minimal decoration.  This influence has brought me to a place in my work
where I intently focus my making on form and surface.  Form and surface
are the most important elements of my work because they are the
greatest expression of my skill as a potter.  With form and surface I
want to draw attention to the liveliness of wheel-thrown ceramics.  It
is important that the decorative elements are unmistakably left by the
hand.  Ultimately, I want my ceramic work to embody the personable
qualities I possess: proud… strong…  thoughtful… ”

movie day: The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art

by | Dec 28, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday

Over the last 25 years, Linda Leonard Schlenger has amassed one of the
most important collections of contemporary ceramics in the country. This
exhibition features over 80 objects from the Schlenger collection by
leading 20th-century ceramicists—including John Mason, Jim Melchert,
Kenneth Price, Lucie Rie, and Peter Voulkos—alongside works in other
media from the Yale University Art Gallery’s permanent collection by
artists such as Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, Mark
Rothko, and Edward Ruscha. Although critically lauded within the
studio-craft movement, works by these ceramicists are only now coming to
be recognized as integral to the wider field of contemporary art. By
interspersing these exceptional examples of the medium with other
objects from this period, including painting, sculpture, and works on
paper, this exhibition aims to reexamine the position of postwar ceramic
sculpture within the context of contemporary art, highlighting the
formal, historical, and theoretical affinities among the works on view.