POLITICS & CLAY with Justin Rothshank @ Ferrin Contemporary
POLITICS & CLAY with Justin Rothshank
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KNOW JUSTICE: Brooke & Justin Rothshank
on view through November 13
This a two-person show focuses on American politics, the Supreme Court,
and presidential history. Brooke’s miniature watercolor portraits are
complemented by Justin’s decal-printed tableware.
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The 11th International Ceramic Competition, Mino Japan
technical tuesday: Alcohol reduction raku with Shawn Felts
must read: How to Incorporate Human Remains Into Your Dinner Party by Lauren Young
Justin Crowe’s latest work Nourish.
“Nourish” is a dinnerware series designed to infuse a sense of mortality into everyday moments. It’s
inspiration to celebrate, share, and live full while reflecting on our
very existence. The Nourish glaze was formulated using the remains over
200 people, each with their own previous lives and stories, distilled
into their elemental essence. The series is functional dinnerware for
daily use.”
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Find out more about Justin Crowe and his work here: www.justincrowestudio.com
True Nordic: How Scandinavia influenced design in Canada @ the Gardiner Museum
October 13, 2016 to January 8, 2017
Produced by the Gardiner Museum and curated by Rachel Gotlieb and Michael Prokopow
Exhibition design by Andrew Jones Design / Graphic design by q30 design inc.
than seven decades of Nordic aesthetic influence in Canadian design.
Examining the ways that modern Scandinavian design was introduced to
Canada and how its aesthetic principles and material forms were adopted
and adapted by Canadian artisans and designers, True Nordic will present a comprehensive, critical survey of Canadian furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and glassware.
Canada’s elite consumers and style-makers via museum and gallery
exhibitions, showrooms, small retail shops and articles and
advertisements in popular decorator magazines. However, it was the
dynamic influx of émigré craftspeople from Scandinavia who both affirmed
and vernacularized the aesthetic in Canada and who shaped profoundly
the country’s design and craft movement from the 1930s onward. What was
broadly known as “Danish modern” became synonymous with ideas about good
design, and “comfortable and gracious living.” Capitalizing on the
market opportunities presented, Canadian manufacturers added
Scandinavian design to their conservative repertoire of colonial and
historicist offerings and called these lines, Helsinki, Stanvanger,
Scanda and so on. The culminating section of the exhibition will ask why
Scandinavian and Nordic aesthetics continue to resonate with so many
contemporary Canadian designers and artisans at work today.
Petersen, Ernst and Alma Lorenzen, Janis Kravis, John Stene, Karen
Bulow, Kjeld and Erica Deichmann, Lotte Bostlund, Thor Hansen, Rudolph
Renzius, Sigrun Bulow-Hube, Ruth Gowdy McKinley, Niels Bendtsen, Sean
Place, Mjolk, Stephanie Forsythe, and Todd MacAllen.
Crystal Morey @ Modern Eden Gallery opens this week.
and force behind natural evolution, with the ability to alter life from a
single cell all the way up to entire ecosystems. Through these actions we
are leaving vulnerable species and habitats frantic, facing disruptions
and uncertain outcomes. In my work I explore these actions while also
creating an evocative and mysterious narrative that shows
our interdependence with the land and animals around us.
“Delicate Dependencies” is an exploration of
these ideas shown through plants and animals native to the western United
States. These creatures exist in habitats stressed or impacted by human
activity, leading them to an unclear future. They inhabit a space
where the relationship between humans, and the plants and animals around them,
are intricately and physically bound together, dependent on each other for
their long-term viability. Sculpted from the silken white earth of porcelain, I
see these delicate figures as containing power, as modern talismans and
precious telling objects. They see a heightened vision of human
influence in the natural world and are here to remind us of our current
trajectory and the delicate dependencies we all share.
Website: crystalmorey.com
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