by Carole Epp | Nov 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
From November 11th to December 18th 2011, Centre MATERIA will be inhabited by a fantastic people: « Les Amourois ». Emerging from the imagination of the experienced ceramist, France Fauteux, these likeable anthropomorphic and colourful characters become alive in a phantasmagorical story. More than a fairy tale, this story may be akin to an allegory on happiness. After having being presented in some exhibition places across the province of Quebec, among which, Montreal and Baie-St- Paul, this travelling exhibition will be stopping in Quebec City, where the artist lives and works.
“I dreamed of an imaginary country with neither conflict nor war, a place where harmony and happiness reign, a kingdom of beauty, where living things and nature are in balance.”
by Carole Epp | Nov 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Saturday, November 19, 2011 – Thursday, January 19, 2012
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 12-5 PM
A co-presentation with the Queens College Year of Turkey: Exploring Past, Present, Future
Curated by Queens College Professor Sin-ying Ho, the exhibition displays the art of contemporary ceramic artists inspired by Turkish culture and history. Ceramics is not only a material for sculpture, pottery, and architecture but also is a cultural material.
Gallery Website
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts located at 137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing, NY, 11354
by Carole Epp | Nov 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
Claire Curneen | 19 Nov – 8 January 2012
Claire Curneen is one of Britain’s foremost figurative ceramicists, renowned for the haunting, emotive porcelain figures that she has been making for over 10 years. Fascinated by the human body, she explores themes of human alienation, femininity and the combination of bodily flesh and spiritual existence. Her making technique, a kind of porcelain patchwork, results in figures that are covered in handprints and shallow lines like contours or scars. These naked figures have extraordinary presence, awkward and vulnerable yet also self-contained and inscrutable. ‘Daphne’. The subject draws on the story of Apollo and Daphne. In the painting by Antonio del Pollaiuolo the Greek God pursues Daphne, she is grabbed by Apollo, he persists in having her but she prays to the Gods to help her and she is turned into a tree, her arms shoot upwards and become strong branches which towers over Apollo. Curneen’s interpretation show the porcelain figure is in a state of change, the branches engulf her and they are topped with gold suggesting the delight in her fate.
Mission Gallery Gloucester Place Maritime Quarter Swansea SA1 1TY t 01792 652016 f 01792 652016 e [email protected] w missiongallery.co.uk
by Carole Epp | Nov 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hamada
A Pottery Lineage
Edwards Art Gallery
Holderness School
1879 Chapel Lane, Plymouth, N.H.
On Exhibit November 3 – December 10, 2011
Open: Mon. – Fri. 9am-5pm Sat 9am – 12p,
Closed November 21-28
In association with Pucker gallery
171 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
