by Carole Epp | Oct 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
• Phoebe Cummings, Benjamin DeMott, Janet Macpherson, Meghan Smythe. Curator: Linda Swanson •
Vernissage : Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 6 pm
Exhibition : October 28 to November 26
Artists and Curator Exchange: Friday, October 28 at 7 pm
Épisode is curated by invited artist/curator Linda Swanson.
The exhibition features four artists whose works speak not only to
excellence and innovation in ceramics, but to its relevance as a
discipline that allows for a specifically corporeal, embodied
articulation of contemporary human experience. Swanson’s choice of
artists — Phoebe Cummings (Stafford, UK), Benjamin DeMott (Chicago,
U.S.), Janet Macpherson (Toronto, Canada) and Meghan Smythe (Los
Angeles, U.S.) — has resulted in an inspiring, materially seductive
exhibition. Indeed, there is something collectively subversive about
their work – subversive in the sense of undermining staid narratives,
restrictive tropes, or assumptions about our perceived reality. Each
artist recognizes the historical heritage of ceramics, yet offers a
highly original and imaginatively provocative vision. Épisode is the second of five biennales taking place between 2014 and 2022.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 12 pm to 6 pm; Saturday 12 pm to 5 pm
[email protected]
www.visualartscentre.ca/mcclure-gallery/exhibitions/current-exhibition/
by Carole Epp | Oct 21, 2016 | call for entry, emerging artist, job posting, monday morning eye candy, movie day, residency opportunity, technical tuesday
September 15 and 16, 2017
Burlington and Toronto
The
Art Gallery of Burlington in collaboration with Craft Ontario is
organizing the first Canadian Craft Biennial Conference to be held
September 15 and 16, 2017 in Burlington and Toronto, Ontario.
There
are eleven sessions covering a variety of themes and approaches. To
submit a proposal to a session, please send an abstract (250 words) with
your contact information, a short biography (100 words) to the convener
of the session you would like to join by 30 November 2016. The full description for each session can be found at canadiancraftbiennial.ca
Regular
sessions will include four (4) presentations of twenty (20) minutes
each followed by a question period. Number of Pecha Kucha presentations
in session five is at the discretion of the conveners. All sessions are 1
hour 45 minutes in length.
1. Indigenous Craft Today: Tradition, Innovation, Action
Convener: Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, Independent Scholar
Email: [email protected]
2. Craft and Wilderness: Combatting Territorial Amnesia
Convener: Amanda Shore
Email: [email protected]
3. Somewhere Between Folklore, Modernity and Utopia: Expo’67 and the development of Fine Crafts and Métiers d’art in Canada
Convener: Bruno Andrus
Email: [email protected]
Note: Bilingual Session; Propositions in French and English are welcome.
4. Decolonizing Craft: contemporary craft, race, and decolonial practice in Canada
Conveners: Anthea Black, OCAD University & Nicole Burisch, Independent critic/curator
Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
5. The Openness of Craft: Complexity in Current Practices
Convener: Ruth Chambers, University of Regina
Email: [email protected]
6. Identity, Craft / Métiers d’art and Marketing
Convener: Susan Surette, PhD, NSCAD University and Concordia University
Email: [email protected]
Note: Bilingual Session; Propositions in French and English are welcome.
7. Round-Table Session Title: Making Sense: Exploring Creative Methodologies
Convener: Julie Hollenbach PhD Candidate, Department of Art (Art History), Queen’s University.
Email: [email protected]
8. Craft and Public Art
Conveners:
Kathy Kranias, PhD Student, Humanities Department, York University, and
Lera Kotsyuba, Research Assistant Intern, Ontario Heritage Trust
Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
9. Making Education: The Changing Nature of Teaching Craft
Convener: Dorie Millerson, Assistant Professor, Chair, Material Art & Design, OCAD University
Email: [email protected]
10. Craft’s Collaborations
Convener: Mireille Perron, Alberta College of Art + Design
Email: [email protected]
11. The digital ties that bind: Practice-lead research in craft
Convener: Stephen Bottomley, Senior lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art/ University of Edinburgh
Email: [email protected]
The full description for each session can be found at canadiancraftbiennial.ca
by Carole Epp | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Curated by Phil Rogers
Bandana Pottery, USA
Frank Boyden, USA
Bruce Cochrane, CANADA
Nic Collins, UK
Josh DeWeese, USA
Jeff Diehl, USA
Doug Fitch, UK & SCOTLAND
Hannah McAndrew Fitch, SCOTLAND
Anne Mette Hjortshøj, DENMARK
Shinsuke Iwami, JAPAN
Lee Kang-Hyo, KOREA
Lucien Koonce, USA
Ken Matsuzaki, JAPAN
Jan McKeachie Johnston, USA
Phil Rogers, WALES
Tim Rowan, USA
Akira Satake, USA
by Carole Epp | Oct 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
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| Trevor King |
October
22 – November 19, 2016
Opening
Reception: Saturday, October 22, 6 – 9 PM
Hours:
Saturday 12 – 6 PM and Wednesday 5 – 8 PM
Location:
47-21 35th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101
Sculpture Space NYC Projects is
pleased to present The Pretty Things Are
Going To Hell, a group exhibition featuring recent sculptural ceramics by
five New York-based artists: Veronica Frenning, Trevor King, Toshiaki Noda,
Sang Joon Park, and Patrice Renee Washington.
The
Pretty Things Are Going To Hell honors the idea of a non-utilitarian,
non-traditional vision and experimental approach toward clay. The common
denominator of this show is that each artist in his or her own particular way
explore the simplicity and anomalies that arise from the process, and rethink
the aesthetic values, and ideals of beauty and perfection.
Veronica Frenning works
organically, shaping clay into found objects and presenting these finds as
specimens. Frenning’s pieces blur the lines between traces of industry,
weathered manmade remnants and fragments of nature.
Trevor King’s Aluminum series
articulates the mysterious inner spaces of ceramic vessels. The works are made
in a series of steps that involve throwing a clay vessel and then using the
thrown pot as the vehicle to cast its own shape. A wax form made of
the pot’s inside is then cast in aluminum, capturing evidence of throw lines,
or fingerprints made from pushing clay up as it spins on the wheel. The
resulting objects appear as materials in flux – melting, pouring, drying, and
dissolving.
Toshiaki Noda’s works are
created on the wheel and altered so that the clay reveals its responses to the
gesture marks left by Noda’s hands. The exaggerated surfaces and entire shapes
are formed while manipulating the clay’s centrifugal force into Noda’s
aesthetic form.
Sang Joon Park has the
foundations of a trained traditional Korean potter. Through the
repetition of throwing clay vessels, Sang Joon takes collectively thousands of
bowls and transforms them into sculptural towers.
Patrice Renee Washington
creates relationships within the “realm of cultural space,” setting
up scenarios between objects that are seemingly functional whilst addressing
concepts of the “primitive and modes of convenience.”
Sculpture Space NYC is a
ceramics and sculpture center designed to foster creativity, concept and
collaboration. SSNYC’s intent is to be a resource for artists, providing space,
equipment, advanced education and opportunities for exhibitions and
residencies. New York City based artists Andrew Kennedy and Magda Dejose founded
SSNYC in 2014.
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| Patrice Renee Washington |
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| Sang Joon Park |
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| Toshiaki Noda |
For more information, please contact
Sculpture Space NYC / Projects at 718-806-1709 or
[email protected]
