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| Five sculptures by New Orleans-based artist Marianne Desmarais were on display recently at Kirkland Arts Center (www.kirklandartscenter.org) in Kirkland, Washington, as part of a larger group show entitled “Traces,” which was curated by Julie Custer. Desmarais’ work, made of porcelain and other materials, demonstrates how varied her approaches can be, even while sticking to a basic geometric unit, the open-sided cube, as a sculptural building block. Placement, positioning, support and site are considered by the 35-year-old artist as she creates her assemblages of open-work porcelain cubes and, in one case, cubes within cubes. |
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| “Voices from the Pacific Rim” didn’t just speak about a culture or cultures; it resonated with multiple layers of meaning. The exhibition, which was on view recently at the Platt and Borstein Galleries at the University of Judaism (http://culture.uj.edu) in Bel Air, California, attracted a crowd of 150 people at its opening on an early Sunday afternoon in June. Guest curator Elaine Levin assembled the work of eight topflight ceramists (Patrick Shia Crabb, Keiko Fukazawa, Joanne Hayakawa, Mary Ichino, Yoochung Park Kim, Eleanor Komai, Porntip Sangvanich, Joan Takayama-Ogawa) pushing the boundaries of their art while exploring “the fusion between cultural background and heritage and the American experience.”
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| The 31st annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show (www.philamuseum.org) will take place November 8-11 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. This exhibition and sale of contemporary American craft includes 195 craft artists from the United States, selected from more than 1,380 applicants. Also, for the first time in the history of the Craft Show, a group of 26 artists from Canada will be exhibiting and selling their work. In addition, a new emerging artist category will showcase the work of several artists new to the field.
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| “River,” an exhibition of new works by London, England, artist Annie Turner, will be on display November 6-December 1 at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (www.rbsa.org.uk) in Birmingham, England. In addition to her ceramic forms, the exhibition will feature Turner’s photographs, which create context and a sense of place for the ceramic forms. Turner takes her inspiration from the ordinary workings of the River Deben in Suffolk, England, with its flowing channels, mud flats, sluice gates and nets. Feathers, fossilized fragments of shark’s teeth and salty tide lines are observed and recorded in Turner’s series of Meander Bowls and Eddy Spoons. Man-made objects noticed over the course of long walks and detailed investigations of the shorelines take sculptural form in this series.
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Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour
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The Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour takes place on October 6–7 along Highway 75, near Omaha, Nebraska. The studios of Liz Vercruysse and John Martelle in Herman, Nebraska, and John Dennison in Ponca Hills, Nebraska, serve as the north and south anchors of the tour. At each stop the resident potters will show their own work as well as that of guest artists. In addition to the open studios, wine tastings will be held at Too Far North Wines and Wine Tastings and the Florence Mill, an Omaha landmark. For a map and further details on the tour, visit www.lizvercruysse.com or www.dennisonpottery.com.
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| Twenty-five ceramics artists, representing a spectrum of styles, will be among the 190 contemporary craftspeople gathered at the 20th Annual Washington Craft Show. The show takes place November 30-December 1 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.craftsamericashows.com or call (203) 254-0486. |
| “The State of Clay,” a biennial juried exhibition of ceramic artwork, was recently on display at the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society (www.lexingtonma.org/LACS) in Lexington, Massachusetts. Hosted by the Ceramics Guild, the show began in 1996 to celebrate the wide spectrum of the most current and innovative work created by established and emerging ceramists from within Massachusetts, as well as those with former ties to the state. Juror Chris Gustin chose 83 pieces from a total of 288 entries submitted by 104 ceramists. Gustin picked work that he felt expressed a range of different materials, concepts and techniques. The resulting exhibition features a mix of contemporary sculpture, functional pottery, tile work, wall pieces, tableware and decorative work made by 49 artists.
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Domestic Deities: The Figurine in Art
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| “Domestic Deities: The Figurine in Art” was on display through August 3 at Garth Clark Gallery (www.garthclark.com) in New York City. The exhibition, which was the last public exhibition for the gallery, examined the niche genre within figurative sculpture today, exploring conflicting values in class and aesthetics.
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