An exhibition of ceramics, jewellery, drawings, artists books and the launch of the above video. The exhibition is in celebration of the Chinese year of the dragon. For more information follow link to Eugene’s blog for an essay on his latest work written by Brenden Gray. Just below the title image is an article on his latest work that appeared in Art South Africa titled, The Ceramic Surface; A Virtual Crossover.
New York Deadline: May 15, 2012 PORTAGE HILL ART GALLERY PRESENTS:
Painters Who Pot / Potters Who Paint August 1st- August 26th, 2012 Opening August 5: 7-9 PM
Open to any artist who works both as a clay artist and painter. Throughout the history of art many painters have discovered the pleasure of working with clay. These have included many eminent artists from the past including Picasso, Vlaminck, Gauguin, Matisse, and Jackson Pollock. This is a contemporary National Juried Show of current artists who work in both of these mediums. Each accepted artist is expected to show both a clay work and a painting.
Clay EVV asks the clay artist to put big ideas into a small format. All work should be 75% clay, sculptural in nature, and no larger than 15” in any direction. Work may be pedestal, wall, or floor mounted.
Eligibiliy:
CLAY EVV is open to all artists over the age of 18 working in the United States.
Submissions must use 75% clay as the primary medium.
Submissions should be created in the last 3 years.
Clay sculpture should not be too fragile for shipping and/or installation, and should remain on display for the duration of the exhibit (June 8-July 6, 2012).
More information is included on the entry form link below.
Curated by Ben Bates. Fifty-five artists, 250 interpretations.
ARTcetera Gallery, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL February 24—April 17, 2012
A diverse showcase of functional and non-functional cups handcrafted by invited contemporary ceramic artists from around the United States, Canada and the UK.
Featuring new works by: Doug Jeck, Judy Fox, Cristina Cordova, Tip Toland, Arthur Gonzalez, Tom Bartel, Roxanne Jackson, Thaddeus Erdahl, Tanya Batura, and Jacob Foran
A Concurrent Independent Exhibition on the occasion of the 46th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.
The human head provides the obvious link between the work of 10 prominent ceramic sculptors featured in “A Show of Heads II” at the Seattle Design Center, in Seattle, WA, March 26th – March 31st, 2012. A more subtle unifying factor is the way in which these artists employ the head in their sculptures: essentially as a departure point for inquiry into thorny issues of human social identity, psychology and, ultimately, mortality. Where beauty arises in the exhibition it is tempered by frank acknowledgment of the liabilities inherent in the human condition. Where humor emerges, it tends to be black. Works by Tom Bartel, Tanya Batura, Roxanne Jackson and Tip Toland invoke the vulnerability of the physical body to aging, disease and arrest of such vital processes as hearing. Arthur Gonzales, Jacob Foran, and Thaddeus Erdahl reflect upon the psychological struggle fundamental to self-inquiry and the attempt to know other human beings. Cristina Cordova and Doug Jeck ponder the pathos of idealism undermined by reality, and Judy Fox insinuates the elusiveness of the inner peace promised by spiritual enlightenment. In this exhibition, curator Jacob Foran has succeeded in summarizing a deeply contemplative, psychologically introspective current in contemporary figural ceramic sculpture.
