movie day: Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio
Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio from SITE Santa Fe on Vimeo.
The Future of Traditional Pottery with Garth Clark
October 20, 2012 – 2 pm | UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Union,
2nd Floor, Rooms 223-224. Free.
2nd Floor, Rooms 223-224. Free.
Garth Clark will participate in a
panel discussion moderated by Andrew Glasgow (former executive director
of the American Craft Council). Other panelists will include Mark del
Vecchio (writer and gallerist), Mark Hewitt (potter), Matt Jones
(potter), and Jean Mclaughlin (executive director of the Penland School
of Craft). This event is hosted by UNC Asheville and the Center for
Craft Creativity & Design.
panel discussion moderated by Andrew Glasgow (former executive director
of the American Craft Council). Other panelists will include Mark del
Vecchio (writer and gallerist), Mark Hewitt (potter), Matt Jones
(potter), and Jean Mclaughlin (executive director of the Penland School
of Craft). This event is hosted by UNC Asheville and the Center for
Craft Creativity & Design.
Clark is considered by many to be one of the great contemporary
critics and writers in the field of ceramics. South African by birth,
he has lived in the US since the mid nineteen-seventies. He ran
galleries in LA and NYC with his partner Mark del Vecchio for thirty
years. He has been a prolific writer and advocate of ceramics in all
its forms, and has lectured all over the world.
Topics for Discussion:
• Recap of previous two events in Charlotte and Raleigh
• Education as it relates to makers moving to the region; educational opportunities here and elsewhere
• Philosophy of the craft of ceramics; what is special about ceramic traditions in WNC
• Current market issues in our region
From Matt Jones’ blog:
“The following events have been the result of a blog I started a year
ago challenging Garth Clark’s views presented in his provocative
address of 2008 titled “How Art Envy Killed the Craft Movement: An
Autopsy in Two Parts.” My primary point of course has been that at
least in the state of NC, the craft movement still lives perhaps even
thrives, particularly in the field of ceramics. Garth will visit to
learn more about our state’s ceramic heritage and inform us about his
view as a critic looking at the challenges that potters and ceramic
artists face in the twenty-first century. These programs will be lively
and informative for all who work in clay or appreciate and collect
pottery and ceramic art. “
Other Events in the Series:
October 16th at the Mint Museum in Charlotte
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Garth
will deliver the keynote lecture in a symposium called “Traditional
Pottery: Back to the Future,” presented by the Delhom Service League at
the Mint Museum’s Randolph Road location. After Garth’s lecture there
will be ample time for audience participation. The keynote address will
be preceded by shorter presentations by Matt Jones, Mark Hewitt and
Charlotte Brown Wainwright.
October 18th at the Gregg Museum in Raleigh
6:00-8:00PM
Garth
will deliver a lecture on the subject of traditional pottery, its
present and future, and host questions from the audience. This event
will be free of charge and held at the Gregg Museum at NC State
University, located at 2610 Cates Ave, 2nd floor Talley Student Center.
www.craftcreativitydesign.org/the-future-of-traditional-pottery-with-garth-clark-2/
Our Life in Art: Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Confessions of Two Pot Dealers
Photo: Jane Rosemont
Tuesday, August 14, 6 pm
Armory for the Arts Theater
Co-sponsored by Turner Carroll Gallery and Moss Outdoor
Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio are life and business partners
celebrating 33 years together and are considered the leading experts on
modern ceramics today. They founded the Garth Clark Gallery in Los
Angeles in 1981, and added New York in 1983. The gallery soon became the
leading space internationally for modern and contemporary ceramic art,
presenting over six hundred exhibitions. Together they also ran the
non-profit group Ceramic Arts Foundation that has published books,
organized exhibitions and held eight major international conferences of
ceramic art and criticism in Syracuse, Kansas City, London and
Amsterdam. The duo has received numerous awards from the Museum of Arts
and Design, New York, the Kansas City Art Institute and other
institutions. Clark, the author of over sixty books, was made a Fellow
of the Royal College of Art and also was the winner of 2005 Mather Award
for Distinguished Art Journalism from the College Art Association.
As gallerists, scholars, authors, and collectors, Garth Clark and
Mark Del Vecchio have helped shape the field of ceramics by expanding
notions of the medium’s possibilities. Their esteemed collection of
ceramics was given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2007, and is
the subject of a 500-page comprehensive catalogue published this year by
Yale University Press. Clark has just competed two new books, Mind Mud: Ai Weiwei’s Conceptual Ceramics and Lucio Fontana Ceramics.
The Armory Theater for the Arts in Santa Fe
www.sitesantafe.org/lecturesandevents/lecturesandeventsfr.html
A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
Karen Karnes, Flower Container, 1997.
Glazed stoneware, woodfired, 9 3/4 x 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Collection of Abel Weinrib.
JUNE 23 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
For more than 60 years, Karen Karnes has been at the forefront of the studio-pottery movement. Her artistic output is recognized for its understated, quietly poetic surfaces, and sublime biomorphic forms. From her dramatic salt-glazed pottery of the 1960s and ’70s to her most recent sculptural work, Karnes consistently has challenged herself and transformed expectations of the vessel. She remains one of the medium’s most influential working makers and a mentor to several generations of studio potters. “A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes,” her first major retrospective, will highlight 69 masterworks from this pioneering artist. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue edited by ceramist Mark Shapiro and ceramics historian Garth Clark.
A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes is supported in part by a grant from The Windgate Charitable Trust Foundation.
Exhibition-related programs: Open Docent Colloquium: Peter Held on Karen Karnes
Sat, June 23, 2012 – 10:30 AM
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
916.808.7000
[email protected]
www.crockerartmuseum.org
movie day: Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Interview with Garth Clark and Mark DelVecchio
Cowan’s is pleased to offer the Cowan’s | Clark | Del Vecchio semi-annual auction on June 1, 2012.
This sale will feature a group of rare, early pieces by Michele Oka
Doner as well as a fine selection of works by the late Ralph Bacerra.
Additionally, the sale will offer important pieces by Georges Jeanclos,
Michael Lucero, David Regan, and Akio Takamori.
More info here.
Take my Illustrative Pottery Workshop with the Ceramics School
about me
Follow me on Instagram
Carole’s Website
MAKEANDDO.CA
Web Hosting sponsored by:
