ceramics symposium and souvenirs from the future @ Lawrence Arts Center

by | Oct 7, 2014 | Uncategorized

Every two years, the Lawrence Arts Center hosts six nationally
recognized ceramicists in a symposium on topics central to the
contemporary ceramics art world. This rare opportunity offers a chance
to interact and observe ceramic artists working in the top of the field.
Over the course of two days, this select group of artists are active in
studios at the Lawrence Arts Center demonstrating sculpting processes,
wheel throwing, surface decoration and glazing, representing a diverse
range of techniques and approaches to ceramic art.  The six artists are
paired up in three studios at the Arts Center, to demonstrate their
techniques and encourage dialogue with the audience. Attendees are
encouraged to visit each of the three studios throughout the two day
symposium on Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 from 9:30am to
4:30pm.


This years artists are:

Sunshine Cobb
Gerit Grimm

Chris Gustin

Akio Takamori
Patti Warashina
Stan Welsh

http://lawrenceartscenter.org/ceramics-symposium/

souvenirs from the future

A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS
Curated by Ben Ahlvers
October 10 – November 22
RECEPTION OCTOBER 10 | 7 to 9pm INSIGHT
Art Talk with Ben Ahlvers OCTOBER 23 | 7pm

This group exhibition explores juxtapositions whether they be visual
or conceptual as well as the connections that can be formed in the
context of a group exhibition. The works included in this exhibit looks
to the future in order to acknowledge the past. They make connections
and blur definitions of ceramic materials, processes. The exhibit
delectably and mysteriously explores tensions between nature and the
synthetic, the hand and the machine, history and the future. This
exhibit brings together nearly 40 artists working in North America, each
working with ceramic material and processes.

Adam Shiverdecker   Adam Welch   Amanda Salov   Angela Carbone   Brett Kern  
Brian Harper   Carole Epp   Colleen Toledano   David Bogus   Elenor Wilson  
Eric Mirabito   Ian F. Thomas   Israel Davis   Jess Riva Cooper   Joe Pintz 
John Zimmerman   Jon McMillan   Kala SteinKate MacDowell   Kelly Schnorr  
Kyle Bauer   Kyungmin Park   Linda Lopez   Lindsay Pichaske   Matt Ziemke  
Michaelene Walsh   Molly Ann Bishop   Rain Harris   Roberto Lugo   Sarah Gross
Scott Bennett   Shalene Valenzuela   Stephanie Craig   Tim Berg/Rebekah Myers  
Tim Rowan   Valerie Zimany
http://lawrenceartscenter.org/souvenirs/

Tisdale Figurative Invitational @ Red Lodge Clay Center

by | Mar 4, 2013 | Uncategorized

When I saw this I just about lost my mind and jumped in the car and drove straight there to see it. Then I remembered how far away I am and that we’re expecting a winter storm today….maybe another day. Thank goodness all the images are online.

Patti Warashina

Claire Curneen

Janis Mars Wunderlich

curatorial statement for Tisdale Figurative Invitational


“James Tisdale is a Resident Artist and Ceramic Education Coordinator at the Austin Museum of Art. His position with AMOA has allowed him to participate in several residency programs in the US and across the globe, even teaching at the International Ceramic Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary. His allegorical, biographically inspired figures have been exhibited internationally and most recently his work was featured at SOFA Chicago. Red Lodge Clay Center is proud to welcome Tisdale back to Montana after twenty years. We are also excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with him on this exhibition. “Silhouettes” presents an intimate, yet diverse display of contemporary, figurative ceramic sculpture.

The figure has had a pretty interesting run throughout the history of art. More than once this icon has been declared “DEAD”, only to rise again thanks to the undeniable hubris of the human condition. We will always grapple with ourselves and so we will always have need to view ourselves through the varied, external, interpretive lens of the maker. Some of the artists in the exhibit honor the classical rendering of the figure to explore the human condition, while others abstract surface and form to exploit psychological underpinnings or to celebrate frozen moment narratives. Humor, history, mythology, and anthropomorphism inform these objects in a melange that is only possible in modernity. It’s easy to forget that the salon once vilified deviations from the representational figure. Now such deviations are not only accepted, they are the exemplar. Debates between protectors of tradition and those reaching for innovation are applicable to many fields and it is an opportunity to examine our own boundaries.

Humanity has primordial ties with the material of ceramics and a seemingly primordial impulse to recreate our likeness in the plastic mud. The figure serves as human proxy and as divine proxy. The figure functions as icon and catharsis. It is a way for us to try catching lightening in a bottle. The collective “we” can redefine ourselves through the figure. Through the figure we can be immortal. “

Artists in the show: Sunkoo Yuh, Kensuke Yamada, Janis Mars Wunderlich, Paige Wright, Patti Warashina, James Tisdale, Zachary Tate, Richard Swanson, Nan Smith, Esther Shimazu, Deborah Rogers, Gabriel Parque, Richard Nickel, Meg Murch, Melissa Mencini, Tammy Marinuzzi, Beth Lo, Clayton Keyes, Margaret Keelan, Magdalene Gluszek, Debra Fritts, Diana Farfan, Thaddeus Erdahl, Claire Curneen, Andrea Keys Connell, Tom Bartel, Wesley Anderegg, Pavel Amromin

Show runs until April 26th
Red Lodge, MT 59068 Ph. 406.446.3993
redlodgeclaycenter.com/lists.php?eid=181&type=exhibit