Opening Reception: First Friday, March 5 from 5 – 9 pm.
The public is cordially invited to attend, meet Clay Studio artists, discuss the work and partake in light refreshments.
PHILADELPHIA The Clay Studio, Philadelphia’s premier non-profit ceramic arts organization is pleased to present Clay + Fiber from February 19 through March 14, 2010. The exhibition will take place in the Reed Smith Gallery at The Clay Studio’s Old City home at 137-139 North Second Street. An Opening Reception will be held on First Friday, March 5th from 5 – 9 pm. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Clay + Fiber is a group exhibition that explores work that combines these two seemingly disparate media. Each artist represented in the exhibition, uses both materials in vastly different ways. Participating artists include:
Stephanie Lanter received her BA from Xavier University and her MFA from Ohio University, Athens, OH in 2002. Since that time, she has completed Residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation, Anderson Ranch, Mendocino Art Center and the Red Lodge Clay Center. Also a writer, her words have appeared in journals such as Kerameiki Techni and Ceramics: Art and Perception. In speaking about her work she states, “My sculptural combinations of clay, fiber, and found objects attempt to represent the graceful and humorous aspects of neurotic behavior, both within the self and in relationships.” Julie Tesser received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and has exhibited extensively since that time. Historically, Tesser’s work is large in scale but most recently has become quite intimate. Her two part pieces, one articulated in clay and the other in fiber celebrate both material and craft (all from her Embroidery Tile Series). Stitched two- dimensional portraits in fiber, sit next to their three-dimensional inspirations.
Janice Jakielski received her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2000 and her MFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2008. On exhibit will be mixed media objects from a series of work entitled, Addressing, Dressing and Redressing the Body; Objects for Oral, Aural and Optical Exploration.
Diem Chau is a native of Vietnam who emigrated with her family as refugees in 1986. Chau is a BFA graduate from Cornish College of the Arts and has received an Artist Trust GAP Grant and a PONCHO Artist-in-Residence Award. Chau combines common mediums and common means to create delicate vignettes of fleeting memory, gesture and form, resulting in works that combine egalitarian sensibility and minimalist restraint. Her work touches on the value of storytelling and myths and their ability to connect us to each other through cultural and humanistic similarities. Chau’s current work drifts into new territory by exploring the periphery of the narrative, moments forgotten and faded, or too brief to retain. Chau will be exhibiting a series of embroidered plates.
Founded in 1974, The Clay Studio is a non-profit educational arts organization dedicated to the promotion and development of the ceramic arts and the work of new clay artists. The Clay Studio supports the ceramic arts through its artist residencies, gallery, studio space, school, educational and outreach programs, and its permanent collection. The Clay Studio believes in promoting broad access to the ceramic arts; accordingly, it gears programs to all levels of interest and proficiency.
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