Vessels Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue #71, Boston MA
Exhibit Dates: Friday, September 16 – Sunday, October 16, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, September 16, 6:00 – 8:30 PM
Curator’s Gallery Talk: Sunday, September 25th, 11:00 AM
This exclusive exhibit showcases the work of ten master ceramic artists who explore the interaction of flame, smoke and clay. Fire is their tool, inspiration and subject. No glaze here. This is naked clay. Wheel thrown vessels are painted with combustibles such as sawdust and straw to evoke landscapes; porcelain pots are printed with the images of the foliage in which they are fired – a technique born during a tornado and reminiscent of deposits in the formation of fossils; sculptural forms are seemingly decorated by graphic lines drawn by pen but iC fact created by carbon.
This primitive, softly fired, experimental, quiet yet exciting, edge of the ceramic spectrum draws influence from the ancients. Contemporary responses to this influence have never been exhibited as a theme before now. The art of six nationally known U.S. ceramicists will be shown alongside the work of English Jane Perryman, author of Naked Clay and Smoke Firing; Gabriele Koch, German born potter profiled by Tony Birks in a book by the same name; award-winning Austrian ceramist Roland Summer, showing for the first time in the U.S.; and Israeli ceramist and scientist Dr. Simcha Even-Chen.
Each artist chosen for this exhibition by curator and internationally exhibited artist Judith Motzkin sings a unique song of fire in this glazeless tradition… the mysterious swirl of fire… the prints of copper and salt … soft smoky clouds… sharp geometric patterns …and much more.
Participating Artists: Susan Elena Esquivel (US), Simcha Even Chen (Israel), Vicki Hardin (US), Gabriele Koch (England), Dick Lehman (US), Judith Motzkin (US), Irina Okula (US), Jane Perryman (England), Roland Summer (Austria), Pao-Fei Yang (US)
Curator: Judith Motzkin
Esquivel, Okula, Yang and Motzkin are expected to attend the opening reception, offering guests an opportunity for personal interaction. Individual artists will also be in the gallery during the South End Open Studios (September 17-18).
Gallery Talk: Curator Judith Motzkin will speak about the show on Sunday, September 25th at 11:00 am
Associated Workshop:
“The Color of Fire,” weekend workshop with Judith Motzkin, September 24-25, Mass College of Art and Design, Continuing Education http://pce.massart.edu/courses/fall/ceramics/index.shtml
images right to left: Irina Okula, Gabriele Koch, Vicki Hardin, Susan Elena Esquivel, Jane Perryman, Dr. Simcha Even-Chen, Judith Motzkin, Dick Lehman, Pao-Fei Yang and Roland Summer.
For more information on this exhibition visit: http://vesselsgallery.com/
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