Malcolm Mobutu Smith: Mutations at Luise Ross Gallery, New York
April 18 - May 30, 2015

From an early interest in art and continuing with obtaining an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Malcolm Mobutu Smith’s passion for sculpture has a distinct mixture of elegance and whimsy, turning the utilitarian into the sublime.

In Smith’s first exhibition at Luise Ross Gallery in New York, the vessel form is a starting point to create the sculpture, and at the same time transcends its functional uses.

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Rupert Spira: A Life in Ceramics at Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford
May 9 - June 14, 2015

Rupert Spira holds a unique place in the development of contemporary ceramics. This major retrospective brings together outstanding pieces from every stage of Spira’s career, largely drawn from his own collection.

James Fordham, Director of Oxford Ceramics, says, “We are delighted to be staging this important exhibition, which charts the evolution of Rupert Spira’s work from his early tableware to his superb poem bowls - arguably the culmination of his career as a ceramic artist.

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A Moment in Time: Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko at Joan B Mirviss, New York
April 27 - May 29, 2015

Joan B Mirviss LTD is thrilled to present the first US joint-exhibition of critically acclaimed clay artists Akiyama Yō and Kitamura Junko. Featuring twenty dynamic works ranging from delicately inlaid vessels to large-scale sculptural abstractions, this important exhibition highlights the decidedly different yet equally compelling styles of the celebrated Kyoto-based artistic couple. This showing explores each artist’s response to the primary and tactile connotations of clay as a medium and examine their mutual considerations on destruction, renewal and metamorphosis.

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Kristina Riska: New Work at Hostler Burrows, New York
May 7 - June 5, 2015

Hostler Burrows is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the artist Kristina Riska. For her first solo show in the United States, nearly a dozen new pieces are on display, including both Riska’s large scale vessels and smaller ceramic objets d'art.

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Francesco Ardini: Stige at Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome
April 28 - July 4, 2015

Federica Schiavo Gallery is delighted to present Stige, Francesco Ardini’s first solo show at the gallery.

“I looked at its white mantle flowing upon the flat banks as I moulded it.
I heard its voice, a slow melody, eternal. Silent, like time itself.
This song, enchanted me.”

The work of Francesco Ardini has always been punctuated by a rich metamorphic and mythological theme which becomes, in his first solo exhibition in Rome, a revaluation on the origins of his actions as an artist.

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The third issue of Ceramics Now Magazine is out in June 2015, after a two-year hiatus.

We have put a lot of work into it in the past eight months, and we are confident that the result will be exceptional. The issue features 34 in-depth interviews with world-renowned and emerging artists and includes articles by Rachel Dickson, Lucy Gent, Erez Mayaan, Lilianne Milgrom, Debra Sloan, and Laetitia Wilson.

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Carol Gouthro and Jim Kraft / Gallery IMA, Seattle
March 5-28, 2015

Gallery IMA is pleased to showcase artwork by Pacific Northwest artists Carol Gouthro and Jim Kraft in an exploration of ceramics as a medium of vessels. An introduction of the Aurlia series of sculptures by artist Carol Gouthro, she evokes allusions of botanical illustrations through the incorporation of vibrant colors and a hybrid of biological forms.

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Artigas, Chapallaz, de Montmollin: Bards of Enamels / Musée Ariana, Geneva
February 4 - May 31, 2015

Combining in a single exhibition works by the Catalan Josep Llorens Artigas (1892-1980), the Swiss ceramists Édouard Chapallaz (b.1921) and Brother Daniel de Montmollin (b.1921) – active within the Taizé religious community in Burgundy – is not purely random. These three artists, who have each in their own way left their mark on contemporary European ceramics, have continuously enhanced their understanding of enamels throughout their careers, knowledge that all three have been keen to pass on through their teaching, publications and more generally by their openness and their availability towards colleagues.

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Tsubo: The Art of The Vessel / Joan B Mirviss, New York
March 13 - April 24, 2015

With its unparalleled and unbroken history in ceramics, Japan continues to lead the world in the important field of contemporary clay art. In tribute to this accomplishment, Joan B. Mirviss is proud to present an important exhibition,Tsubo: The Art of the Vessel, organized in collaboration with the leading modern ceramic dealer in Japan, Shibuya Kuradatoen Co., LTD and timed to open for the start of 2015 Asia Week New York. This seminal exhibition focuses on the classical concept of the tsubo, literally, the storage jar, chronicling its uninterrupted history from ancient to modern times, and examining its role in shaping the greater ceramic narrative of Japan and clay art the world over.

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Cynthia Lahti: Battle / PDX Contemporary Art, Portland
March 3-28, 2015

Artist’s Reception: Wednesday, March 4th, at 5:30 pm.

With Battle, Lahti arrives at a place in her work where two long-standing and concurrent practices of collage and ceramic sculpture have come together with tremendous effect and power.

The pieces in the exhibition continue the work Lahti began in 2012 at the Zentrum für Keramik, Berlin where she started to incorporate found images on paper directly into the bodies of her figurative ceramics. The introduction of the paper adds an element of fragility, while also referring to art historical uses of found objects and materials by artists associated with Dada and Surrealism. Equally, the ceramic elements bear their own references to ceramic traditions in the history of art and craft.

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