Ellen Schön: Vessel Variations (x3) / Vessels Gallery, Boston
September 7 – October 7, 2012
Opening Reception: September 7, 5.30 – 8.30 pm.
Vessels Gallery is pleased to announce Vessel Variations (x3), an exhibit of the most recent ceramic explorations of Ellen Schön. This clay artist and teacher does not see vessels as mere shapes, but rather as metaphors for the human form –the suggestions of “a neck, a shoulder, a belly, a foot”, “the evocation of a human gesture here or stance there”.
Wellspring or Womb, Schön’s first collection, evokes the contours of the womb – both fertile and barren, alive and fading.
Her second group of vessels conjures up the long, sinewy necks of the Greek Cycladic Idols and the shallow patterned cuts of the African Yoruba head sculptures. No simple Bottlesthese, but once again, shapes and designs which reference the human form.
And finally her third collection: The Planet Series, is a group of broad-bellied forms with a spinning sense of movement.
The clay directs me as I direct it. We are in a reciprocal relationship. Ellen Schön
Ellen Schön is an adjunct faculty member at the Art Institute of Boston. She has participated in art symposia throughout the world, and has been an active member in ceramic residencies in Malaysia, Germany, Finland, Croatia and most recently in Hungary. Her passionate interest in international artistic collaboration has led to her participation in the “Transcultural Exchange Tile Project” through which her students have created ceramic tiles, which have been included in wall installations in China and India.
South End Open Studios: September 15th and 16th, 11.00 am – 6.00 pm.
Artist Slide Lecture: September 15th, 2.00 pm.
Closing First Friday: October 5th, 5.30 – 8.30 pm.
CONTACT
Bobbie Tunnard
Tel. (617) 246-1950
rbt@vesselsgallery.com
Vessels Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue #71
Boston MA 02118
United States
www.vesselsgallery.com
Above: Ellen Schön, Nargilla Pod, 16.5”h x 20” x 20”, 2012.
