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By Rebecca Lewin Artists working with ceramics constantly face forking paths. To a certain degree, the decisions that they make shape the construction, the form and the surface of the objects they produce, but regardless of the direction taken, an element of uncertainty, even a lack of control, is their constant companion. Ceramics offer the possibility of combining materials and...

By Kamilė Pirštelytė No matter what you read and where you travel, what cultures, arts and mythologies you are interested in, stone and ceramics are at the source of all rivers. Like stone but easier to shape, ceramics are created from earth, water, air, and fire, yet none of these elements can completely destroy it. It has been hidden under...

By Jennifer Zwilling Kristina Riska’s sculptures are deceptively simple. From across the room, the large, undulating vessel forms beckon the viewer with familiarity. As you approach, you feel a resonance with your own body. If we think of ourselves as part of the earth, there is a real connection between our bodies and these person-sized vessels. We are drawn forward...

By Natalie Baerselman le Gros Christie Brown’s figures teeter on the foggy intersection between art and craft. Very clearly sculptural but informed by a deep history of clay. Upon graduating with a diploma in Studio Pottery at Harrow in the early 1980s, Brown found her work without an obvious niche. Alongside her studies in clay, Brown had taken up life...

From the Flip-Side of the Coin. A review of Masaomi Yasunaga's exhibition at Lisson Gallery By Doug Navarra “Unique” is the term that comes to mind when looking at the work of 38-year-old Yasaomi Yasunaga. Unique because nothing in the ceramic world resembles this kind of hybrid, experimental form and approach. In fact, we are told at the outset that...

By Lilianne Milgrom Irit Ovadia Rosenberg would be the first to tell you that she never imagined establishing a ceramic practice amongst the towering pines of New York State’s Catskills mountains, far from the madding crowd of her native New York City. Nestled between the conifers and surrounded by wild fern, her studio barn and cottage gallery provide a serene...

By Theo Harper Abstract By holding on to the idea of ‘origin’, understood in my research as hand-printing clay, I aim to rethink our interactions with technology and automated making. During the past three years, I have been exploring the relationship between hand-coiling clay and 3D printing clay. Hand-printing clay has always been at the origin of my work, it...

By Odette Lopez Contemporary art is a product of art history, a transformation and utilization of the vast repository of images and ideas that came before it. It is a myth that the ancient world and contemporary art have relatively nothing to do with each other. On the contrary, ancient artworks are the foundation of our modern visual and cultural...

Fawn Krieger's recent series of sculptural works are inherently modular; their bounds are only limited by the decision to pause and ultimately stop. The nebulous structures seem to expand endlessly in multiple directions. Despite this organic fluidity and perceived extension, these sculptures are equivocal and ruminative in Rebus Principle at SE Cooper Contemporary in Portland, Oregon, and Mouth of the...

Ceramics takes center stage at Collect 2022, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design Over thirty galleries (32 out of 40) will show ceramic works at Collect 2022, making ceramics the best-represented discipline at this year's fair. Founded in 2004 by the Crafts Council, Collect has established itself as the leading art fair for craft and has been...

By Graciela Olio, Anabel González Alonso, and Claudia Toro. We consider contemporary ceramics to be part of the concept of expanded ceramics, which is a concept that amplifies and expands its subject area and thus decolonizes itself from the historical tradition that implies the training from and within the ceramic trade as the ceramist’s sole track. This activity also refers...

An article about Christa Zeitlhofer's exhibition "On the vulnerability of the surface", Galateea Gallery, Bucharest, September 1-30, 2021.Curator: Cristina Popescu Russu. Expert reviewer: Monika PădureţTranslation: Flavia Iustina BosnariArticle by Constantin Hostiuc It may seem a truism to conceive or think of works of art as “singular objects”. For, not only by definition but also de facto, the author-artist cannot create...

Are Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) the newest collectible? Yes, no, maybe? Depending on who you ask, you will get a different answer. One exhibition, New Ownership at Eutectic Gallery, a contemporary ceramics gallery and studio in Portland, Oregon, challenges the concept of how we can collect ceramics, with NFTs taking center stage. How would this recently-developed blockchain/financial technology be incorporated alongside physical...

A presentation about the 2021 Ceramics & Glass bachelor's class at Konstfack, Stockholm Artists: Hanna Hjalmarsson, Christian Håkansson, Cornelia Dahlin, Emma Nygård Stare, Isabel Tegström, Johanna Bylén, Mio Elias Halvarsson, Tilde Hansen, Olle Wärme, Malin Pierre Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in...

Ceramic art at Liste Art Fair, 2021 Ceramic art is more and more present at contemporary art fairs around the world. One example is Liste Art Fair, taking place between September 20-16, 2021, in Basel, Switzerland. Under the premise of promoting young international art, the Liste Committee selected 81 galleries from 33 countries to participate at the fair. Their artists...

By Melinda Farkasdy In the Summer of 2020, an extraordinary ceramics exhibition took place at the FISE Gallery in BudapestCriminal Craft alkotói közösség kiállítása (Exhibition of Criminal Craft community – translated by author). 21 July – 7 August 2020. Budapest, FISE Gallery.. The event was the debut of a recently formed community of young Hungarian ceramicists, Criminal CraftMembers: FARKAS, Gabriella...

Spencer Wells, a New York City-based photographer, filmmaker and writer, visited and photographed Jono Pandolfi's ceramics studio a few months ago. This photography essay is an incursion into a very beautiful and functional studio located across the Hudson River in Union City, New Jersey. Text by Spencer Wells Walking into the Pandolfi studio felt like walking into a familiar family...

Article by Erez Maayan Five Formica tables, the kind found in almost every (Israeli) kitchen through the mid-1980s, on top of which are what appear to be fossilized meals. Twenty-one porcelain dishes filled with gastromorphic (food-resembling) matter that is completely and undeniably inedible while not completely identifiable. Platters crammed with what could resemble rotten patties with congealed gravy, putrid porridge...

By Laetitia Wilson Once in a while a ceramics exhibition reaches breathtaking proportions by defying expectations and ambitiously expanding the medium. Here and Now 14 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery was such an exhibition. It showcased new works from 12 Western Australian artists and situated ceramics as a strong medium looking outward as ever greater than the insular cottage...

By Rachel Dickson It is no coincidence that we refer to the ‘making’ of a drawing. To draw is to make and to make is to draw. To draw on skills, experience, material qualities, the past, a glimpse of the future and the influence of others. Others who have taught us, told us their stories, showed us their secrets and...