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By Doug Navarra The first thing I thought about when I first saw works by Jennifer McCandless were active notions of persona and personality. What makes her exhibition Run Amok at A.I.R. Gallery different is this very fact—the show is concept-based—and not center-staged upon materiality. This exhibition is composed primarily of figural works, and if they are not straight-out renderings...

Eva Pelechová: Selected works, 2015-2021 Slow Down Meaning - An oblique discussion of the art of Eva Pelechová By Kryštof Hejný Over the past 10+ years, Czech ceramicist and designer Eva Pelechová has honed two visually distinct modes of expression. Despite their difference, they both develop a cloud of meaning that finds its edge in the eye of the beholder....

Yuliya Makliuk, a ceramic artist from Ukraine, found herself at the intersection of war and environmental responsibility. While power outages darkened studios and conflict raged, she illuminated a path to sustainable pottery, challenging perceptions and paving the way for a greener future in ceramic art. This is her story of innovation, hope, and a reimagining of ceramic practice. Hello, everyone!...

By Emma S. Ahmad Every art collection has a beginning. A first piece. A story. Developing a collection does not simply involve amassing singular pieces of art that attract your gaze. It entails creating a meaningful grouping of works that mesh together in such a way that expands the potential of each individual work, fabricating something new entirely. Private art...

Daphne Corregan and Gilles Suffren present Revealing the Earth. Histoires de céramique at Musée du Vieil-Aix, Aix-en-Provence and Tuilerie Bossy, Gardanne, France June 16 - November 5, 2023 The exhibition at Tuilerie Bossy will close on September 16, 2023 Nourishing a unique history with provencal ceramics, the Museum du Vieil-Aix and La Tuilerie Bossy (Gardanne) wished to associate to honor...

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...