• About us
  • Magazine
  • Submissions
  • Advertise
  • Contact
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
No Result
View All Result
Ceramics Now
Become a member
  • News
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Ceramic art
  • Articles
  • Interviews
  • Resources
    • Ceramics Now Weekly
    • Calendar of events 2024
    • Calendar of events 2023
    • Ceramics job board
    • Ceramic artists list
    • Pottery classes
Ceramics Now
  • News
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Ceramic art
  • Articles
  • Interviews
  • Resources
    • Ceramics Now Weekly
    • Calendar of events 2024
    • Calendar of events 2023
    • Ceramics job board
    • Ceramic artists list
    • Pottery classes
No Result
View All Result
Ceramics Now
Home Exhibitions

Pollen on a West Wind at Jason Jacques Gallery, New York

February 13, 2023
in Exhibitions

Pollen on a West Wind is on view at Jason Jacques Gallery, New York

Curated by Tony Marsh

February 9 – March 25, 2023

Jason Jacques Gallery is thrilled to present Pollen on a West Wind: a sweeping, broad-spectrum exhibition curated by artist, educator, and independent curator Tony Marsh.

Color, form, and experimentation take precedence; clay is treated as surface, as form, and as pure possibility— each artist’s oeuvre touches upon different aspects of ceramic history, as well as its ineffable present. On occasion, there are thumb-prints to be glimpsed. On other occasions, the colorful chemistry of glaze takes center stage. Sometimes, painterly prowess shines like a light. At others, sculpture stands at the forefront.

And yet, there is a common thread which runs through Pollen on a West Wind: most of the participating artists are known as painters or sculptors, very few have been formally trained in ceramics. They also have an institutional affiliation in common: all have spent time working as Resident Artists of the CCC, the Center for Contemporary Ceramics at California State University in Long Beach, as part of the Ceramic Arts Program of which Marsh has directed for over 25 years.

There are no thematic limitations to the scope of this show. While some vessels pose formal questions, others hit symbolic and emotional registers; while some wall-mounted works toe the line between painting and relief, others read in sculptural terms, projecting into space; some works deal with the banal, others with the particular. Figuration and abstraction exist in compliment to one another.

With equal parts tenacity and tenderness, many works are explorations of artists’ personal histories — though memory and nostalgia play just as much a role as does the present.

Painters paint on clay, sculptors sculpt with clay, and all of the sudden these ideas are no longer disparate. A monumental, wheel-thrown vessel is treated as a canvas; glaze and slip fall forward. A number of works are left, tantalizingly, unglazed. Others seem to have been thrown or hand-built for the express purpose of encouraging glaze to drip, pool, and flow in exquisite ways.

As evidenced by the liberal use of mixed media, clay is not confined to itself nor it’s own conventions. Repurposed and found materials— be they bricks, glass, hag stones, headphones, rope, fiber, fiberglass seating, fabric, or discarded clay fragments— feature prominently in this survey. The inclusion of foreign bodies in these ceramic works is as much a demonstration of skill as it is a way of story-telling, for objects may bear witness to one’s life or personal history in the same way that symbols can.

All said, the bent of this exhibition is very much grounded in the history of Los Angeles’ ceramics scene. “The West Coast is where contemporary American ceramics was born,” Marsh says. “This is the 2nd or 3rd wave in the lineage of West Coast ceramics and we’re pushing on forward.”

This exhibition features works by Alessandro Pessoli, Amy Bessone, Anna Sew Hoy, Bryan Burk, Nicki Green, Chris Miles, Chris Miller, Jeffry Mitchel, Jessica Hutchins, Kristen Morgin, Milena Muzquiz, Ramekon, Raven Halfmoon, Roger Herman, Ryan Flores, Tam Van Tran, Todd Yu Xiang and Tony Marsh.

Tony Marsh is a noted ceramicist whose artistic pursuit has focused on the “non-utilitarian ceramic vessel” for the last 30 years— his work may be spotted in many private and permanent museum collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Art and Design in New York, SFMOMA, The Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, The M Museum, Hong Kong, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, the Gardiner Museum of Art in Toronto and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

Contact
info@jasonjacques.com

Jason Jacques Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
United States

Photographs courtesy of Jason Jacques Gallery and the artists. Photographers: Grace Nkem, Marcin Staromiejski, and Maty Sall

Captions (images 14-22)

  • An arrangement of works by Nicki Green, Milena Muzquiz, Alessandro Pessoli, Chril Miles, Kristen Morgin, and Tam Van Tram.
  • An arrangement of works by Tam Van Tram, Jeffry Mitchel, Bryan Burk, Todd Yu Xiang, Amy Bessone, and Roger Herman.
  • An arrangement of works by Chris Miller, Jeffry Mitchel, Roger Herman, and Nicki Green.
  • An arrangement of works by Ramekon O’Arwisters, Ryan Flores, Nicki Green, and Amy Bessone.
  • An arrangement of works by Amy Bessone, Tony Marsh, and Ramekon O’Arwisters.
  • Three sculptures by Tam Van Tram.
  • An arrangement of works by Nicki Green, Milena Muzquiz, and Bryan Burk.
  • (Detail) Ryan Flores, Still Life of Soursop and Fruits, 2020, Glazed ceramic, variable dimensions.
  • An arrangement of works by Tam Van Tran, Raven Half Moon, and Todd Yu Xiang.
Tags: Alessandro PessoliAmy BessoneAnna Sew HoyBryan BurkChris MilesChris MillerJason Jacques GalleryJeffry MitchelJessica HutchinsKristen MorginMilena MuzquizNew YorkNicki GreenRamekonRaven HalfmoonRoger HermanRyan FloresTam Van TranTodd Yu XiangTony Marsh

Related Posts

Nathalie Campion ceramics at Boondael Chapel Art Center
Exhibitions

Nathalie Campion: Autofiction – Dans la peau de l’écorce at Boondael Chapel Art Center, Brussels

November 28, 2023
Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics at Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit
Exhibitions

Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics at Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit

November 27, 2023
Sahar Khoury, Jumana Manna, and Harold Mendez are on view at the Wexner Center for the Arts
Exhibitions

Sahar Khoury, Jumana Manna, and Harold Mendez at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

November 25, 2023
Sustainable Ceramics at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
Exhibitions

Sustainable Ceramics #1: Recycled, Repaired, Reactivated at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden

November 25, 2023

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Join the discussion

Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest LinkedIn
Ceramics Now

Ceramics Now is a leading independent art publication specialized in contemporary ceramics. Since 2010, we promote and document contemporary ceramic art and empower artists working with ceramics.

Pages

  • About us
  • Magazine
  • Submissions
  • Advertise
  • Contact

Subscribe to Ceramics Now Weekly

Join a fantastic community of over 15,000 readers who receive this premium newsletter dedicated to contemporary ceramics.

SIGN UP TODAY

© 2010-2023 Ceramics Now - Inspiring the next generation of ceramic artists.

  • News
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Ceramic art
  • Articles
  • Interviews
  • Resources
    • Ceramics Now Weekly
    • Calendar of events 2024
    • Calendar of events 2023
    • Ceramics job board
    • Ceramic artists list
    • Pottery classes
  • About us
    • Submissions
    • Advertise with us
    • Magazine
  • Contact
  • Become a member of Ceramics Now
No Result
View All Result

© 2010-2023 Ceramics Now - Inspiring the next generation of ceramic artists.

escort bayanescort bayan