Porcelain Reconsidered is on view at Vessels + Sticks, Toronto
May 13 – June 20, 2026
Porcelain Reconsidered brings together contemporary artists working with porcelain in ways that move beyond its traditional associations with delicacy, purity, and perfection.
Shaped over time by technical innovation, cultural exchange, and shifting ideas of refinement, porcelain carries a complex history. To work with it today is to work in relation to that history. Rather than reinforcing inherited perceptions, the works presented expand the material’s possibilities structurally, conceptually, and materially.
Across the exhibition, porcelain becomes a site of tension: between fragility and strength, control and unpredictability, tradition and experimentation.
What emerges is not a rejection of the material’s past, but a repositioning of it. Porcelain is treated not as a fixed tradition, but as an evolving language that allows artists to question, extend, and rework what has been established. In doing so, the works reflect a broader moment of reconsideration: what is worth retaining, and what might be reimagined.
Alongside contemporary works by Robin DuPont, Faye Hadfield, Loren Kaplan, Helena Lacy, Linda Lencovic, Sophie Manessiez, Ricca Okano, Réjean Peytavin, Arkadiusz Szwed and Heather Waugh Pitts, the exhibition includes porcelain pieces from the 1970s by artist, Harlan House. House’s works offer a historical point of reference, situating the exhibition within a longer continuum of material inquiry across generations.
Contact
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Vessels + Sticks Gallery
112 Avenue Road
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2H4
Canada
Photos by Seth Stevenson
