What types of art do you specialize in?

We specialize in contemporary ceramics from the 1950s onward, including clay and porcelain sculptures.

Do you offer collection services?

Yes, we work with private collectors and artist archives to organize, document, and appraise ceramic art collections for deacquisition or placement.

Can you help with exhibition development?

Absolutely, we collaborate with museums and cultural institutions to develop and present ceramic art exhibitions.

Do you provide touring programs?

Yes, we curate and organize touring exhibitions for contemporary ceramic artists.

What are legacy projects?

Legacy projects include customized services for artists, such as retrospective catalogs, exhibitions, and museum acquisitions.

Artist News

Artist News, includes articles about shows, news updates, off-site or partner events.

Mar

2023

The Clay Studio Presents: Clay & Conversations Online Lectures with Cristina Córdova & Sergei Isupov

The Clay Studio Presents:

MARCH & APRIL 2023

VIEW SERIES HERE

Online Lectures with Cristina Córdova & Sergei Isupov

Clay & Conversations: Season 5

Free Lectures

Cristina Cordova | MAR 16, 2023

The Clay Studio, Clay and Conversations, Meet Cristina Cordova Thursday, March 16, 1PM EST on Zoom

JOIN (MAR 16) HERE

Meet Cristina Córdova

THURSDAY, MARCH 16 | 1 PM EST

Cristina is one of the dozen artists whose work appears in Figuring Space, an exhibition of life-size ceramic figurative sculpture. We are thrilled to have this talented artist as a guest to ask her about her inspirations for the ideas and styles of her work.

Cristina Córdova excels at figurative sculpture, making finely-crafted pieces which celebrate our shared humanity while challenging notions of race, gender, beauty, and power. She draws on a deep knowledge of art history to give life to contemporary ceramic portraits and invites the viewer to participate in the narrative.

Sergei Isupov | APR 13, 2023

The Clay Studio, Clay and Conversations, Meet Tip Toland and Sergei Isupov Thursday, April 13, 1PM EST on Zoom

JOIN (APR 13) HERE

Meet Tip Toland and Sergei Isupov

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 | 1 PM EST

Tip and Sergei both have a virtuosic skill for creating figures from clay. Join us to hear about how they have built their techniques and what inspires them.

Ferrin Contemporary, Sergei Isupov: PAST & PRESENT, 2022, Photo Credit John Polak

Sergei Isupov is known for his highly detailed, narrative works. Isupov explores painterly figure-ground relationships, creating surreal sculptures with a complex artistic vocabulary that combines two- and three-dimensional narratives and animal/human hybrids.

Jan

2023

Peter Pincus in CHROMANIA at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Peter Pincus in

Color is an essential therapy for those cold and gray Central New York winters. The Everson embraces this with Chromania, a riot of kaleidoscopic color guaranteed to chase the winter grays away. In the wake of Impressionism, twentieth century artists developed a range of strategies to explore and employ color. Painter and educator Josef Albers taught that all color is relative, meaning that the appearance of a color can change based on other colors it is surrounded by.

Beginning with Albers’ iconic Homage to the Square series, Chromania explores how subsequent generations of artists in the Everson’s collection employ color in ways that are subjective and expressive as well as scientific and systematic. From the precise geometry of Peter Pincus’ ceramics to the animated gesture of a painting by Jackie Saccoccio, Chromania provides dazzle and inspiration during the long months of winter.

CHROMANIA

At EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | Syracuse, NY | January 21 – May 7, 2023

Peter Pincus, “Losing #422”, 2020, colored porcelain.

Jan

2023

The James Renwick Alliance Presents: Online Workshop & Lecture with Cristina Córdova

FEBRUARY 4-5, 2023 | (Online only)

Artist Workshop
Saturday, February 4 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Hosted on Zoom
$40 members | $50 non-members

Free Lecture
Sunday, February 5 | 2pm – 3pm
Free and open to the public
Hosted on Zoom

JOIN THE JRA WORKSHOP & LECTURE!

* Cristina’s newest workshop *

Distinguished Artist Series with Cristina Córdova

Online Workshop & Lecture with Cristina Córdova

Cristina Córdova excels at figurative sculpture, making finely-crafted pieces which celebrate our shared humanity while challenging notions of race, gender, beauty, and power. She draws on a deep knowledge of art history to give life to contemporary ceramic portraits and invites the viewer to participate in the narrative.

Cristina Cordova, “Cosmología isleña (Island Cosmology)”, 2021, detail, ceramic, metal, resin, wood, Figure and pedestal: 90 x 45 x 44″ Figure assembled with Plantains: 60 x 27 x 26″ Pedestal: 30 x 18 x 18″ .

Dec

2022

NEW YEAR’S WORKSHOP AT THE CLAY STUDIO: Facial Features with Sergei Isupov

For Additional Programming :
View FIGURING SPACE Show Page HERE

We are excited to have two extremely talented artists demonstrate and explain their techniques for creating expressive facial features in clay. This is a very special opportunity to learn from highly acclaimed figurative artists. Spend the afternoon with us to hear their tips, get to know them, and enjoy spending time together in the community.

The Clay Studio

Please contact Josie Bockelman for discount information at josie@theclaystudio.org

Sergei Isupov, “On the Way”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, 59.5 x 26 x 16″.

Aug

2022

Chris Antemann in The Art of Food at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland, OR

Chris Antemann’s Work Featured in

In its most everyday sense, food is a physical necessity, yet its overall significance goes far beyond sustenance. Food is integral to our communities, relationships, cultures, and languages. People interact with food on varying levels. Some of us grow or gather it; more of us buy it. We transform it by cutting, cooking, and dressing it with spices, marinades, and garnishes. We use food as an intermediary to connect with others through holiday meals, business lunches, dates, and more.

The Art of Food:
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

At the JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART AT PSU | Portland, OR | August 30 – December 3, 2022

Chris Antemann in The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, 2022, Portland, OR.

PUBLIC EVENTS

ARTIST TALK WITH CHRIS ANTEMANN

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 4pm – 5pm

Location: JSMA at PSU FMH 110
1855 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201

Cost / Admission : Free Admission

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is pleased to present a talk with Chris Antemann, an Oregon-based artist featured in our new exhibition, The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. The talk will be followed by the exhibition’s opening reception.

Learn More About the Artist Talk HERE

RSVP HERE

OPENING RECEPTION: THE ART OF FOOD

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 – 5pm – 7pm

Location: JSMA at PSU FMH 110
1855 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201

Cost / Admission : Free Admission

Join us for the opening reception for The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Featuring more than 100 works ranging from drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and ceramics by 38 artists such as John Baldessari, Enrique Chagoya, Alex Katz, Alison Saar, Lorna Simpson, Andy Warhol, and four Oregon-based artists, Katherine Ace, Chris Antemann, Malia Jensen, and Sherrie Wolf, The Art of Food showcases how some of the most prominent artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have considered this universal subject. Organized thematically, it uses an artistic lens to examine the subject of food beyond its purpose as body fuel.

Learn More About the Opening HERE

RSVP HERE

Jun

2022

Peripheries: EDGES

May 7th- 29th 2022

The Ceramic House
75 Stanmer Villas
Brighton
BN1 7HN
United Kingdom

Featuring work by Kadri Pärnamets

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Peripheries launches EDGES, an ambitious international ceramic and sound art project between three nations at the western and eastern edges of Europe: Ireland, Estonia and the UK.

EDGES focuses on international exchange and residencies with artists collaborating across the disciplines of ceramics and sound art. Outcomes include exhibitions, presentations, performances, geo-located sound walks and community engagement activities.

Peripheries invites two sound artists from Ireland to collaborate with two ceramic artists from Estonia, the results of which will be exhibited as the centre piece at The Ceramic House offering this May, accompanied by an exhibition of contemporary ceramics by leading Estonian artists.

The exhibition is curated by artists and curators Kay Aplin and Joseph Young.

The results of the residency will be exhibited in In Camera Gallery, The Ceramic House’s white cube, and the Estonian ceramics show will be displayed throughout the house. All the exhibiting ceramic artists selected have an interest in exploring traditional techniques with a contemporary sensibility, offering UK collectors, specialists and artists a rare overview of the breadth of contemporary Estonian ceramic practice today. The month-long residency is funded by I-Portunus EU funding.

Peripheries is a pilot for EDGES, a 2 year-long investigation into meeting places, what it means to work at the edge of something, to be on the fringes, and understanding artistic practice as a so-called ‘cutting edge’, where boundaries are pushed back, and frontiers explored. EDGES will continue in 2023-24 with an exhibition of Irish ceramics at The Ceramic House, international residencies in Estonia and Ireland and culminating exhibitions at Watts Gallery, UK and Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland.

Kadri Pärnamets, “Lime Vase”, 2017.

Kadri Pärnamets, “Moor” 2019, porcelain, slip, glaze, 8 x 9 x 6″.

Kadri Pärnamets, “Blue Vase”, 2017.

Kadri Pärnamets, “Black and Red Vase” 2019, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11 x 9.5 x 6.5″

Kadri Pärnamets, ”Spring Announcers” 2019, porcelain, slip, glaze, 10.5 x 7 x 5″.

Kadri Pärnamets, “Cups”, 2020, porcelain, slip, glaze, ~4 x 4 x 4″ (each)

ABOUT KADRI PÄRNAMETS

Estonian, b. 1968, Rakvere, Estonia
lives and works in Cummington, MA

Kadri Pärnamets works in porcelain using traditional hand building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting. Her biomorphic, organic forms provide a means to convey personal interests ranging from the fragile, natural environment to female identity. Focusing on gesture and expression, she selects known classics of female beauty by painters from the European Renaissance and Impressionist eras, like Lucas Cranach the Elder and Edouard Manet. Pärnamets has taught in the Estonian Art Academy and is a member of the Asuurkeraamika Studio, Estonian Artists Association, and Estonian Ceramist Association.

Pärnamets’ work has been shown internationally at Ferrin Contemporary, (North Adams, MA), the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, (Tallinn, Estonia), and at the International Tea Trade Expo, (Shanghai, China). Since 1996, she has participated in symposiums in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, USA, Norway, and Hungary. In Pärnamets graduated from the Art Institute of Tallinn, Estonia in 1994 with a BA/MFA in Ceramics. Dividing her time between Estonia and USA, her primary studio is the USA at Project Art in Cummington, MA. She is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

EVENTS

Opening reception

Thursday, May 5th
6-9pm

Peripheries was part of the Artists Open Houses festival.

NEWS

Edges Peripheries Press Release 22.2.22

Jun

2022

Beth Lipman: All In Time | Wichita Art Museum

June 24- September 25, 2022

Wichita Art Museum
1400 West Museum Boulevard
Wichita, Kansas USA

Opening Day
June 25, 2022, 11am-3pm

Seeing More Clearly Through Glass Curator Talk
July 7, 2022, 6pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In celebration of Beth Lipman–whose monumental, 3-ton sculpture Living History was recently unveiled in the museum’s Boeing Foyer–Wichita Art Museum presents All in Time, a mid-career retrospective of the artist featuring her work from the mid-2000s through today.

For over 20 years, artist Beth Lipman has used glass and other materials to create luscious and sumptuous still lifes. These still lifes feature everything from bowls of fruit to prehistoric plants to piles of books. For Lipman, each still life object speaks to identity–of an individual, a society, and of human culture in general. All in Time brings into focus Lipman’s long interest in using glass to explore issues of life, creation, decay, and death–the fleeting nature of human life and human history contrasted with the billions of years of geological time. What is the role of humanity and art in a world and universe that existed long before us? What do we create that endures?

Learn more at wichitaartmuseum.org

Show Contract & Finance Independent of Ferrin Contemporary.

Beth Lipman, “Sphenophyllum and Chains”, 2019, glass, wood, metal, paint, adhesive, 54 x 38 x 50″ Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Rich Maciejewski

EVENTS

Opening Day

June 25, 2022, 11am-3pm at Wichita Art Museum

View Full Schedule

Seeing More Clearly Through Glass

July 7, 2022, 7pm at Wichita Art Museum

Curator Talk with Dr. Carolyn Needell, Carolyn and Richard Barry Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia

Learn More

ABOUT BETH LIPMAN

Beth Lipman explores aspects of material culture through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. Working primarily with glass, she creates portraits individuals and our society through inanimate objects that are often broken, “flawed,” or “perfect”. Mortality, consumerism, materiality, and temporality, have been critical issues since the inception of the still life tradition in the 17th century, and continue to be relevant her in contemporary work.

Lipman has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She recently completed One Portrait of One Man, a sculptural response to Marsden Hartley for the Weisman Art Museum (MN). Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Gustavsbergs Konsthall (Sweden) and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY).

INQUIRE • HERE •

Feb

2021

CRAFTING AMERICA | Crystal Bridges

February 6 – May 31, 2021

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Bentonville, AR

Featuring a newly commissioned work of art by Beth Lipman

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Featuring over 100 works in ceramics, fiber, wood, metal, glass, and more unexpected materials, Crafting America presents a diverse and inclusive story of American craft from the 1940s to today, highlighting the work of artists such as Ruth Asawa, Peter Voulkos, Jeffrey Gibson, Sonya Clark, and more. Craft has long been a realm accessible to the broadest range of individuals, providing an opportunity to explore personal creativity, innovation, and technical skill. This exhibition foregrounds varied backgrounds and perspectives in craft, from the vital contributions of Indigenous artists to the new skills and points of view brought by immigrants to the United States.

Learn more at crystalbridges.org

Show Contract & Finance Independent of Ferrin Contemporary.

Beth Lipman, “Belonging(s)”, 2020, glass, ceramic, gold lacquer, enamel paint, salt, sand, adhesive, 27 x 40.5 x 23″. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2021.3. Photo by Ironside Photography.

ABOUT BETH LIPMAN

INQUIRE • HERE •

Oct

2020

Virtual Closing | ART IN THE AGE OF INFLUENCE: Peter Pincus | Sol LeWitt

ZOOM Virtual Closing Event

Friday, October 9th at 5 pm EST

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — Art in the Age of Influence: Peter Pincus | Sol Lewitt culminates with a virtual closing event on Friday, October 9th at 5pm, with additional public programming available online.

After a very successful show, the closing event will take place on Zoom and feature a virtual studio visit with the artist, Peter Pincus.

Other programming, such as artist presentations and curatorial conversations with the Everson Museum and the Birmingham Museum of Art are available HERE.

JOIN ON ZOOM | OCTOBER 9 | 5PM EST

Time: Oct 9, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting: JOIN HERE
Meeting ID: 840 5700 0457
Passcode: FCTalks

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Passcode: 4265636
Find your local number: HERE

Pincus will be broadcasting from his studio in Penfield, NY, and asks all to join him for virtual cocktails and a kiln opening, revealing the third set of jars from his “Jar Drawing” series, inspired by Sol LeWitt.

This is the Pincus’ summer of 2020 favorite cocktail – join us in mixing it at home using the recipe from

LACK BUTTON DISTILLING

Rochester’s First and Finest grain-to-glass distillery since prohibition

EL DIABLO

¾ oz Gin

¾ oz Blanco Tequila

¾ oz Crème de Cassis

½ oz Lime Juice
Shake with ice & strain
Top with 3 oz Ginger Beer
Lime wheel garnish

GET VIRTUAL EVENTBRITE TICKETS

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VIEW THE EXHIBITION

Chris Antemann in Exposition Ceramiques Gourmandes at Fondation Bernardaud, France

Exposition Céramiques Gourmandes

FONDATION BERNARDAUD | Limoges, France

June 21, 2019 – October 31, 2020

When art becomes epicurean, voracious, pie-eyed with the pleasures of the palate—inventing dishes, desserts, pieces montées or banquet scenes—sinking its teeth into an examination of our relationship with food (guilty, sensual, problematic)—we have Céramiques gourmandes, an exhibition cooked up by the Fondation Bernardaud, featuring fourteen international artists with a taste for ceramic: the crème de la crème!

Fired clay and fine fare have long been companions. Gustatory pleasure has inspired artists in every era: what we eat says so much about humankind, its environment and its excesses. The feasts we see here are technical feats, to be savored visually, virtually. Like a mouthwatering promise. You can almost hear the “mmmm”s, “yum”s, and “more”s.

In the 18th century, during the vogue for naturalism, ceramicists played with trompe l’oeil. Fantasies in faience and porcelain, decorated plates or trick displays, were wildly popular through Europe—England, Hungary, Germany, and France. There were reproductions of radishes, artichoke quarters, and hard-boiled eggs, sometimes doused in mayonnaise. Kilns yielded compotiers full of olives and bouchées à la reine. There were terrines in the form of pheasants, ducks, roosters; plates disguised as hearts of lettuce or bunches of asparagus; bonbonnières as lemons. Bestiary and kitchen garden were called upon to decorate festal tables.

Delectation is always a question of taste. Gluttons are scourged; gourmets’ refinement encouraged. What we eat reveals what we are. And in our consumer societies, now grown obese, the question of food is at the heart of sanitary, political, and ecological issues.

Chris Antemann’s DINING IN THE ORANGERY at Bernardaud

Chris Antemann, “Dining in the Orangery”, 2019 Installation at Bernardaud

The Clay Studio Presents:

MARCH & APRIL 2023

Free Lectures

Meet Cristina Córdova

THURSDAY, MARCH 16 | 1 PM EST

Meet Tip Toland and Sergei Isupov

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 | 1 PM EST

Peter Pincus in

More on the Exhibition HERE

More on Peter Pincus HERE

At EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART | Syracuse, NY | January 21 – May 7, 2023

FEBRUARY 4-5, 2023 | (Online only) ​

​Artist Workshop Saturday, February 4 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm Hosted on Zoom $40 members | $50 non-members ​ Free Lecture Sunday, February 5 | 2pm – 3pm ​Free and open to the public Hosted on Zoom ​

JOIN THE JRA WORKSHOP & LECTURE!

* Cristina’s newest workshop *

Jan 13-Jan 13 | 1:00 PM-4:00 PMFriday Afternoon

Tuition: $ 100.00Adult Class: All Skill Levels

Chris Antemann’s Work Featured in

More on the Exhibition HERE

More on Chris Antemann HERE

At the JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART AT PSU | Portland, OR | August 30 – December 3, 2022

PUBLIC EVENTS

ARTIST TALK WITH CHRIS ANTEMANN

Learn More About the Artist Talk HERE

RSVP HERE

OPENING RECEPTION: THE ART OF FOOD

Learn More About the Opening HERE

RSVP HERE

May 7th- 29th 2022

ABOUT KADRI PÄRNAMETS

EVENTS

Opening reception

NEWS

June 24- September 25, 2022

Wichita Art Museum 1400 West Museum Boulevard Wichita, Kansas USA

EVENTS

February 6 – May 31, 2021

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 600 Museum Way Bentonville, AR

ZOOM Virtual Closing Event

Friday, October 9th at 5 pm EST

This is the Pincus’ summer of 2020 favorite cocktail – join us in mixing it at home using the recipe from

EL DIABLO

Chris Antemann’s DINING IN THE ORANGERY at Bernardaud

FEBRUARY 4-5, 2023 | (Online only)

Artist Workshop
Saturday, February 4 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Hosted on Zoom
$40 members | $50 non-members

Free Lecture
Sunday, February 5 | 2pm – 3pm
Free and open to the public
Hosted on Zoom

Jan 13-Jan 13 | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Friday Afternoon

Tuition: $ 100.00
Adult Class: All Skill Levels

Wichita Art Museum
1400 West Museum Boulevard
Wichita, Kansas USA

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Bentonville, AR