Notes and Happenings from Ferrin Contemporary:Ceramic Specialists
Comprised of pieces from RAM’s permanent collection, the work in this solo showreveals the artist’s exploration of the human condition in two-dimensionalnarrative on three-dimensional ceramic forms.
Racine Art Museum’s Collection Focus: Sergei Isupov
Feb 23–June 8, 2014 | Racine Art Museum | Racine, WI
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InCiteful Clay
Ceramic artists use clay to critique current social and political inequities. Curator: Judith Schwartz.
Jan 28 – Oct 20, three US locations
At Your Service
Exploring the significance and wider implications of the common plate.
Feb 14–Sept 21, 2014
Bellevue Arts Museum
Sergei Isupov | Promenade
Solo Exhibition of Recent Works
Mar 7–Apr 22, 2014
In The Lower Gallery
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
Kohler Art Center | 40th Anniversary
Celebrating with a retrospective exhibition of work from artist residencies and their permanent collection. spring 2014, Sheboygan, WI
Ceramic Collectanea
Introducing our new, constantly changing collection of important master work that has re-entered the market from private collections and estates.
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Teatime at Clay Art Center
Exploring the rich history of tea and its relevance in our culture with functional and sculptural teapots.
Feb 1–Apr 1, Port Chester, NY
Collection Focus: Sergei Isupov
Isupov explores the human condition in 2-d narrative on 3-d ceramic forms.
Feb 23–June 8, 2014
Racine Art Museum, WI
Roy Superior: Patent Models for a Good Life
A remembrance of a creative life
The Center for Art in Wood
Feb 7–Apr 19, 2014, Philadelphia
Ceramic Top 40 | Boston
A remix of the show at Red Star Studios in Kansas City will be hosted by The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard University this summer.
Teapot Collectanea
Our newest collection offers a range of work from traditional designs to conceptual constructions created by both emerging and established artists.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
important exhibition of contemporary cross-cultural interchange
Project Art visiting artist from
Jingdezhen, China
summer 2013
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
ceramic visualizations of human relationships with animals
The Nature of Imagination
Cross MacKenzie Gallery
Washington, DC
Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Sean Erwin was awarded the solo exhibition in 2014.
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at Barry Friedman Ltd., New York City
Sergei Isupov’s solo exhibition of figural sculpture
offering organization, cataloging, appraisals, and resale assistance to private collectors
American Scenery, a series of new work from his Project Art and The Clay Studio artist residencies
figural ceramics at MAD and
Clay Bodies at Barry Friedman, Ltd.
New York City
to our artists, curators, collectors,
friends, professionals, collaborators,
partners, and supporters
in 2013-2014
Our many thanks of appreciation
to the many artists, individuals and colleagues who were part of this amazing transitional year
American Craft Magazine
APE
Archie Bray Foundation
Barry Friedman, Ltd.
Bellevue Arts Museum
Birmingham Museum of Art
Center for Wood Art
Ceramic Art and Perception
Ceramic Research Center – ASU
CFile
Clay Art Center
The Clark
The Clay Studio
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Cross Mackenzie Gallery
Duane Reed Gallery
Erie Art Museum
Gardiner Museum
Gravers Lane Gallery
Greenwich House Pottery
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Historic Deerfield
IS183 Art School
Jeffrey Spahn Gallery
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Margaret Pennington
MASS MoCA
Massachusetts College of Art
MCLA – Downstreet Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
NCECA
New Britain Museum of Art
Newark Museum of Art
New York Ceramics Fair
Palmer Art Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Perimeter Gallery
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Racine Art Museum
Red Star Studios at Belger Crane Yards
Sheridan College
Sienna Gallery
Smith College Museum of Art
Virginia A. Groot Foundation
Watershed Center for Ceramic Art
Wexler Gallery
Winterthur
Yale University Art Gallery
Zea Mays Printmaking
The Team: Amy Bowes, John Polak, Rebecca Weinman, Lynn Zimmerman
The Move: Donald Clark, Sarah Bressem, June Ferrin, Ken Ferrin, Sergei Isupov, Wendy Gingell, Jeffrey Lipton, Jacqui Proctor, Kate Roberts, Graeme Sloan, Jazu Stine
Paul Scott at Project Art, Cummington, MA. At the conclusion of his dual residency at Clay Studio, Philadelphia. His Artist Salon and weekend open house coincided with artists delivering for Ceramic Top 40, Linda Sormin, Bobby Silverman. Foraging for fall fungi at William Cullent Bryant Homestead and Historic Cummington.
Paul Scott is a material based conceptual artist who creates individual ceramic pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and design. With a penchant for rescuing cast-offs, he fondly restores them to a new life by using them as a canvas for biting social commentary. His work can be found in public and private collections around the globe. Scott is a leading authority on printed vitreous surfaces. His research and artwork have been instrumental in showing and encouraging the creative use of this traditional printing technique in contemporary decorative ceramics.
Paul Scott’s series, American Scenery will be presented at:
New York Ceramics Fair 2014
January 21–2, 2014
Bohemian National Hall, New York
During his recent residencies, lecture tour, and travels in the US, Scott gathered and created a new series, American Scenery, inspired by his travels, observation, and research into American landscape painting, prints, and the subsequent use of those images on ceramic transfer ware. Knowledge drawn from behind-the-scenes tours at museums and collections throughout the North East influences this new work where Scott has applied prints he produced in the USA onto rescued, cast off ceramic plates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work tells stories that explore the unexpected movement of images through materials, media, cultures, politics, histories, and geographies, inviting us to see a whole group of objects in a new way.
Paul Scott is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.
seen +scene: Attending the opening of Ceramic Top 40 at Red Star studios at Belger Crane Yards in Kansas City with visits to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Nelson Atkins Museum, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Jun Kaneko’s Magic Flute Lyric Opera, Red Star studios and gallery.
exhibition of artists under and over age 40 currently working in ceramics November 1 – January 25, 2014
presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios at Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, Missouri
Ceramic Top 40 | 2013 presents art work by individual artists, collaborators, and design partners – half over and half under age 40 – drawn from the finalists of juried submissions and by invitation. These artists are currently working on the cutting edge of current processes, ideas, and presentation concepts in conceptual utilitarian and sculptural ceramics.
The exhibition emerged from the need for a fresh overview of contemporary ceramics. The increased integration of ceramic art and objects in recent exhibitions at museums and contemporary art galleries has increased media attention and awareness of the importance of the medium of clay in our time for this generation of makers and collectors.
This survey of contemporary ceramic art features the work of established masters continuing to break creative ground alongside the next generation of artists who are developing a strong root system of their own at mid career.
Selections from Ceramic Top 40 will be shown at the Ceramics Progran, Office for the Arts at Harvard from May 27 – August 16, 2014
A catalog will be available in June – click HERE to be on the list
PAUL SCOTT in the U.S.A.
Paul Scott – working at Project Art in Cummington, researching transfer ware, sourcing materials and visiting artists in Western Massachusetts followed by 6 weeks at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia.
American Scenery
New York Ceramics Fair 2014
January 21–2, 2014
Bohemian National Hall, New York
During his recent residencies, lecture tour, and travels in the US, Scott gathered and created a new series, American Scenery, inspired by his travels, observation, and research into American landscape painting, prints, and the subsequent use of those images on ceramic transfer ware. Knowledge drawn from behind-the-scenes tours at museums and collections throughout the North East influences this new work where Scott has applied prints he produced in the USA onto rescued, cast off ceramic plates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work tells stories that explore the unexpected movement of images through materials, media, cultures, politics, histories, and geographies, inviting us to see a whole group of objects in a new way.
Paul Scott is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.
On a recent visit to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, it was remarkable to see how the new selections from the permanent collection, currently on view made by curator, Emily Zilber reflect the work we are doing to prepare a private collection for sale this fall. As one generation of collectors “deaccess”, through sale and gifts, the museums are getting to define the period that is both now and then.
READ MORE IN THE POST FROM SCENE + SEEN …
Since 2010, Emily Zilber, the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts (a position within the Contemporary Art Department) at the MFA Boston, has taken her job and run with it. Barely catching her breath after installing her ground breaking exhibition “New Blue and White”(which closed in July) she turned her attention to a reinstallation of the permanent collection. On August 3, 2013 the dedicated gallery of contemporary decorative arts reopened and clearly shows the support she is getting from a core group of private collectors and within her institution. Her choices from the permanent collection blend a hybrid mix of categories – without prejudice or typical hierarchy – positioning the masters of studio craft and material based sculpture side by side with cutting edge explorations of concept that include photography and design.
The MFA named its contemporary craft gallery in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art after another power pair of benefactors Daphne and Peter Farago, whose collection was assembled with an encyclopedic eye to history and legacy. Opened in 2011 with “Crafting Contemporary: Selections from the Daphne Farago Collection”, the first installation was an overview drawn from the over 950 objects that have been donated to the museum in Mrs. Farago’s lifetime. This newest installation reflects the numerous recent acquisitions, both gifts and purchases – all identified with red squares. Zilber’s choices show a wide range from recent conceptual work by Nicole Cherubini, photography by Lauren Kalman adjacent to a loveseat by Wendel Castle and Tom Patti’s 1980 work in glass.
Zilber is one of the new generation of curators who are tackling the ongoing transition spanning a time period that combines primary cutting edge works by living artists with seminal works by those who carved out this field. Her curatorial practice with the support of the MFA Boston and their benevolent private collectors is providing leadership for the way museums acquire and present contemporary decorative arts.
Emily Zilber is the MFA Boston’s first Ronald L. and Anita C. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts, joining the museum in October 2010. She is responsible for the MFA’s program of contemporary decorative arts, including guiding acquisitions and developing a presence for this material in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art and throughout the museum. She oversees the MFA’s Daphne and Peter Farago Gallery. Recent projects include the exhibition New Blue-and-White, which focuses on contemporary interpretations of ceramic history by makers across media. Emily Zilber has edited and written for numerous publications and speaks regularly on topics related to 20th-century and contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design. She recieved a BA in Art History from The University of Chicago and an MA from the Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture.
FOR MORE …
About Lauren Kalman, represented by Sienna Patti Contemporary
About private collections represented by Ferrin Contemporary
About New Blue and White curated by Emily Zilber at the MFA Boston
Visiting Friends on Sunday Afternoon -ROY AND MARA SUPERIOR have lived in Williamsburg, Massachusetts since the mid 70’s. They’ve been making and collecting art and objects, filling their home with a chronology of their lives – his sculpture and furniture, her porcelain tableware and constructed vessels, his cabinets filled with her ceramics – ledges, shelves, side tables – framed works on paper – their home is an installation and lifetime collaboration. Her work features images and phrases from an idealized life with titles prominently featured. “Paradise” and shows a porcelain heaven, the new work, a commission is on the table “In Pursuit of Happiness” is based on Jefferson in the form of the White House.
OLD GROWTH FOREST – A WALK IN THE WOODS and a rain shower – “I don’t know if you can see this in the photo but …” walking near Project Art in the old growth forest this afternoon, it rained AND the sun was shining, AND I found chanterelles AND I was listening to Ben Carter’s interview with Vipoo Srivilasa AND at the end of the two hour interview, they spoke about when I met Vipoo at the Subversive Clay, 2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale Adelaide. It is a small world when you can walk through the forest in Cummington, Massachusetts and listen to a podcast by someone who is at Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Montana who is talking to someone from Thailand who lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia knowing that within a year, he will probably show up at Project Art in Cummington, MA. The “ANDS” could go on from here but I think you get the picture. Podcasts by Ben and Brian R. Jones make the world a smaller place. Vipoo and Mara are have works on view at Ferrin Contemporary located at Project Art in Cummington, MA. Gallery open by appt and during public programs. The next Artist Salon is Tuesday, August 13 6-8 p.m.
FOR MORE on Mara Superior and Vipoo Srivilasa onview at Ferrin Contemporary – Selected works from Current Procects
For MORE on Brian R. Jones and the JonesCast
