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.

Highlights

Jun

2018

MASTER WORKS from PRIVATE COLLECTIONS On View & Available Online

MASTER WORKS from Private Collections ON VIEW & Available Online

Mark Pharis

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Ferrin Contemporary is proud to offer selected works from artist archives and private collections 1950–present. These works from the 80s and 90s are now available as collectors downsize and offer a unique opportunity to acquire, fill gaps, and begin collections.
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MASTERWORKS — EARLY WORKS
From Private Collections and Artist Archives

Chris Antemann
Edward Eberle
Dorothy Hafner
Coille McLaughlin Hooven
Sergei Isupov
Doug Jeck
Takahiro Kondo
Phillip Maberry (shown at left)
Michael Sherrill
Esther Shimazu
Akio Takamori
Tip Toland
Beatrice Wood

AMERICAN STUDIO POTTERY FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Selected works are available for sale online and at the annual mid-summer open house, July 28-29 during the Hilltown 6 annual pottery tour and our HOPS+POTS event.

Warren Mackenzie (shown at left)
Mathew Metz, Mark Pharis, Linda Sikora and Michael Simon

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FERRIN CONTEMPORARY ON ARTSY

Artsy features the world’s leading galleries, public and private collections, and artist estates, all in one place. Artsy is used by art lovers, museum-goers, patrons, collectors, students, and educators to discover, learn about, and collect art. You can find the best from Ferrin Contemporary there as well as on our website.

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Chris Antemann (shown at left)

MIDSUMMER & HOPS+POTS
July 28 & 29

Join us at Project Art for HOPS+POTS and midsummer OPEN HOUSE in Cummington.
Work by resident artists Sergei Isupov, Kadri Pärnamets, Alexandra Jelleberg, and Paul Scottwill be on view along with selected works from Ferrin Contemporary’s current projects and recent exhibitions during the July 28 & 29 OPEN HOUSE.

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FERRIN CONTEMPORARY ON VIEW SUMMER 2018

DIRECTIONS: SERGEI ISUPOV is on view at Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA, through July 22. Click for more.

CRISTINA CÓRDOVA: Del balcón at Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA. July 26–September 16. Preview: Thurs July 26, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Thurs Aug 2, 7pm. Click for more.

SAVE THE DATE
Coming up in Cummington, MA, HOPS+POTS on July 28 and PROJECT ART OPEN HOUSE on July 28 & 29. Click for more.

SERGEI ISUPOV is among the featured artists at 2018 MASTERS IN CRAFT at the Chautauqua Institute in New York. On view through Aug 20.
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CRISTINA CÓRDOVA: JUNGLA is on view at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum through July 29. Click for more.

May

2018

Summer Events at Ferrin Contemporary & Project Art 2018

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY | Current and Upcoming

DIRECTIONS: SERGEI ISUPOV

on view through July 22
Ferrin Contemporary
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams

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Click to view more work by Sergei Isupov.

MARA SUPERIOR

Hilltown Open Studios Tour (HOST)
June 24–25
26 artists show their work in 24 locations in the Hillltowns of Western Mass.
Mara Superior is the featured artist at Project Art.

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Click to view more work by Mara Superior.

MidSummer in the Berkshires | July 26 & 29

CRISTINA CÓRDOVA: DEL BALCÓN

Thursday, July 26, 2018
Preview during DownStreet Art in North Adams
Cristina Cordóva’s solo exhibition, Del balcón
on view through September 16.

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PROJECT ART OPEN HOUSE

July 28–29, 2018
Open House at Project Art
52 Main Street, Cummington
Selected works from Ferrin Contemporary,
private collections, and current projects.

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HILLTOWN6 POTTERY TOUR

July 28–29, 2018
Backroads, summertime, great pots.
Download the map and schedule.

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HOPS + POTS

Sat, July 28, 2018, 6:00–8:30pm
Local Beer, Food, Pottery, Music
Benefit Party and Sale for Studio Potter
Project Art, 54 Main Street, Cummington, MA

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CURATED ART TOURS

Let us help you organize a group itinerary to visit the Berkshires and get behind the scenes with artists, curators – now scheduling fall 2018 and spring 2019 tours for museum and collector groups.

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FERRIN CONTEMPORARY
in Building 13 on the MASS MoCA Campus

Start or end your day at FERRIN CONTEMPORARY while you explore the world of MASS MoCA and Downtown North Adams for more local art, food, and, of course, beer.

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Dec

2017

THE WOMEN at Ferrin Contemporary

THE WOMEN

Ferrin Contemporary presents selected works by women artists whose primary medium is clay. On view in the gallery and online, we introduce new works by emerging and established artists along with masterworks available from private collections and artist archives.

ON VIEW IN THE GALLERY
Ferrin Contemporary
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
through Dec 31, 2017
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Susan Thayer, “Return” teapot, 2016
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CRISTINA CÓRDOVA

Upcoming: CRISTINA CÓRDOVA: JUNGLA
Solo Exhibition at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum
Opening February 2018

Cristina Córdova, “Cabeza I con pájaro,” small head, 2017
Click to view more work by Cristina Córdova.

KADRI PÄRNAMETS

Kardri Pärnamets’ biomorphic forms are a canvas for paintings drawn from art history’s iconic images of women. Currently on view in THE WOMEN at Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA.

The Turkish Bath after Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, teapot, 2016
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CHRISTIE BROWN

Featured in EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes
our recent exhibition of figural ceramic sculpture from 1965 to the present featuring masterworks by noted American and British sculptors.

Christy Brown, “Ghost Portrait” 2015, ceramic sculpture.
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Click to view EXPOSED catalog.

CLAIRE CURNEEN

one of Great Britain’s most well-known figural sculptors

On view in THE WOMEN
Ferrin Contemporary
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
through December 31, 2017

Claire Curneen, “Mary Magdalene” 2015, ceramic sculpture.
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Click to view EXPOSED catalog.

CRYSTAL MOREY: WORK IN PROGRESS

Introducing artist Crystal Morey to be featured in
Revive, Remix, Respond: Contemporary Ceramic Artists at The NY Ceramics & Glass Fair and The Frick Pittsburgh in 2018
Crystal Morey, “Entangled Wonders: Across a Divide” 2017–8, work in progress.
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TOSHIKO TAKAEZU: PENNINGTON COLLECTION

The Margaret Pennington Collection includes works for sale by pioneering female artists Ruth Duckworth, Viola Frey, Elsa Rady, Toshiko Takaezu, and Patti Warashina.

Toshiko Takaezu, “Untitled Form #53” 1990.
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LINDA SIKORA: Upcoming at NYCGF

New works by Linda Sikora to be featured at
The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair

Lecture Saturday, January 21, 4:00 pm
“American Studio Pottery — Making of a Movement”
Join Linda Sikora and Mark Shapiro in a conversation about divergent backgrounds, training, and influences as a way to touch on significant themes in postwar North American ceramics. Moderator Adrienne Spinozzi is Assistant Research Curator of American Decorative Arts, The American Wing, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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STUDIO POTTERY AND DESIGN: IN THE SHOP

Visit our square shop to purchase available works by Laura Andreson, Kim Dickey, Karen Karnes, Linda Sikora, Jenny Mendez, Dorothy Hafner, and Kadri Pärnamets.

Linda Sikora, “Cruet Set”, c.1990.
Browse the Shop.

WOMEN CURATORS AND ARTISTS AT NYCGF

Curators and Artists in Conversation at the
New York Ceramics and Glass Fair
Friday, January 19th

“Revive, Remix, Respond: Contemporary Ceramic Artists”
Dawn Brean with Crystal Morey, 2:00 pm
“Time Travel in the Period Room”
with Elisabeth Agro, Barry Harwood, Sarah Carter; 4:00 pm

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STUDIO POTTER: WOMEN IN CERAMICS

Women in Ceramics Vol. 45 No. 1
In this issue of Studio Potter: nine essays remembering the life of Karen Karnes, a deep investigation of the legacy of women in wood-firing, several narratives about artists’ personal journeys in clay, artist profiles, and international perspectives.
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Click to request complimentary issue online.

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Nov

2017

Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational

Nov 12, 2017—Feb 25, 2018
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Ferrin Contemporary artists Sergei Isupov, Jason Walker, Kurt Weiser, and Beth Lipman are among the diverse group of fifty-seven artists interpreting the Sabbath — the day of rest — from their own unique perspectives and engaging with its contemporary relevance. All work is three-dimensional as artists explore the theme through ceramic, wood, and glass.

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Click for more about Sergei Isupov.

Click for more about Jason Walker.

Click for more about Kurt Weiser.

Click for more about Beth Lipman.

Click to browse Ferrin Contemporary’s Square Shop.

Sergei Isupov, “Life’s Work” 2011, porcelain, slip, glaze, 16.875 x 14.75 x 5.5″

Beth Lipman, “Distill #7” 2016, cast iron with rust patina, chrome, 8 x 12 x 5”. Photo courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center/ Kohler Co.

Jason Walker, “Falling Into a Fish Ball” 2017, porcelain, china paint, stainless steel, 14 x 17 x 5″.

Kurt Weiser, “Solitude” 2017, porcelain, china paint.

Nov

2017

The Women

THE WOMEN

Cristina Córdova, “Encanto” 2017, clay & mixed media drawing on acid-free cardboard, 82 x 60”.

THE WOMEN

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Nov

2017

Mara Superior: Porcelain Stories

solo exhibition
October 17–November 20
Artist Reception: Sunday, November 12, 1-4pm
Gravers Lane Gallery
8405 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia

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Aug

2017

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST: Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Architectural Digest: Alice in Wonderland

by Sonia S. Braga

At Saffis Offices in Milan, eight international artists of art ceramics interpret the visionary and surreal atmospheres of the masterpiece born of Lewis Carroll’s pen.