AVAILABLE WORKS
Kurt Weiser
“Bug Lesson”
1994
porcelain, china paint
17 × 13 × 6.5″.
AVAILABLE ARTWORK
Black and White Vase #1 & 2
TEAPOTS
KURT WEISER INSOMNIA PRINT SERIES
“These prints are the beginning of an exploration into 30 years of private sketchbooks. Some books are 30 years old and others just weeks. The past stimulates the future and the present is a matter of interpretation. It’s the exploration into the familiar that is always a surprise.”
— Kurt Weiser
About the Prints
Each print is in an edition of 10, 24 x 36 inches on a 30 x 44 inch Somerset 250 gsm paper, printed from linoleum cuts by Dan Mayer at Pyracantha Press. The Press is part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Oleander and Flight Over Kansas are the first two of ten prints started in the summer of 2016.
Pyracantha Press is the independent publishing imprint in the Herberger Institute School of Art at Arizona State University. The Press is directed by Daniel Mayer who has produced inter-disciplinary collaborative works since 1986. Projects created under the Press are limited-edition books and prints that reflect our cultural landscape. Each project is unique and experimental in form and content. Press publications are in 105 national and international public collections such as Columbia University, Library of Congress, The Getty, Klingspor-Stadt Museum, Letterform Archive, Wellesley, Yale, and among others. Mayer’s private studio practices include award-winning large-scale public art projects, national and international exhibitions, collections, and artist’s residencies. Mayer was a nominee for the 2016 Arizona Governor’s Arts Awards, individual artist category.
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Kurt Weiser, “Circumstance” (Edition of 10), 2017, linocut print, ink on Somerset paper, print: 36 x 24″; paper: 44 x 30″.
Kurt Weiser, “Flight Over Kansas” (Edition of 10), 2017, linocut print, ink on Somerset paper, print: 36 x 24″; paper: 44 x 30″.
Kurt Weiser, “Nightshade”(Edition of 10), 2017, linocut print, ink on Somerset paper, print: 36 x 24″; paper: 44 x 30”.
Kurt Weiser, “Oleander” (Edition of 10), 2017, linocut print, ink on Somerset paper, print: 24 x 36″; paper: 30 x 44″.
Kurt Weiser, ‘Hothouse’ 2019, linocut print, ink on Somerset 250 gsm paper, 26 x 35.5″.
Kurt Weiser, “Insomnia” 2019, 2019, linocut print, ink on Somerset 250 gsm paper, 24 x 36″.
Kurt Weiser, “Highway 12″ 2019, 2019, linocut print, ink on Somerset 250 gsm paper, 36 x 28”.
Kurt Weiser, “Milkweed” 2019, 2019, linocut print, ink on Somerset 250 gsm paper, 36 x 27″.
ABOUT
American, b. 1950
lives and works in Tempe, AZ
Kurt Weiser’s ceramic work draws inspiration from rich evocations of plant life to narratives derived from myth and history, placed into highly detailed tropical landscapes. These images are meticulously painted onto porcelain teapots, globes and other vessels. As Weiser notes “the painting is the three-dimensional reality”.
His most recent body of work includes linoleum-cut prints, inspired by decades of drawings from his sketchbooks. He has paired these prints with black and white vessels, relying on his graphic and fantastical style as the means for relating these rich narratives.
Weiser has shown internationally and throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Montgomery Museum of Art (Montgomery, AL) the Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland, OR) and the Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT). His work can be found in numerous public collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Alfred University School of Ceramics, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art among many others. Weiser received his M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and is currently the Regents Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Kurt Weiser, “Insomnia”, 2019, installation view, Ferrin Contemporary.
ON HIS WORK
“For years the work I did in ceramics was an effort to somehow express the beautiful nature of the material. Somewhere in the midst of this struggle I realized that the materials are there to allow you to say what you need to say, not to tell you what to say. So I gave up trying to control nature and decided to use what I had learned about the materials to express some ideas about nature itself and my place in it.” — Kurt Weiser
ON HIS PRINTS
“These prints are the beginning of an exploration into 30 years of private sketchbooks. Some books are 30 years old and others just weeks. The past stimulates the future and the present is a matter of interpretation. It’s the exploration into the familiar that is always a surprise.”
Prints are in editions of 10, 24 x 36 inches on a 30 x 44 inch paper, printed from Somerset 250 gsm linoleum cuts and printed at the Arizona State University Print Studio in Tempe, AZ, by Dan Mayer. Oleander and Flight Over Kansas are the first two of ten prints started in the summer of 2016. — Kurt Weiser
CURRENT + RECENT EXHIBITIONS
- REVIVE, REMIX, RESPOND
- NEW YORK CERAMIC & GLASS FAIR 2018
- NEW YORK CERAMICS & GLASS FAIR 2017
- NEW YORK CERAMICS & GLASS FAIR 2015
- THE POTTER’S TALE: Contextualizing 6,000 Years of Ceramics
- RED STAR STUDIOS TEAPOT INVITATIONAL
- KURT WEISER: The Nature of Imagination
- NEW BLUE AND WHITE
- EXPOSED: Heads, Busts & Nudes
NEWS & FEATURES
ARE WE THERE YET? Featured in the Berkshire Eagle
KURT WEISER Featured in Berkshire Eagle, December 6, 2019
Revive, Remix, Respond at The Frick Pittsburgh
Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational
SUMMER AT FERRIN CONTEMPORARY, JUNE EVENTS IN NORTH ADAMS
#ferrincontemporaryontheroad: New York Ceramics & Glass Fair 2015
Ferrin Contemporary at the New York for the NY Ceramics & Glass Fair 2015, presented “MADE IN CHINA: The New Export Ware” and “Selected Work from Current Projects,” featuring work by 18 artists from around the world.
Ferrin Contemporary presents Made in China at New York Ceramics Fair
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FERRIN CONTEMPORARY presents Ceramic Collectanea
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TEA TIME | Clay Art Center | Exhibition and Symposium
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Ferrin Contemporary’s 10 Best of 2013
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SCENE + SEEN: Summer 2013 | Project Art and Ferrin Gallery
Summer brings ART + ARTISTS from far away places around the world Adelaide, Australia, Jingdezhen, China, Seoul, Korea, to the small village in Cummington, MA, USA on the Eastern edge of the Berkshires, in the heart of the Hilltowns and just west of the Pioneer Valley.
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