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Jason Walker: On the River, Down the Road

Jason Walker: On the River, Down the Road

Jason Walker, On the River, Down the Road cover

Jason Walker: On the River, Down the Road

Published in 2014 by Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington

• Forward by Stefano Catalani
• Interview with Jason Walker and Stefano Catalani: A Conversation on Rivers, Roads, and the Split Down the Middle
• Exploring the ecological and existential themes informing the site specific installation

20-page, full-color exhibition catalog

  • Out of Print
EXPOSED: Heads, Busts & Nudes

EXPOSED: Heads, Busts & Nudes

EXPOSED: Heads, Busts & Nudes

group show of ceramic figural sculpture by masters 1965–present originally presented at 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA, from June 18 to September 5, 2016

 

EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes is an exhibition of figural ceramic sculpture from 1965 to the present and features masterworks from estates and private collections alongside recent work direct from artist studios, which was originally presented at 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA, from June 18 to September 5, 2016.

This group of noted American and British sculptors explores themes that range from social realism to otherworldly surrealism to abstraction of form. The overview illustrates how early practitioners in California’s Bay Area during in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and Stephen De Staebler, continue to inspire artists today. Known for their use of clay in combination with painted glaze surfaces, these artists challenge presumptions and their work defies easy categorization as sculpture, decorative arts, or studio craft.

The exhibit that took place at Ferrin Contemporary’s gallery in western Massachusetts presents a selection of available works by living and deceased artists featured in the accompanying catalog EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes. The publication includes an introduction by curator Leslie Ferrin and an informative essay by author and independent curator Mark Leach highlighting the seminal moments and interplay between artists and their mentors.

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PETER VOULKOS

PETER VOULKOS

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GISELLE HICKS

GISELLE HICKS

ARTWORKS

GROUP OF VESSELS


GISELLE HICKS


ABOUT


(b. 1979, Boston, MA, lives and works in Helena, MT)

Giselle Hicks is known for her hand-pinched ceramic vessels and slip-cast porcelain tiles that consider volume, repetition, and pattern. Referencing totemic ceramic forms and decorative textiles, her work examines the role of material culture in everyday life—historically and today. Hicks has participated in various artist-in-residence programs including the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Arts/Industry Program at the Kohler Company, The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Greenwich House Pottery, and The Archie Bray Foundation.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, (Boston, MA), Belger Arts Center, (Kansas City, MO), the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, (Sheboygan, WI), and Bellevue Art Museum, (Bellevue, WA). In 2001, Hicks completed her BFA at Syracuse University, and she received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2010.

GISELLE HICKS

ON HER WORK

“I make a range of things with clay, including floral Still-Lifes, full-scale ceramic tables and beds, decorative wall tiles inspired by textiles and pinched vessels. I enjoy a studio practice where I can move from one body of work to another where each process satisfies a different creative impulse, always with the intention of making something beautiful for one to encounter or live with.

These hand-pinched vessels are inspired by iconic forms found throughout ceramic history. They are formal explorations in shape, volume, color and composition. The slow and rhythmic forming process employs very few tools, yielding fresh, dynamic silhouettes. The opaque glaze is soft to the touch like a worn river stone. Fingerprints remain in the clay surface celebrating the slight imperfections of the handmade object.”

DIRECTOR NOTES ON GISELLE HICKS

“Due to the extended run of Nature/Nurture, we have had the opportunity to reflect on paths taken, connections made and shared experiences in our weekly series of FC News & Stories with each issue focusing on an individual artist in the exhibition. The ON NURTURE statements written by each artist acknowledges family, artist mentors, education and for Giselle Hicks, the importance of the residency system and the network it has built for her at mid-career.

Giselle and Leslie Ferrin met in the late summer of 2005 at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center where she was a resident in the Arts/Industry Program, working in the factory for the first time. We both recall the casual meeting that led to her move to Western Massachusetts, working for the gallery and start her independent studio practice as one of the first resident artists at ProjectArt. Hicks is one of the artists included in this exhibition for whom the role the gallery plays in nurturing careers, is really one of co-nurturing. These long relationships grow and form strong personal friendships that motivate us both to strive for mutually beneficial professional goals.”  – Leslie Ferrin, 2020.

ON NURTURE

“My creative interests and curiosities were nurtured early on by my parents and teachers. I was exposed to a variety of visual and performing arts growing up with my mom who enjoyed learning about and collecting art, while my dad was a big proponent of Joseph Campbell’s ‘follow your bliss’ mantra. He thought, if you do something you love, doors will open. What a gift to offer your child. My announcement that I wanted to study art, particularly ceramics, was met with encouragement. I came out of the womb driven to achieve, so my parents must have trusted that I would figure out a way through a career in the arts.

Fortunately, the path had been paved by some incredible makers that continue to serve as inspiring models  – Ruth Duckworth, Lucie Rie, Marguerite Wildenhain, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hess, Viola Frey, Agnes Martin. I’ve been fortunate to have as many wonderful male mentors and teachers – David McDonald, Errol Willett, and Doug Casebeer to name a few. However, it is the female mentors – Beth Lipman, Leslie Ferrin, Linda Sikora, Ann Currier and Andrea Gill – that gave me space, support and permission to develop my voice as a woman, teacher, and full-time studio artist.”  – Giselle Hicks, 2020.

ON PROCESS | PINCHED VESSELS

This series of coiled-and-pinched vessels came from a self-imposed assignment to make something using only a few tools. My hope is that the finished piece reflects my skill and control of the material while acknowledging the limitations and idiosyncrasies of my hands and body.

I begin a day in the studio by making a few sketches, wedging clay and rolling a pile of coils. I work on eight to ten forms at a time, rotating from one to another as they stiffen enough to continue building up the thin walls. It takes about two days to finish a group of vessels. Typically, I work in this rhythm for two weeks before I have enough work to fire. Once the vessels are dry, they are loaded and fired in a bisque kiln, allowed to cool for a day, then sanded and washed in preparation for the glaze application. I dip the pots into a large bucket of glaze to get a thick and even coating. All the work is then fired in an electric kiln to 2230 degrees (cone 6).

ON PROCESS | DECORATIVE WALL TILES

This series of work is influenced by decorative textiles such as quilts, weavings, and embroidered tapestries. I think the labor dedicated to creating these textiles, particularly the quilt, is a beautiful gesture to the significance of these everyday objects which are integral to the rituals of daily life. I want this work to reflect the same care, attention, and labor that went into making the original textiles.

The process of slip-casting has its roots in industry and is used to make a form repeatedly, often on a mass scale. When I begin a new project, I first make a prototype of a pillow by carving a block of plaster into the shape of a soft pillow. Next, I make a two-part plaster mold of the prototype. Once the molds are prepared, I pour colored porcelain-slip into the molds, where it sits for an hour at which point I pour out the excess slip. The plaster mold absorbs the moisture from the porcelain slip, resulting in a hollow form with quarter-inch thick walls. When the form comes out of the mold, I draw the pattern into the surface with a sharp stylus. Once the carving is complete I paint a colored slip over the whole design, wipe the excess off, and what slip remains is inlaid into the carved pattern. The unglazed porcelain looks soft and invites the touch.

Emily Zilber discussing Giselle Hicks “And then it was Still II” in New Blue and White at the Museum of Fine Art Boston

ON AND THEN IT WAS STILL

The series, And Then it Was Still, references both art and literature.  In the 17th century European Still Life paintings, the fragile beauty of flowers is made permanently still in the exquisitely painted object, and thus shared across time as a concept of beauty.

In my work I am inspired to capture that sense of beauty and transience in three dimensional form in order to make solid, still and permanent, something that is fleeting and invisible, such as the characteristic or sense of a person, an exchange between a loved one, or an exuberant meal shared with family and friends. Often taking place within the domestic realm, I find beauty in these daily illuminations and I want to hold them still and give them form. Though these moments are intangible, they mark us and become a part of who we are.

In addition to the visual, I draw ideologically from themes resonate in the book ‘To the Lighthouse’ by Virginia Wolf where the main characters struggle to hold on to and make still the complex beauty they recognize in the small and fleeting, everyday moments.

And Then it was Still presents the table as a dimensional Still Life. I imagined the table blooming with flowers, then frozen in time representing the abundant beauty that I want to hold still.

Giselle Hicks, 2013

CURRENT + RECENT EXHIBITIONS

THE WOMEN

THE WOMEN Oct 28, 2017 – Apr 21, 2018 Ferrin Contemporary 1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA Click here for details. Works on view include recent pieces by women whose primary medium is clay and selected works from private and artist archives by female potters and sculptors. The Women provides Ferrin Contemporary an opportunityContinue reading →

FEATURED EXHIBITIONS

‘Nature/Nurture’, Installation view, Giselle Hick and Tricia Zimic, 2020.

NATURE/NURTURE

Group Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary (North Adams, MA) | 2020 & 2021
Virtual Conference at
NCECA Rivers, Reflections, and Reinvention | 2021

Group exhibition of twelve contemporary female artists invited to explore the influence of gender and its impact on their practice.

View the Exhibition Page, HERE.

NEWS & FEATUERS

Giselle Hicks Featured in LVBX Magazine

GISELLE HICKS FEATURED IN LVBX MAGAZINE Meet Artist Giselle Hicks CULTURE, PROFILES JANUARY 20, 2020 Meet ceramics artist, Giselle Hicks. Her works are subtle and yet strongly moving in their simplicity and depth of...

Year in Review 2015

YEAR IN REVIEW 2015 A review of last year's highlights and trends with special thanks to all who made it possible with their art, interest, encouragement, and support. Click here...

Ceramic Top 40 | 2013

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…

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GARTH JOHNSON

GARTH JOHNSON

OUR AMERICA/WHOSE AMERICA?

2022 | Group Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary | North Adams, MA

Our America/Whose America? Is a “call and response” exhibition between contemporary artists and historic ceramic objects.

View the exhibition page HERE  & View the historic collection HERE

Featuring Manifest Destiny

IMPRINTED: Illustrating Race

2022 | Group Exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum | Stockbridge, MA

Imprinted: Illustrating Race examines the role of published images in shaping attitudes toward race and culture. Over 300 artworks and objects on view of widely circulated illustrated imagery will be on view, produced from the late eighteenth century to today, which have an impact on public perception about race in the United States. The exhibition will explore stereotypical racial representations that have been imprinted upon us through the mass publication of images. It culminates with the creative accomplishments of contemporary artists and publishers who have shifted the cultural narrative through the creation of positive, inclusive imagery emphasizing full agency and equity for all.

View the exhibition page HERE  & View the historic collection HERE

Featuring Manifest Destiny

MANIFEST DESTINY (CURRIER & IVES) SET


This series of altered Currier & Ives collector plates explores themes of westward expansion and American entitlement.

ADDITIONAL WORKS


American, b. in Lincoln, Nebraska
lives and works in Syracuse, NY

 

As a writer, curator, artist and educator, Garth Johnson is a self-described craft activist who explores craft’s influence and relevance in the 21st century. He is the Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. He was formerly the curator at the Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center. He also served as the artistic director at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, and was an associate professor at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California.

Johnson’s works celebrate the history of ceramic objects and their ability to convey status. He often juxtaposes common vessel forms like plastic containers and soap bottles with gold or silver handles taken from fine silver coffee and teapots.

ON HIS WORK

“My family has a huge problem with craft. My mother and father participated in just about every craft fad that I can remember. Wire art, macrame, and decoupage in the 70’s, and stained glass in the 80’s. My mother is an insane quilter, my Aunt Barbara a glass painter. One great-grandfather was a blacksmith, another collected and carved gemstones. I was born and raised on a farm in Nebraska, attended art school at the University of Nebraska, then got my MFA in ceramics at Alfred University. Craft has dogged me all my life. I love it, I hate it, I write about it because it seems totally alive to me. Craft hard!” – Garth Johnson

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STEVEN YOUNG LEE

STEVEN YOUNG LEE

Featured works


ARTWORK & INSTALLATIONS

SHATTERED DREAMS AND MOVEMENTS OF CHANGE



 

TIGER / TIGER AND MAGPIES



MELTING POINT

2021 | Group Exhibition at Ferrin Contemporary & Heller Gallery | North Adams, MA & New York, NY

Survey of a ​diverse ​group of artists whose use of the melting point is central to their practice.

 View the exhibition page HERE

Featuring Gourd Vases with Dodos


BLUE, RED, & WHITE CUP PANELS



STEVEN YOUNG LEE


ABOUT


American, b. 1975, Chicago, IL
lives and works in Helena, MT

Steven Young Lee has been the resident artist director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana since 2006. In 2004-05, he lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China as part of a one-year cultural and educational exchange in Jingdezhen, Shanghai and Beijing. In 2005-6 he was a visiting professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C.

Lee has lectured extensively in North America and Asia. In the Fall of 2016 he was one of four artists featured as part of the Renwick Invitational at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. In March 2013 he participated on a panel, “Americans in the Porcelain City,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Also in 2013, he was one of several international artists invited to participate in “New Blue and White,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA that featured contemporary artists working in the blue-and-white tradition of ceramic production. In 2019 he will have a solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum.

He is represented by the Duane Reed Gallery, Ferrin Contemporary and The Archie Bray Foundation Gallery. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian Museum, The Newark Museum, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Korea, as well as many private and public collections.

Lee received his BFA and MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University. Originally from Chicago, he lives in Helena with his wife, Lisa and their two children Gavin and Florence.

Steven Young Lee, “Cup Panels”, 2013, porcelain, copper inlay, glaze, shelving-glass, aluminum, 46 x 50 x 4″

ON RED, WHITE, AND BLUE CUP PANELS

This piece comprises three panels, each containing 100 hand-thrown porcelain cups in a ten-by-ten grid. It was originally created for installation at the Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York, NY. The cups are decorated with motifs appropriated from various cultures — Chinese, Korean, French, Dutch, English, etc. In the creation of all 300 cups, the patterns evolved from their original source throughout the process, paralleling the organic development of the visual language of historical pattern as it evolved with ethnic influence.
The title of the piece references three genres of decoration in ceramics — blue and white, red and white, and white on white, while also isolating the representation of color i.e. red, white, and blue to associate with contemporary connotations. In addition, the proportion of the panels correlates to a large color field painting that allows the various motifs to create a single homogenous color representation.
Lee chose to use cups as a vehicle for the decoration because of their status as an archetypal form. And as one of the more intimate ceramic forms, they are relegated to be a small but integral part of the structure of the installation. To reinforce the place of the cup in the whole, the cups are not sold individually, their meaning plays a more expanded role as part of a larger whole.

Janet Koplos reviewed a recent show of Lee’s at Greenwich House Pottery in Ceramics Art and Perception. Click here to read the article.

CURRENT + RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Counterpoint: Three Clay Artists

2023 | Korea Society | New York, NY
September 14 – December 8, 2023
View the exhibition page HERE

ARE WE THERE YET?

2023 | Ferrin Contemporary | North Adams, MA
July 15 – September 2, 2023
View the exhibition page HERE

Ferrin Contemporary, "Are We There Yet?", 2023, Exhibition Installation View with work by Chris Antemann, Steven Young Lee, Kadri Pärnamets, & Kurt Weiser, Photo by John Polak Photography

SELECT PAST EXHIBITIONS

CLAYSCAPES

Everson Museum of Art | Syracuse, NY
April 13 – October 20, 2024
Featuring Cristina Córdova, Paul Scott, & Steven Young Lee

NEWS & FEATURES

REVIVE, REMIX, RESPOND

THE FRICK PITTSBURGH 7227 Reynolds St., Pittsburgh, PA February 17–May 27, 2018 ABOUT THE EXHIBITION In 2017, twenty contemporary artists were invited to respond to and produce new works that...

NEW YORK CERAMIC & GLASS FAIR 2018

NYC&G FAIR 2018 Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY | January 18–21, 2018 Bringing together a carefully selected and distinguished international group of more than 25 galleries offering all things...

PORCELAINIA: East Meets West

PORCELANIA: East Meets West November 10–December 8, 2016 Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC EVENTS Talk and Reception with curator Leslie Ferrin and artist Paul Scott Talk Sunday, November 13, 2016,...

NEW YORK CERAMICS & GLASS FAIR 2017

ABOUT THE NYCGF New York Ceramics & Glass Fair Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY January 19–22, 2017 Click here for more Bringing together a carefully selected and distinguished international...

NEW YORK CERAMICS & GLASS FAIR 2016

ABOUT THE NYCGF January 21–24, 2016 Bohemian National Hall 321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021 HOURS Thursday to Saturday 11:00am–7:00pm Sunday 11:00am–4:00pm (no admittance Sunday after 3:30) EVENTS...

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BROOKE & JUSTIN ROTHSHANK

BROOKE & JUSTIN ROTHSHANK

ONLINE SHOP 
Click here to browse the full line of Rothshank pieces available. Other small works and catalogs are also available in our new online shop.

CURRENT + RECENT EXHIBITIONS

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LINDA SORMIN

LINDA SORMIN

SCULPTURES & INSTALLATIONS

LINDA SORMIN

(b. 1971, Bangkok, Thailand, lives and works in New York, NY)

Born in Thailand and raised in Canada, Linda Sormin’s ceramics-based installations explore uncertainty, risk, survival, and precarious and fragile structures. She is attentive to how humans seek stability in the midst of chaos and transition, how transformation occurs during times of upheaval, and how we hold onto the familiar through experiences of migration and change.

Sormin’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Patricia Sweetow Gallery (San Francisco, CA), CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art (Middelfart, Denmark), Jogja National Museum, (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Everson Museum, (Syracuse, NY), Bluecoat Art Gallery, (Liverpool, UK), National Gallery of Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia), McClure Gallery, (Montréal, Canada), Gardiner Museum (Toronto, CA), the West Norway Museum of Decorative Art, (Bergen, Norway), Denver Art Museum, (Denver, USA), and gl Holtegaard (Holte, Denmark). In 1993, Sormin completed her BA in English Literature at Andrews University followed by a ceramics diploma from Sheridan College in 2001. In 2003, she earned her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.  Sormin is Associate Professor of Studio Art at New York University.

ON NURTURE: RESHAPING RAGE (WHEN REVENGE MAKES PERFECT SENSE)

The intricate hand-work in my visual art process embodies traditional Buddhist practices in Thailand & Laos.  Living in both countries during my 20’s, I joined groups of women who created floral floats & wreaths in preparation for rituals and festivals.  Mounds of fragrant material – orchids, marigolds, jasmine blossoms, bamboo leaves, string and gold leaf – surrounded us as we pieced together objects that offered intricacy, meaning and function beyond the everyday.  My art practice is motivated by sensorial and poetic use of natural and found materials.

I experiment with the use and behavior of ceramics in the context of contemporary life and visual art.  Ceramics is alert and nimble, evolving with the changing needs of cultures and communities. Clay is most familiar as a material used in traditional making.  While deeply respecting these traditions, my curiosity and passion for working in clay spring from the mischief and delight I experience in inviting it to misbehave.

Toying with the rules of craft, I engage hands-on skill as language, subverting “fluency” and “correctness” in making.  I explore the “wrong” way of doing things, striving to decolonize ceramic language – to open up new possibilities for ceramic encounters.

I roll and pinch clay into forms that melt, lean, lurch and dare you to approach. Shards, souvenirs, test tiles and trash are collected into ceramic structures. Nothing is thrown away (this immigrant lives in fear of waste). Old yogurt is used to start a new batch. What is worth risking for things to get juicy, rare, ripe? What might be discovered on the verge of things going bad?

I push clay bodies beyond temperatures they are able to withstand.  In extreme heat, forms twist and slump – upright linear elements sway and “lose” their shape.  In my sculptures, I stop just before structure gives way – pausing at the point between construction and collapse.

Fracture, “unbuilding” and re-situating ceramics are part of my process in creating large scale, site-responsive installations.  Aggressive physical interactions with material and form embody the ways that humans de-construct and re-shape our lives in situations of upheaval, change and trauma.  My sculptures and installations alternately hold and release these points of tension and precariousness.

The title of my sculpture in this exhibition, Reshaping Rage (when revenge makes perfect sense), is drawn from a recent New Yorker interview of Judith Butler.  I am inspired by how Butler talks about rage as something that can be crafted:

“People in the world have every reason to be in a state of total rage. What we do with that rage together is important. Rage can be crafted—it’s sort of an art form of politics. The significance of nonviolence is not to be found in our most pacific moments but precisely when revenge makes perfect sense.” – Judith Butler Wants Us to Reshape Our Rage

The New Yorker, interview by Masha Gessen February 9, 2020

DIRECTOR NOTES ON LINDA SORMIN

“Due to the extended run of Nature/Nurture, we had the opportunity to reflect on paths taken, connections made and shared experiences in our weekly series of FC News & Stories with each issue focusing on an individual artist in the exhibition. The ON NURTURE statements written by each artist acknowledges family, artist mentors, education and for Linda Sormin, a growing context for her work “Reshaping Rage” conceived of and titled prior to COVID19.
My first introduction to Linda was in 2008 when she started teaching at RISD but I didn’t fully understand her work until I experienced it in person when I met her at Greenwich House Pottery to see her solo installation, My Voice Changes When I Speak Your Language. Arriving with deeply held preconceptions of tightly controlled pedestal presentations, my viewpoint was permanently altered by seeing her bold, ambitious and gravity-defying use of the earthbound material – clay.
“Sormin practices the art of the slow burn– both literally… and also figuratively, in that her sprawling installations communicate a carefully controlled fury. It is a vivid, visual chamber music, in which not a single note of pragmatism, didacticism or functionalism can be heard… The visitor is encouraged to wander through this ceramic wonderland as if through an ancient forest.” –Glenn Adamson
We are pleased to announce that Linda Sormin will be included in MASS MoCA’s upcoming exhibition Sculpture and the Possibilities of Clay opening fall 2021 curated by Susan Cross, senior curator.”   – Leslie Ferrin, 2020.

ON HER WORK

Linda Sormin, a leading installation artist, is known for pushing the extremes of material and concept. The large size and delicacy of her work challenge the clay’s intrinsic strength. She combines found and built objects with internal imagery in multiple complex forms. Scale, color, and variety of references expand in her work to create a layered unity made of disparate fragments.

“The site looms above and veers past, willing me to compromise, to give ground. I roll and pinch the thing into place, I collect and lay offerings at its feet. This architecture melts and leans, hoarding objects in its folds. It lurches and dares you to approach, it tears cloth and flesh, it collapses with the brush of a hand.

Nothing is thrown away. This immigrant lives in fear of waste. Old yogurt is used to jumpstart the new batch. What is worth risking for things to get juicy, rare, ripe? What might be discovered on the verge of things going bad?” — Linda Sormin

CERAMIC TOP 40

SURVEY EXHIBITION 2013 - 2015 | 3-City US TOUR ABOUT THE EXHIBITION CERAMIC TOP 40 Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios...

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TEAPOT COLLECTANEA

TEAPOT COLLECTANEA

TEAPOT COLLECTANEA

This eclectic collection is continually changing as new work is acquired or sold. Occasionally, older important pieces re-enter the market and we make many of them available here.

Curated by Leslie Ferrin, author of “Teapots Transformed: Exploration of an Object” , this collection offers a range of work from traditional, functional designs to conceptual contemporary constructions by both emerging and established artists. Ferrin’s understanding of the teapot genre assures that each of the pieces offered here makes a distinct contribution to this iconic form.

Teapots are complex objects steeped in history, world culture, and art. For collectors, they offer a wonderful study in contrast and variety. For artists, they present endless possibilities within the context of design, decoration, and scale. As a result, teapots have become objects through which potters, clay sculptors, artists in all media challenge their creative and technical abilities.  As subject matter, the familiar object is commonly represented in still lifes – incorporated into both two- and three-dimensional formats.

TEAPOTS TRANSFORMED by Ferrin Contemporary director, Leslie Ferrin, contains an in-depth exploration into the teapot as both utilitarian object and contemporary sculpture.

Full-color illustrations and supporting text takes artists, collectors, and tea drinkers on a delicious tour of this evolving art form.

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MARGARET PENNINGTON COLLECTION

MARGARET PENNINGTON COLLECTION

Ferrin Contemporary is pleased to present the Margaret Pennington Collection

This collection includes important historically documented works that surveys the field of contemporary studio sculpture and decorative art.

COLLECTION ARTISTS

Spanning the time period of 1954 to 2009, this encyclopedic selection includes works by 55 American artists.  It provides collectors and institutions the opportunity to add works with detailed provenance to their collections by the recognized masters of their mediums.

CERAMICS

Robert Arneson, Rudy Autio, Ralph Bacerra, Curtis Benzle, Fong Choo, Rick Dillingham, Ruth Duckworth, Jack Earl, Edward Eberle, Viola Frey, Wayne Higby, Margaret Israel, Jun Kaneko, Alan Lerner, Michael Lucero, Louis Marak, Graham Marks, Nancee Meeker, Ron Nagle, Richard Notkin, Elsa Rady, Don Reitz, Mary Roehm, Jerry Rothman, Adrian Saxe, Richard Shaw, Rudolph Staffel, Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Voulkos, Patti Warashina, Beatrice Wood, Betty Woodman, William Wyman

GLASS

Howard Ben Tre, William Carlson, Dale Chihuly, Susan Taylor Glasgow, Samuel J. Herman, Stephen Hodder, Joey Kirkpatrick, K. William LeQuier, Harvey Littleton, Flora Mace, Benjamin Moore, William Morris, Joel Philip Myers, Robert Palusky, Richard Ritter Jr., Ginny Ruffner, Therman Statom, Cappy Thompson, Mary Van Cline

WOOD

Jon Brooks, Wendell Castle, David Ellsworth, Mark Lindquist, Melvin Lindquist, Ed Moulthrop

OTHER

Jonathan Bonner, Joe Glasco, Carole Hetzel, June Schwarcz

Margaret Pennington Collection catalog

published in 2013 by Ferrin Contemporary, Cummington, MA

A thorough documentation of this historically important collection of sculpture and decorative arts spanning the last 50 years of the American 20th century.

• Introduction by Leslie Ferrin, Director, Ferrin Contemporary
• 112-page, full-color catalog

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Collection Artists

CERAMICS Robert Arneson, Rudy Autio, Ralph Bacerra, Curtis Benzle, Fong Choo, Rick Dillingham, Ruth Duckworth, Jack Earl, Edward Eberle, Viola Frey, Wayne Higby, Margaret Israel, Jun Kaneko, Alan Lerner, Michael Lucero, Louis Marak, Graham Marks, Nancee Meeker, Ron Nagle, Richard Notkin, Elsa Rady, Don Reitz, Mary Roehm, Jerry Rothman, Adrian Saxe, Richard Shaw, Rudolph Staffel, Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Voulkos, Patti Warashina, Beatrice Wood, Betty Woodman, William Wyman

GLASS Howard Ben Tre, William Carlson, Dale Chihuly, Susan Taylor Glasgow, Samuel J. Herman, Stephen Hodder, Joey Kirkpatrick, K. William LeQuier, Harvey Littleton, Flora Mace, Benjamin Moore, William Morris, Joel Philip Myers, Robert Palusky, Richard Ritter Jr., Ginny Ruffner, Therman Statom, Cappy Thompson, Mary Van Cline

WOOD Jon Brooks, Wendell Castle, David Ellsworth, Mark Lindquist, Melvin Lindquist, Ed Moulthrop

OTHER Jonathan Bonner, Joe Glasco, Carole Hetzel, June Schwarcz