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01
Jun
2021
MELTING POINT

MELTING POINT

HELLER GALLERY

303 10th Avenue, New York, NY

FERRIN CONTEMPORARY

1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams MA

June 24 to September 25, 2021

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

The Melting Point is the degree when solid becomes soft, eventually becoming liquid and a boiling point is reached. Glaze melts, clay and glass soften, surface and form become pliable. This exhibition surveys a ​diverse ​group of artists whose use of the melting point is central to their practice.

Used metaphorically, as the planet warms we are finding ourselves closer to the melting point both physically and socially. In 2020, forces combined under pressure of the COVID virus, politics exploded and nature responded with melting ice, raging fires and extreme weather. Likewise, artists use the melting point as a metaphor in their work to express their political beliefs and sound the alarm using the fragile materials of glass and ceramic.

The exhibition is ​a ​collaboration​ between Ferrin Contemporary in North Adams, MA on the MASS MoCA campus and ​Heller Gallery, located in the Chelsea Art District of New York City​. The co-curators and gallery directors are renowned specialists in their fields, Leslie Ferrin (ceramics) and Katya Heller (glass).

VIEW THE EXHIBITION CATALOG HERE

PRESENTATION at Ferrin Contemporary

"Melting Point" Installation view with Lauren Mabry, 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Lauren Mabry, 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Lauren Mabry's "Glazescapes", 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Lauren Mabry’s “Glazescapes”, 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view, 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view, 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Tom Patti (back and center) & Sally Silberberg (front), 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Tom Patti (back and center) & Sally Silberberg (front), 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view, 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view, 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view, with Nancy Callan (left and left center) & Laura Kramer (right) 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view, with Nancy Callan (left and left center) & Laura Kramer (right) 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view, 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view, 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Amber Cowan, 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Amber Cowan, 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view, 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view, 2021
Norwood Viviano, "Cities Underwater: Three Sites | Norfolk, Boston, St. Petersburg", 2019-21, blown glass, vinyl cut drawings, 15 x 48 x 10".
Norwood Viviano, “Cities Underwater: Three Sites | Norfolk, Boston, St. Petersburg”, 2019-21, blown glass, vinyl cut drawings, 15 x 48 x 10″.

PRESENTATION at Heller Gallery

"Melting Point" Installation view with Nancy Callan at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Nancy Callan at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Pamela Sabroso & Alison Siegel (left), Raymon Elozua (center), & Nancy Callan (right) at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Pamela Sabroso & Alison Siegel (left), Raymon Elozua (center), & Nancy Callan (right) at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Amber Cowan at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Amber Cowan at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Morten Klitgaard at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Morten Klitgaard at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Sydney Cash at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Sydney Cash at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Paul Scott (left), Steven Young Lee (center), & Norwood Viviano (right) at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Paul Scott (left), Steven Young Lee (center), & Norwood Viviano (right) at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Courtney Leonard at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Courtney Leonard at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Courtney Leonard at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Courtney Leonard at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Lauren Mabry at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Lauren Mabry at Heller Gallery 2021
"Melting Point" Installation view with Robert Silverman at Heller Gallery 2021
“Melting Point” Installation view with Robert Silverman at Heller Gallery 2021

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

CERAMIC

Raymon Elozua, "Tri-Harmonic S.2", 2018-19 04 Terra cotta, steel, hand blown glass, and mirror (detail)

RAYMON ELOZUA

Future Retrieval, "After Kandler, Tureen", 2020, porcelain, 14.5 x 16 x 10"

FUTURE RETRIEVAL

Peter Christian Johnson, "Vessel with Yellow Racing Stripes", 2018, porcelain, 8.5 x 5.5. x 5.5"

PETER CHRISTIAN JOHNSON

Steven Young Lee, "Gourd Vases with Dodos", 2018, porcelain, cobalt, pigment, glaze, 18 x 19 x 10"

STEVEN YOUNG LEE

Courtney Leonard, "Nebulous Studies", detail, 2021

COURTNEY M. LEONARD

Lauren Mabry, "Glazescape (Double White)", 2021, red earthenware, slip, glaze, 26.5 x 27 x 9"

LAUREN MABRY

Greg Moore, "52 Bone China Cups", 2021, 3 x 23 x 30"

GREGG MOORE

Paul Scott, "Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Souvenir of Shiprock", detail, 2019, in-glaze screen print (decal) on salvaged Syracuse China with pearlware glaze, with uranium glass, 12 x 12 x 1"

PAUL SCOTT

Sally Silberberg, "Blue Striae", 1988-2019, porcelain, enameled wooden base, 15 x 12 x 12.5".

SALLY SILBERBERG

Robert Silverman, "Vase (5)", detail, 2021, glazed porcelain, 13 x 6 x 6"

BOBBY SILVERMAN

GLASS

Stine Bidstrup, 'Bifurcation Series (Object 2 - Black & White)', detail, 2017, fused and stretched glass, 19 x 6.25 x 5.5"

STINE BIDSTRUP

Nancy Callan, "Ebb Tide", 2020, glass, 16.5 x 28.75 x 1"

NANCY CALLAN

Sydney Cash, "Peach Pie", detail, 2006, glass, steel wire, 7 x 7 x 7"

SYDNEY CASH

Amber Cowan, "Bridesmaid Returns to Her Shore of the Full Moon", 2019, glass, 32 x 22 x 9.5"

AMBER COWAN

Laura Kramer, "Tourmaline", 2018, glass, 16.5 x 12 x 12"

LAURA KRAMER

Morten Klitgaard, "Oro-Yellow 0319", 2020, glass, 12.5 x 11.75 x 11.75"

MORTEN KLITGAARD

Beth Lipman, 'Lapsed Concession', detail, 2018, glass, wood, enamel, adhesive, paint, 33 x 30 x 27″

BETH LIPMAN

Tom Patti, "Compacted Bi-Planular Bronze", 1985, glass, 4.5 x 6.5 x 2.25"

TOM PATTI

Sabroso & Siegel, "Tube Pile", detail, 2017, glass, rubber, 17.25 x 12 x 13"

PAMELA SABROSO & ALISON SIEGEL

Norwood Viviano, "Cities Underwater", detail, photo by Cathy Carver

NORWOOD VIVIANO

PAST PROGRAMMING

PUBLIC EVENTS

Receptions

Thursday, June 24, 2021,
5:00pm – 8:00pm
at Heller Gallery

Saturday, July 24, 2021,
3:00pm – 5:00pm
at Ferrin Contemporary

VIDEO | PUBLIC RECEPTION | 7.24.21
 exhibit tour and artist talk featuring Sydney Cash, Gregg Moore, Bobby Silverman, Raymon Elozua, Sally Silberberg, and Tom Patti

VIDEO | CURATOR CONVERSATION | 9.15.21
 Rising Waters artist talk featuring Courtney M. Leonard, Paul Scott, and Norwood Viviano, moderated by Jami Powell, PhD

SELECT PRESS

PRESS RELEASE | update | 8.30.21

PRESS RELEASE | update | 7.24.21

MELTING POINT in the Boston Globe
8.5.21 Cate McQuaid gives a quick glance at the exhibition in The Ticket section of The Boston Globe.

Arriving at the MELTING POINT in Destination Williamstown
7.20.21 Destination Williamstown interviews Ferrin Contemporary Director Leslie Ferrin and gets to the historical heart of MELTING POINT.

Have we reached the Melting Point?
Climate change, social injustice explored in ceramic, glass works at Ferrin Contemporary.
7.16.21 Jennifer Huberdeau of The Berkshire Eagle reviews MELTING POINT.

BUSINESS MONDAY: Did people buy art during COVID? 
6.28.21 Julia Dickson of The Berkshire Eagle reports on a “difficult but successful” year for Berkshire gallerists.

29
May
2019
DERIVED FROM THE DECORATIVE: Works by Faig Ahmed, Beth Lipman and Bouke de Vries at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens

DERIVED FROM THE DECORATIVE: Works by Faig Ahmed, Beth Lipman and Bouke de Vries at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens

DERIVED FROM THE DECORATIVE: by Faig Ahmed, Beth Lipman and Bouke de Vries

February 2, 2019 – June 9, 2019

Cheekwood Estate and Garden, Nashville, Tennessee

In the spring of 2019 Cheekwood will present an exhibition featuring work by Faig Ahmed (Baku, Azerbaijan), Beth Lipman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and Bouke de Vries (Utrecht, the Netherlands). The exhibition consists of artists and designers who take cues from decorative arts traditions yet invert the precepts by blurring the space between functional forms and art forms. The exhibition will celebrate the work of a national and international group of artists who look at traditional decorative arts as a point of departure for contemporary creations. The artists in this show challenge the idea of historically informed notions of craft and provide a contemporary entry point into the space between fine and decorative art. Through recognizable visual traditions, the works destabilize perceptions of the familiar. Integrating traditional fabrication methods along with digital contributions, the exhibition will present works that embrace a wide spectrum of time.

Click to view more work by BOUKE DE VRIES.

Click to view more work by BETH LIPMAN

 

 

“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
“Derived from the Decorative”, Cheekwood Estates and Gardens, 2019, Nashville, TN
Beth Lipman, “Still Life with Plate of Cheese and Stein” 2011, c-print, face mounted to acrylic, 39 x26″.
Beth Lipman, “Lapsed Concession”, 2018, glass, wood, enamel, adhesive, paint, 33 x 30 x 27″
Beth Lipman, ‘Lapsed Concession’ 2018, glass,glass, wood, enamel, adhesive, paint, 33 x 30 x 27″
Beth Lipman, “Vessel with Handles and Bowl of Eggs” 2015, c-print, face mounted to acrylic, 32 x 29″
Bouke de Vries, “Glass Cloud 2″, 2017, 17th and 18th Dutch archaelogical glass fragments, mixed media, 21.5 x 13 x 13”
Bouke de Vries, “Glass Cloud 2″, 2017, 17th and 18th Dutch archaelogical glass fragments, mixed media, 21.5 x 13 x 13”
Bouke de Vries, “Peacock 1″ 2016, twentieth-century Chinese porcelain bird, eighteenth-century Chinese porcelain fragments, mixed media, 24 x 13.5 x 25”.
Bouke de Vries on view at Ferrin Contemporary, 1315 MASS MoCA Way in North Adams, MA
Bouke de Vries, “Memory Vessel de Nyon” 2014, late 18th century Nyon porcelain teapot and mixed media, 13 x 10 x 9″.
Bouke de Vries, “Fragmented Vase 2”, 2 Chinese Song dynasty vases, 18th and 19th century Chinese porcelain and glass. 22.75 x 9.75 x 7.75″
Beth Lipman, “Bottles and Flora” 2015, c-print, face mounted to acrylic, 22 x 31″.
Beth Lipman, “Sticks Pitcher and Chain” 2011, c-print, face mounted to acrylic, 29 x 37″