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31
Dec
2021
HEY! LE DESSIN

HEY! LE DESSIN

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HEY! Le Dessin marks ten years of rich and intense collaboration with La Halle Saint Pierre museum. The four previous HEY! exhibitions – which took place in 2011/12, 2013, 2015 and 2019 -, probed the contemporary notion of alternative and singularity, highlighting the various ways in which certain artists actively work on the margins of visible or recognized fields. Each exhibition featured over sixty international artists, many of whom had not previously exhibited in France or Europe. The ideas of “mixing through gathering” and “resistance through imagination” have been, since the creation of HEY! modern art & pop culture in 2010, guiding lines that irrigate its actions. Originally only a system of research, transfer or study, drawing has demonstrated since the 15th century its capacity to become an autonomous work of art. Nowadays, contemporary graphic activity is livelier than ever, and is reflected in a considerable quantity of drawings, produced with a great diversity of tools. Dedicated to drawing, this 2022 edition involves hundred and thirteen artists from about twenty different origins, amounting to nearly four hundred works on show. Drawing practices are observed here in a flow of expressions with composite, collusive or characteristic energy; it is not looked at in its sole quality of drawing, but approached according to its poetics, and through points of passage such as drawing as matrix, intermediary means or rehabilitating gesture. The heterogeneous and intuitive nature of the main theme opens on other mediums, and invites to question the source of the inspiration animating the artist, his graphic impulse, and the course produced by the work to finally exist

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HEY! LE DESSIN

Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France | January 22 — December 31, 2022

HEY! Le Dessin, installation view with Sergei Isupov, 2022

SERGEI ISUPOV

Sergei Isupov, “Guardian”, 2009, sonteware, slip, glaze, 25.5 x 20 x 17.5″
Sergei Isupov, “Guardian”, 2009, stoneware, slip, glaze, 25.5 x 20 x 17.5″
Sergei Isupov, “Sight Unseen” 2015, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11 x 19 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Sight Unseen” 2015, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11 x 19 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Growth Rings” 2016, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 23 x 10 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Growth Rings” 2016, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 23 x 10 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Burden II”, 2021, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 15.5 x 15 x 6.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Burden II”, 2021, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 15.5 x 15 x 6.5″.

JASON WALKER

HEY! Le Dessin, installation view with Jason Walker, 2022
Jason Walker, “Bloom”, 2019, porcelain, underglaze, china paint, 26 x 26 x 9″.
Jason Walker, “Living in Between”, 2020, porcelain underglaze and concrete, 13.5 x 10.5 x 6″

Artists Include 113 international artists:

David B. /France
Murielle Belin / France
Sébastian Birchler / France
Conrad Botes / South Africa
Marcos Carrasquer / Spain, France
Thomas Chauzy / France
Farid Chitrakar / India
Ryan Travis Christian / USA
Léonard Combier / France
Dave Cooper / Canada
Alphonse Eugène Courson / France
Darco / Germany
Stéphanie Denaes Lucas / France
Jessy Deshais / France
Daniel Martin Diaz / USA
Marie Noël Döby / France
Janko Domsić / Croatia, France
John Robert Ellis / USA
Erdeven Djess / France
Anaïs Eychenne / France
Émile Simonet dit Fanfan / France
Feuilles dessinées de la Grande Guerre / France
Samuel Gomez / Dominican Republic
Pierre Guitton / France
Matti Hagelberg / Finland
Ali Hazri Wennstrom / Singapore, France
Jason Herr / USA
Daisuke Ichiba / Japan
Toshihiko Ikeda / Japan
Sergei Isupov / Russia, USA
Anton Kannemeyer / South Africa
Kraken/ France
Hongmin Lee / South Korea
Laurie Lipton / USA
Loïc Lucas / France
François Monchâtre / France
Mina Mond / France
Shaun Morin dit Slomotion / Canada
Serge Paillard / France
José Parlá / États-Unis
Joseph Vignes dit Pépé Vignes / France
Mark Powell / England
Prophet Royal Robertson / USA
Roger Rice / USA
Huston Ripley / USA
Ron Roboxo / Netherlands
Aurel Rubbish / France
Steeven Salvat / France
Victor Simon / France
Amanda Smith / USA
Victor Soren / France
Diamantis Sotiropoulos / Greece
Jacques Spacagna / France
Marcel Storr / France
Masakatsu Tagami / Japan
Ionel Talpazan / Roumania, USA
Rebecka Tollens / Sweden
Morris Vogel / Switzerland
Davor Vrankić / Croatia / France
Jason Walker / USA
Frédéric Rodolphe dit Wollan / USA, France

Sergei Isupov Artist Portrait, 2021, Photo Credit: John Polak

SERGEI ISUPOV

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Sergei Isupov is an Estonian-American sculptor internationally known for his highly detailed, narrative works. Isupov explores painterly figure-ground relationships, creating surreal sculptures with a complex artistic vocabulary that combines two- and three-dimensional narratives and animal/human hybrids. He works in ceramics using traditional hand-building and sculpting techniques to combine surface and form with narrative painting using colored stains highlighted with clear glaze.

Isupov has a long international resume with work included in numerous collections and exhibitions, including the National Gallery of Australia, Museum Angewandte in Kunst, Germany, and in the US at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Everson Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of Fine Arts–Boston, Museum of Fine Arts–Houston, Mint Museum of Art, and Racine Art Museum. In 2017, his solo exhibition at The Erie Art Museum presented selected works in a 20-year career survey titled Hidden Messages, followed by Surreal Promenade, another survey solo in 2019 at the Russian Museum of Art in Minnesota.

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Jason Walker Artist Portrait, 2019

JASON WALKER

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Jason Walker’s ceramic sculpture question how we perceive and decipher technology and nature within our changing world. He has exhibited and taught widely including at the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., Haystack Mountain School for the Crafts, Penland School for the Crafts, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China and the International Ceramics Workshop, Kecskemet, Hungary, South Korea, Ireland and France.

“The culture I live in does not emphasize our physical connection and dependence on nature. The current ideology is reliant upon technology, and it promotes disembodied activity such as television [and] computers . . . The gap between man-made and natural is ever-increasing.”

Walker has been awarded a 2009 NCECA International Residency Fellowship and a 2014 Artist Trust Fellowship from Washington State, as well as the Taunt Fellowship award at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. His work is included in collections at the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco: De Young, the Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, Arizona and the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon.

Walker received a BFA from Utah State University and a MFA from Penn State University and is represented by Ferrin Contemporary, and currently resides in Cedar City, Utah and is Lecturer of Ceramics at Southern Utah University.

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HEY! LE DESSIN, Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France, January 22nd, 2022 – December 31st, 2022

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Musee de la Halle Saint Pierre

Paris, France

MUSEUM OF ART BRUT – OUTSIDER ART & POP CULTURE 

Within a beautiful Baltard-style architecture, facing the gardens of the Butte Montmartre, the Halle Saint Pierre houses a museum and a gallery, a bookstore, an auditorium, a café. It is in this harmonious and luminous setting that the major temporary exhibitions and the multiple artistic and cultural activities dedicated to the most unexpected forms of creation are presented.

20
Jun
2020
ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture

ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture

ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Scultpure

Exhibiting in the US since 2019

ABOUT FACE: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture explores the lineage and influence between the revolutionary first generation of artists working in the figural genre and contemporary artists. The exhibition, curated by Jennifer Jankauskus, will investigate how history and place inform the work of contemporary ceramists bringing approximately 44 objects by 30 emerging, mid-career, and master artists from around the nation who work within a narrative figurative clay tradition. Creating both sculptural and relief objects, from busts to full figures, the artists all highlight the human form as a way to explore issues relating to the body, to various cultural ties, and to ideas of the female/male gaze.

“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Cristina Cordova
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Sergei Isupov
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020

Images courtesy of Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Art Museum of South Texas, and Figge Art Museum

ABOUT FACE | TOUR SCHEDULE

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EXHIBITION INCLUDES WORK BY

Wesley Anderegg
Robert Arneson*
Chris Antemann*
Rudy Autio*
Russell Biles*
Cristina Córdova*
Jack Earl*
Edward Eberle*
Sean Erwin*
Viola Frey*
Alessandro Gallo*
David Gilhooly *
Gerit Grimm *
Sergei Isupov*
Doug Jeck*
Howard Kottler*
Michael Lucero *
Walter McConnell
Gerardo Monterrubio
Jim Neel
Virgil Ortiz
Andrew Raftery
Allan Rosenbaum
Akio Takimori *
Yoshio Taylor
Tip Toland
Jason Walker *
Kurt Weiser *
Beatrice Wood *
Sun Koo Yuh

*indicates artists with available works for sale through Ferrin Contemporary

FEATURED ARTISTS

Chris Antemann, ‘Land of Milk and Honey, 2009, Porcelain, decals, luster, 19 x 19 x 15″.
Russell Biles, “Rake” 2017, hand built porcelain, 9.5 x 9 x8″.
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Cristina Cordova
Gerit Grimm, “The Sirens”, 2016, stoneware, 33 x 12 x 50″.
Sergei Isupov, Boxer, 2009, stoneware, stain and glaze, 26.5 x 24 x 17″
Kurt Weiser, “Random House (globe)” 2017, porcelain, glaze, china paint, metal, 30 x 14 x 14″.


Chris Antemann, ‘Land of Milk and Honey, 2009, Porcelain, decals, luster, 19 x 19 x 15″.
Russell Biles, “Child’s Play” 2016, hand built porcelain, 7 x 12 x5″
Russell Biles, “Gone Too” 2015, hand built porcelain, 6 x 7 x 17″.
Russell Biles, “Gone”, 2014, hand built porcelain, 14″ x 6 x 11″.
Russell Biles, “Rake” 2017, hand built porcelain, 9.5 x 9 x8″.
Cristina Córdova, “Cabeza III” 2018, ceramic, 13.5 x 9.5 x 4.75″
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Cristina Cordova
Sean Erwin, “Red Skies at Dawn” 2010, Porcelain and Earthenware, Glaze, stainless steel, wood, monofilament, fabric, dimensions variable.
Sean Erwin, “As I Lay Dying” 2016, Polished Porcelain, Glaze, Bonze, LED Lights, Acrylic, Duratrans Film Transfer, 1.8 RPM GearMotor, 20 x 26 x 26″
Alessandro Gallo, “Cocktail for Two” 2016, stoneware, mixed media, 24 x 23 x 15″.
Alessandro Gallo, “Cocktail for Two” 2016, stoneware, mixed media, 24 x 23 x 15″.
Alessandro Gallo, “My Two Cents” 2017, stoneware, mixed media, 10 x 14 x 6″.
Gerit Grimm, “The Sirens”, 2016, stoneware, 33 x 12 x 50″.
Sergei Isupov, “Risen” detail, 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 8′.
Sergei Isupov, “Risen” 2016, stoneware, slip, glaze, 8′.
Sergei Isupov, “Risen” detail, 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 8′.
Sergei Isupov, Boxer, 2009, stoneware, stain and glaze, 26.5 x 24 x 17″
Sergei Isupov, “Farangis” 2012, porcelain, slip, glaze, 14 x 10 x 6″.
Sergei Isupov, “To Live in the Clouds” 2000, ceramic, 10 x 17 x 5.5″.
Sergei Isupov, “Under Pressure” 2006, porcelain, 15 x 13 x 6″.
Doug Jeck, “Jekyll” 2013, ceramic, steel, 22 x 13 x 10″.
Sergei Isupov, “Motivation” 2016, porcelain, slip, glaze, 11.5 x 4 x 13″.
Kurt Weiser, “Random House (globe)” 2017, porcelain, glaze, china paint, metal, 30 x 14 x 14″.

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FEATURED FROM COLLECTIONS

“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood, “Not Married” 1965, clay, glaze, 16 x 17 x 13″.
David Gilhooly, “Chicago art critic forced to swallow a frog”, 1977, clay, 23.5 x 10 x 10.5″.
Viola Frey, “Untitled Platter”, 1982, earthenware, slip, glaze, 25″. photo: John Polak (Pennington)
Viola Frey, “Plate Full of Figurines (From the Bricolage Series), 1982, glaze, ceramic, 25 x 4”.
Rudy Autio, “Inside Looking Out” 1987–88, glaze, stoneware, 37 x 30 x 26″.
Rudy Autio, “Inside Looking Out” 1987–88, glaze, stoneware, 37 x 30 x 26″.
Jack Earl, “Another Bush, Another Stick of Wood” 1983, white earthenware, oil paint, 24.5 x 12 x 14.5″.
Michael Lucero, “Anthropomorphic Baby Form in Stroller (New World Series)” 1995, glaze, ceramic, carriage, 27 x 12 x 11″.
Michael Lucero, “Anthropomorphic Baby Form in Stroller (New World Series)” 1995, glaze, ceramic, carriage, 27 x 12 x 11″.

ABOUT FACE

 PAST PROGRAMMING

Curator Talk: Dr. Jennifer Jankauskas
Thursday, July 16
6:30 p.m. Virtual

Curator of Art at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and exhibition curator Dr. Jennifer Jankauskas, will discuss the artists and themes exhibited in About Face in a virtual presentation.

View Virtual Curator Talk • HERE •

Artist Panel

Thursday, August 20
6:30 p.m. talk

Local ceramic artists will give insight into the imagery and techniques used in the works featured in About Face.

FIGGE ART MUSEUM

Davenport, IA | June 20, 2020 – August 30 2020

About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020
About Face Installation at Figge Art Museum, 2020

ABOUT FACE

 PAST PROGRAMMING

ART MUSEUM OF SOUTH TEXAS

Corpus Christi, TX | January 24 – April 29, 2020

About Face at Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, TX January 24 – April 29, 2020
About Face at Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, TX January 24 – April 29, 2020
About Face at Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, TX January 24 – April 29, 2020

ABOUT FACE

 PAST PROGRAMMING

EXHIBITION CATALOG

Purchase the Catalog • HERE •

About Face is accompanied by a full-color catalogue with essays by exhibition curator, Jennifer Jankauskas, PhD, and Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and will be on view in the fourth-floor gallery through August 30, 2020.

MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

Montgomery, AL | February 2 – May 12, 2019

“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Cristina Cordova
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Sergei Isupov
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Sergei Isupov
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Cristina Cordova
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Sergei Isupov
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Installation view
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Installation view
“About Face”, Montgomery Museum of Art, 2019, Chris Antemann
19
Mar
2019
LOOKING WEST at The James J. Hill House in St. Paul, MN

LOOKING WEST at The James J. Hill House in St. Paul, MN

LOOKING WEST

at The James J. Hill House in St. Paul, Minnesota.

March 6th- April 7th, 2019

Reception: March 29th, 6-8pm

A group exhibition exploring themes of the American West through ceramic art

“Early America saw the Mississippi River as its western border. Looking West investigates the history, anthropologies, and landscapes of the American West through ceramic art.”

Within concept and visual, Looking West explores the current conversations taking place in and about the American West. Claytopia, (NCECA 2019 March 27th-30th) will reside on the geographical border of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota the same river that was the United States western border prior to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

Located inside the historical James J. Hill House at 240 Summit Ave in Saint Paul, Looking West will respond to the historical and contemporary conversations of the American West, including its traditions, history, landscape and cultural anthropologies. As the viewer walks the home, they are reminded of the vision James J. Hill had for Western Expansion and for the growth of the Great Northern Railway. The diversity of artists included will allow viewers to indulge in a dialogue that presents many various perspectives about what the West is now.

Artist Evan Hauser states, “With the rise of Industrial America comes a threat to wilderness and untouched landscapes. When looking at a National Park such as Yellowstone, we are confronted by land that is supposedly wild and natural. In reality, the lands within the park are somewhat of a construct as the wildlife is managed, fires are suppressed, and designated paths exist for the wandering tourist. This prescribed experience brings a foreseeable encounter that was once otherwise a land of discovery.”

 

ARTISTS:
Dylan Beck,
Jonathan Fitz
Evan Hauser*
Mitch Iburg
Ben Jordan
Dean Leeper
Crystal Morey*
Catherine Schmid-Maybach
Paul Scott *
Jason Walker *
Paige Nicolet Ward

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LOCATION:
240 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55102

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“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Paul Scott
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Paul Scott, 2015
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Evan Hauser, 2019.
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Evan Hauser, 2019
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Jason Walker, 2018.
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Jason Walker, 2018.
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Paige Nicolet Ward.
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Paige Nicolet Ward.
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Paige Nicolet Ward.
“Looking West” at the James J Hill House, Crystal Morey, 2019
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Grain Silo No. 2″, 2015, In-glaze decal, gold luster, J K Meakin ironstone platter c.1850, 13 x 18.25 x 1.75”.
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s), American Scenery, Fracked No. 8″, 2015 in-glaze decal collage, gold leaf, T&R Boote Syndenhall Shape, ironstone c. 1850, 16.5 x 11.75 x 1.25”.
Evan Hauser, “Preservation & Use (Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, Albert Bierstadt, 1869)” 2019, porcelain, digital ceramic print, gold leaf, 10.5 x 15 x 2.5″.
Evan Hauser, “Preservation & Use (A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie, Albert Bierstadt, 1866)” 2019, porcelain, digital ceramic print, gold leaf, 10.5 x 15 x 2.5″.
Crystal Morey, “Release the Winds” 2019, hand sculpted porcelain, 15 x 7 x 7″.
Crystal Morey, “Release the Winds” 2019, hand sculpted porcelain, 15 x 7 x 7″.
Crystal Morey, “Release the Winds” 2019, hand sculpted porcelain, 15 x 7 x 7″.
Jason Walker, “Osprey” 2018, porcelain, underglaze, luster, concrete, 11 x 14 x 6″.
Jason Walker, “Osprey” 2018, porcelain, underglaze, luster, concrete, 11 x 14 x 6″.
Jason Walker, “Osprey” 2018, porcelain, underglaze, luster, concrete, 11 x 14 x 6″.

 

29
Sep
2018
CANARY SYNDROME

CANARY SYNDROME

Canary Syndrome

September 27–November 4, 2018 at Ferrin Contemporary

Ferrin Contemporary is pleased to present Canary Syndrome, a group show featuring recent works by U.S. and U.K.-based artists including Elizabeth Alexander, Evan Hauser, Elliott Kayser, Stephen Young Lee, Beth Lipman, Livia Marin, Paul Scott, Bouke de Vries, and Jason Walker, on view Sept. 27 to Nov. 4. An opening reception will be held at Ferrin Contemporary, located at 1315 MASS MoCA Way, on Sept. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m., in conjunction with DownStreet Art, a program of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ Berkshire Cultural Resources Center. The reception is free and open to the public.

The exhibition, inspired by the saying “canary in the coal mine”, suggests that artists, much like the caged canaries once used by coal miners as early indicators of dangerous gases in tunnels, are hypersensitive to the adverse conditions and forces that jeopardize human existence. Through their artwork, the artists in Canary Syndrome employ visual means to accentuate threats to the health of the environment, culture, and ethics — really, the condition of civilization in general, and to warn of worse things to come.

The now-discontinued practice of carrying canaries deep into coal mines to detect carbon monoxide and other toxic gases dates back to 1911. The phrase “canary in the coal mine” is widely used as an allusion by whistleblowers sounding an early alert for broken systems and dangerous conditions. Al Gore used the phrase in reference to indicators of global warming in his book and film, “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”. The planet’s “canaries”, Gore said, are the melting polar icecaps, a result of increasing levels of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere.

“Ferrin Contemporary is presenting Canary Syndrome as both an opportunity to reflect upon fragile beauty as well as provide inspiration to fellow travelers who are facing an overwhelming sense of antipathy and futility in our world today,” said Gallery Director Leslie Ferrin. “It’s our hope that art and artists will motivate others and help to fuel a societal call to action.”

The diverse and thought-provoking artworks in the exhibition invoke ominous portents and herald a call for change on a global level. The works of Elizabeth Alexander, Elliot Kayser, Steven Young Lee, Beth Lipman, Livia Marin, Paul Scott, and Bouke de Vries explore the concept of the flaw, the crack, the mistake, and the resulting debris, within the delicate world of ceramics and fragile glass.

De Vries’s glass cloud is an assemblage of shards of glass from recognizable broken objects, forming a 21-inch-high mushroom cloud. Kayser uses glaze “blisters” on black cow figurines and Scott repurposes a 19th-century platter with the addition of a photo collage of Houston that memorializes Hurricane Harvey’s rising waters. Alexander, Lee, Lipman, and Marin work with processes that exploit melting, etching, breakage, and erasing to produce metaphoric imagery that is often a harbinger of doom. The artists reference forms and history associated with familiar domestic objects such as plates and figurines, along with pottery shards, to reveal something new, carrying a foreboding warning.

Artists in the exhibition who use imagery to deliver their message include Evan Hauser, whose use of ceramic decal prints of Hudson River School paintings applied to Styrofoam cooler lids, cast in porcelain, reexamines historic and cultural scenes in a contemporary context. Jason Walker explores the consequences of manifest destiny, referencing the inherent conflict between man and nature, with meticulous illustrations painted on porcelain sculptures of birds and fish, which he has combined with cast porcelain machine parts made from gears, conduit, and aerators, and used as formal elements.

“The very act of creating provides these artists with an outlet for the anxiety caused by relentless exposure to contemporary conflicts,” said Ferrin. “They are compelled to address environmental and societal issues through their practice and are sounding the alarm in the form of beautiful and compelling pieces of art.”

For more information about the exhibition and individual artists, see ferrincontemporary.com

Elizabeth Alexander
Evan Hauser
Elliott Kayser
Stephen Young Lee
Beth Lipman
Livia Marin
Paul Scott
Bouke de Vries
Jason Walker

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Canary Syndrome, Ferrin Contemporary, September 29 – November 4, 2018
Canary Syndrome, Ferrin Contemporary, September 29 – November 4, 2018
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”
Elliott Kayser, “Black Milk”, 2018, terra cota, underglaze, feldspathic chips, 10 x 20 x8″
Elizabeth Alexander, Canary Syndrome, 2018 Installation, photo by John Polak Photography
Jason Walker, “Osprey”, 2018, porcelain, underglaze, luster, and concrete, 11 x 14 x 6″
Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), The Syria Series No.9”, in-glaze decal collage and gold luster on partially erased broken plate/bowl c 1800’s, 12 x 10.5 x 2.75
Steven Young Lee, “Gourd Vases with Dodos”, 2018, porcelain, cobalt pigment, glaze, 18 x 19 x 10″
Evan Hauser, “The Tide of History: The Oxbow”, 2018, porcelain, digital ceramic print, wood, cement, steel, epoxy, 29 x 34 x 18″.
Beth Lipman, “Lapsed Concession”, 2018, glass, wood, enamel, adhesive, paint, 33 x 30 x 27″
Evan Hauser, “Preservation and Use #3 (Landscape with River, George Hetzel, 1880)”, 2018, porcelain, gold leaf, 62 x 42 x 2.5″

 

 

 

 

04
May
2017
BRIDGE 13: Jason Walker at Society for Contemporary Craft

BRIDGE 13: Jason Walker at Society for Contemporary Craft

Jason Walker at Bridge 13

on view through August 22, 2015
Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh,

Walker’s show features painted porcelain sculptures that depict the intersecting world where nature and technology meet. Painting on sculptures of woodland animals, Walker focuses on the landscape at the point where industrial elements impose on and merge into shared environments.

At the Walker is one of three artists with solo exhibitions in “Bridge 13.”

 

EVENTS

Thursday, April 16, at 6:30
ARTIST TALK
Carnegie Museum of Art theater

Walker will discuss the way technology has changed our perceptions of nature and how he combines animal imagery with industrial elements to convey these ideas.

Saturday, April 18, from 1 – 4pm
ARTIST WORKSHOP

Walker will discuss the works in the show followed by a hands-on workshop in SCC’s studio, giving participants a chance to try making ceramic objects.

Both events are co-sponsored by Society for Contemporary Craft and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
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Thursday–Saturday, April 16–18
WEEKEND WITH THE ARTIST

Join us for a weekend in Pittsburgh with Jason Walker

In addition to the Artist Talk and Workshop noted above, other events will include a studio visit with ceramic artist Edward Eberle, tour of ceramic collection at Carnegie Museum of Art, Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the museum and a guided house tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

Rooms have been set aside at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel for the weekend.
Call 412-562-1200 or click here to visit their website and use the code WALKER WEEKEND ROOM BLOCK when making your reservations.

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Cover of Bridge 13: Jason Walker print piece

BRIDGE 13: Jason Walker

This brochure, published by the Society for Contemporary Craft, includes biographical information on Walker as well as an essay by William L. Fox.

“A growing number of artists tread warily along the boundaries of culture and nature as the human footprint becomes increasingly obvious and inescapable, and the ironies multiply. … Walker’s work is a form of public prayer for our safety and preservation. How fortunate and useful it is that the sculptures are also beautiful.” — William L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

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Jason Walker, “Threadfin Jack” 2015, porcelain, underglaze, wood and spray paint, 12″ x 10″ x 19″.
Jason Walker, “Threadfin Jack” 2015, porcelain, underglaze, wood and spray paint, 12″ x 10″ x 19″.
Jason Walker, “Staring Into the Crystal Ball” 2015, porcelain, underglaze china paint, wood, spray paint, 15″x 10″ x 5.5″.
Jason Walker, “Staring Into the Crystal Ball” 2015, porcelain, underglaze china paint, wood, spray paint, 15″x 10″ x 5.5″.
Jason Walker, “Flash Flood” 2007, porcelain, 17 x 18 x 7″.
Jason Walker Red Bird at Bridge 13
Jason Walker, “Standing in the Grass” 2009, porcelain, underglaze, plastic tubing, resin, 19 x 20 x 7″
Jason Walker, “Standing in the Grass” 2009, porcelain, underglaze, plastic tubing, resin, 19 x 20 x 7″.
Jason Walker, “Wildflowers” 2015, porcelain, stoneware, china paint, wood, spray paint, 23 x 20 x 20″.
Jason Walker, “Wildflowers” 2015, porcelain, stoneware, china paint, wood, spray paint, 23 x 20 x 20″.
Jason Walker, “Wildflowers” 2015, porcelain, stoneware, china paint, wood, spray paint, 23 x 20 x 20″.
04
May
2017
A CLAY BESTIARY

A CLAY BESTIARY

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

September 27, 2014—January 4, 2015
Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

This ceramics exhibition focuses on the animal kingdom, offering visitors the opportunity to see real and imaginary creatures of all shapes and sizes in fresh and unique ways. The works chosen are not ‘”literal” representations or depictions of animals, but artists’ concepts and interpretations.

This group show includes the work of Ferrin Contemporary artists Jason Walker, Red Weldon Sandlin, and Sergei Isupov.

EVENTS

September 28, 2pm
Artist talk with Garth Johnson

Sergei Isupov, “Strong” 2011, porcelain, slip, glaze, 14.5 x 7.5 x 7.5″.
Garth Johnson, “The Shar-pei Immortals” 2010, porcelain, 11.5 x 6.5 x 6.5”.
Jason Walker, “City Animal: Squirrel” 2008, porcelain, underglaze, luster, 17 x 10 x 4″.
Sergei Isupov, “Future” 2011, porcelain, slip, glaze, 15.5 x 6 x 8″.
Red Weldon Sandlin, “The Hurtea Gurdy Tales: A Nickel for the Monkey” 2006, ceramic, wood, acrylic paint, 16.5 x 11.5 x 11″, book 1 x 12 x 9″.
Red Weldon Sandlin, “Mystic Caravans of Dragon’s Well… Chapter Four” detail, 2000, clay, wood, acrylic, 18.5 x 13 x 5.5″.
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May
2017
JASON WALKER: On the River, Down the Road at BAM

JASON WALKER: On the River, Down the Road at BAM

Jason Walker: On the River, Down the Road

October 3, 204–March 1, 2015
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA

A solo show of seven new, large-scale works

Northwest artist Jason Walker is widely celebrated for his skillfully executed ceramic sculpture. Treading a fine line between storytelling and social criticism, Walker’s work explores the human experience as reflected in Nature. His painted porcelain works, often taking the form of wild animals domesticated by industry, are simultaneously thought-provoking and unsettling. Bridging the dichotomous worlds of nature and technology represents, for the artist, “a journey to define for myself what it means to be human in the present time.” On the River, Down the Road is a site-specific installation created by Walker, who will transform the gallery into an enveloping, fantasy-driven world that—through richly detailed narratives and surrealist, apocalyptic imagery—offers an incisive comment on the indelible impact of humanity upon the natural landscape.

Jason Walker Cover

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“Jason Walker: On the River, Down the Road” installation exhibition at Bellevue Arts Museum, 2014
Jason Walker, “Redtail” 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint and concrete, 32 x 64 x 52″.
Jason Walker, “Redtail” 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint and concrete, 32 x 64 x 52″.
Jason Walker, “Redtail” 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint and concrete, 32 x 64 x 52″.
Jason Walker, “Mechanized Life: Yucca” 2007, porcelain, 30 x 7 x 7″.
Jason Walker, “Down the Road” installed at Bellevue Arts Museum, 2014, porcelain, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Down the Road” detail, 2014, porcelain, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Down the Road” detail, 2014, porcelain, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Cage Free Capitalism” installed at Bellevue Arts Museum, 2014, stoneware, porcelain, and china paint, 42 x 16 x 16″.
Jason Walker, “Cage Free Capitalism” detail, 2014, stoneware, porcelain, and china paint, 42 x 16 x 16″.
Jason Walker, “Cage Free Capitalism” detail, 2014, stoneware, porcelain, and china paint, 42 x 16 x 16″.
Jason Walker, “Split Down the Middle, but One Always Wants More” 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint and concrete, 9′ x 6′ x 45″.
Jason Walker, “Split Down the Middle, but One Always Wants More” detail, 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint and concrete, 9′ x 6′ x 45″.
Jason Walker, “Cascade” 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Cascade” 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Cascade” detail, 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Cascade” detail, 2014, porcelain, stoneware, underglaze, china paint, 10’x10’x10′.
Jason Walker, “Infinite Growth” detail, 2013, porcelain, china paint and glaze, 84 x 36 x 3″.
Jason Walker, “Infinite Growth” 2013, porcelain, china paint and glaze, 84 x 36 x 3″
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May
2017
CERAMIC TOP 40

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
November 1, 2013–January 25, 2014

CERAMIC TOP 40 | selected works
Office for the Arts, Harvard, Gallery 224, Alston, MA
presented by Ferrin Contemporary and the Ceramics Program
May 17–June 27, 2014

CERAMIC TOP 40 | selected works
Independent Art Projects
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
January–April 2015

Ceramic art is experiencing an evolutionary leap. Economic conditions and technological advances have caused a dramatic shift in the way contemporary ceramics are conceived, designed, produced, and marketed. Ceramic Top 40 is an exhibition that emerged from the need to document this defining time in contemporary ceramics. Taking a snapshot of this pivotal transition provides a look back at recent history, an understanding of these forces of change, and a glimpse into the future of ceramic art.

This survey exhibition features work by individual artists, collaborators, and design partners who are working on the cutting edge of current processes, ideas, and presentation concepts in conceptual utilitarian and sculptural ceramics. They are responding to the external forces of a changing world and, in turn, shaping those influences.

Jason Walker, “Infinite Growth”, 2013, porcelain, china paint and glaze, 84 x 36 x 3″
Doda Design: Aya Margulis & Rae’ut Stern, “Web Souvenirs” 2010-2013, earthenware, under glaze, glaze, gold luster, digital print, 148 x 42″.
Mark Cooper, “YuYu Kansas” 2013, installation using ceramic, wood, fiberglass, digital photography, rice paper, size variable.
Tip Toland, “Long Ago and Far Away”, 2008, stoneware, paint, pastel, synthetic hair, fiddle, bow, 78 x 31x 30″. Courtesy of Barry Friedman Ltd.
Linda Sormin, “List”, 2013, ceramic, found materials, 16 x 23 x 15″
Susan Beiner, “Germinating Domes”, 2012, porcelain, acrylic rods, foam, thread, 40 x 46 x 45″

CERAMIC TOP 40 CATALOG

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EXHIBITING ARTISTS

CERAMIC TOP 40 ARTISTS

Susan Beiner •  Robin Best  •  Stephen Bird  •  Stephen Bowers  •  Jessica Brandl  •  Andy Brayman  •  Beth Cavener  •  Craig Clifford  •  Mark Cooper  •  Cristina Cordova  •  Guy Michael Davis (Future Retrieval)  •  Thomas Lowell  Edwards  •  Michelle  Erickson  •  Sean Erwin  •  Leopold Foulem  •  Alessandro Gallo  •  Misty Gamble  •  Gerit Grimm  •  Rain Harris  •  Giselle Hicks  •  Peter Christian Johnson  •  Brian R. Jones  •  Ryan LaBar  •  Steven Young Lee  •  Linda Lighton  •  Daniel Listwan  •  Lauren Mabry • Aya Margulis (Doda Design)  •  Walter McConnell •  Sara Moorhouse  •  Ron Nagle  •  Katie Parker (Future Retrieval)  •  Kate Roberts  •  Stephanie Rozene   •  Anders Ruhwald   •  Michael Schwegmann  •  Paul Scott  •  Richard Shaw  •  Adam Shiverdecker  •  Bobby Silverman  •  Linda Sormin  •  Shawn Spangler  •  Vipoo Srivilasa  (The Spoon Project)  •  Dirk Staschke  •  Rae’ut Stern (Doda Design)  •  Emily Sudd  •  Tip Toland  •  Clare Twomey  •  Shaleene Valenzuela  •  Jason Walker

VIPOO SRIVILASA | OBJECT: SPOON  |  Liz Burrit  •  Thomas Cheong  •  Naomi Clement  •  Jenn Demke-Lange  •  Jason Desnoyers  •  Krisaya Luenganantakul  •  Laura McKibbon  •  Noriko Masuda  •  Teo Huey Min  •  Jun Myoung  •  Aaron Nelson  •  Joshua Primmer  •  James Seet  •  Vipoo Srivilasa  •  Jenna Stanton

CERAMIC TOP 40
Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, MO
presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios
November 1, 2013–January 25, 2014

CERAMIC TOP 40 | selected works
Office for the Arts, Harvard, Gallery 224, Alston, MA
presented by Ferrin Contemporary and the Ceramics Program
May 17–June 27, 2014

CERAMIC TOP 40 | selected works
Independent Art Projects
1315 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA
January–April 2015

Susan Beiner, “Germinating Domes”, 2012, porcelain, acrylic rods, foam, thread, 40 x 46 x 45″
Jessica Brandl, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 2013, terracotta, 28 x 34 x 10″.
Andy Brayman, “Vase with Orange and Blue” (left), 2013, porcelain, glaze, decals, 19 x 10 x 7″. “Black Vase with Yellow and Green” (right), 2013, porcelain, glaze, decals, 17.5 x 10 x 7″
Beth Cavener, “Obariyon”, 2013, stoneware, antique hooks, 17 x 46 x 30″
Craig Clifford, “Flush” 2013, earthenware, casting slip, 10 x 16 x 5″.
Mark Cooper, “YuYu Kansas” 2013, installation using ceramic, wood, fiberglass, digital photography, rice paper, size variable.
Doda Design: Aya Margulis & Rae’ut Stern, “Web Souvenirs” 2010-2013, earthenware, under glaze, glaze, gold luster, digital print, 148 x 42″.
Misty Gamble, “Indulgence” and “Succulence” 2012, ceramic, variable size.
Walter McConnell, “A Theory of Everything: White Corner”, 2011-13, porcelain, glaze, plywood, 77 x 39 x 39″
Kate Roberts, “The Space Between You and Me”, 2011, colored porcelain, mirror, tulle, 96 x 60 x 6″
Stephanie Rozene, “The Politics of Porcelain” 2011, porcelain, glaze, 48 x 156″.
Adam Shiverdecker, “Banquet Series: Red Krater 1″ 2013, stoneware, nichrome, steel, 14 x 12 x 14”
Dirk Staschke, “My Beautiful Nothing” 2010, ceramic, mixed media, 96 x 21.75 x 126″. Courtesy of Wexler Gallery
Clare Twomey, “Is It Madness. Is It Beauty.” 2010, video.
Jason Walker, “Infinite Growth”, 2013, porcelain, china paint and glaze, 84 x 36 x 3″
Future Retrieval: Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker, “Grand Theft Lion” 2013, porcelain, china paint, grammertry, rapid prototying, 11 x 8 x 7″.
Future Retrieval: Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker, “Grand Theft Lion” 2013, Future Retrieval: Guy Michael Davis and Katie Parker, “Grand Theft Lion” 2013, porcelain, china paint, grammertry, rapid prototying, 11 x 14 x 7″.
Brian R. Jones, “Alembic (Letter B)” 2012, earthenware, slips, glaze, plywood, milk paint, 18 x 18 x 3″.
Brian R. Jones, “Alembic (Letter B)” 2012, earthenware, slips, glaze, plywood, milk paint, 18 x 18 x 3″.
Rain Harris, “Florem Vernum” 2013, wood, black clay, resin, silk flowers, 21 x 13 x 12″.
Giselle Hicks, “And Then It Was Still, II” 2012, porcelain, glaze, wood, 50 x 60 x 24″.
Stephen Bird, “Persian Blue Shoot Out” 2012, earthenware, pigment, glaze, 15.75 x 19.75″. Courtesy Garis and Hahn Gallery.
Stephen Bird, “Adam and Eve with Eyes and Spoon” 2013, earthenware, pigment, glaze, 7.25 x 9 x 2″, photo courtesy Garis and Hahn Gallery
Stephen Bird, “Majolica Shoot Out” 2012, earthenware, pigment, glaze, 15.75 x 19.5″. Courtesy Garis and Hahn Gallery.
Stephen Bird, “What Picasso Called an Erection for the Eyes” 2012, earthenware, pigment, glaze, 11.5 x 8 x 2.5″. Courtesy Garis and Hahn Gallery.
Steven Young Lee, “Cup Panels” (red), 2013, porcelain, copper inlay, glaze, glass shelving, aluminum, 46 x 50 x 4″
Steven Young Lee, “Cup Panels” (white), 2013, porcelain, white slip, glaze, glass shelving, aluminum, 46 x 50 x 4″
Steven Young Lee, “Blue Cup Panel” 2013, porcelain with cobalt inlay, 46 x 50 x 4″
Steven Young Lee, “Vase with Scroll Pattern”, 2013, porcelain, copper inlay, 14 x 19 x 9″
Peter Christian Johnson, “Ovoid #3″ 2013, ceramic, glaze, steel, 21.5 x 62 x 7”.
Peter Christian Johnson, “Blue X” 2014, ceramic, 16.5 x 16.5 x 5″.
Shalene Valenzuela, “Easy Vac: Always in Fashion” 2011, porcelain, underglaze, print transfer, 42 x 11x 14″.
Shalene Valenzuela, “Dressform” 2012, porcelain, underglaze, pins, wooden stand, 56 x 14 x 8″.
Shalene Valenzuela, “Follow the Pattern: Bathroom Vanity” 2012-13, porcelain, underglaze, print transfer, 15 x 21 x 2″.
Michelle Erickson, “Green Squirrel” (left), “Second Amendment Squirrel” (right), 2013, indigenous clay, glaze, 8″.
Michelle Erickson, “Pectin Shell Teapot” 2005, porcelain, jasperware, metallic oxide, underglaze, slip, glaze, gold enamel, 14″.
Sean Erwin, “Adoration of the Golden Calf” 2013, polished porcelain, glaze, steel, resin, cast cement, LED lights, glass, flocking, 9 x 10 x 22″.
Sean Erwin, “The Ego and the Id” 2013, polished porcelain, glaze, steel, resin, cast cement, LED lights, glass, flocking, 13 x 8 x 22″.
Bobby Silverman, “Decision Before Action” 2011, clay, commercial tile, 36 x 28 x 1/2″.
Bobby Silverman, “4 Versions of Red (1)” 2012, re-fired commercial porcelain tiles, 12 x 12″ each.
Robin Best, “The Wallace Line”, 2013, porcelain, onglaze, 8 x 4″
Stephen Bowers, “Explorers’ Skulls” 2010, ceramic, underglaze, stains, 5.25″.
Cristina Cordova, “Codigo I”, 2013, ceramic, 10.5 x 6 x 6″. Courtesy Barry Friedman Ltd.
Thomas Lowell Edwards, “Ridge” 2012, concrete, porcelain, 26 x 13 x 3″.
Leopold Foulem, “Boy with Cape on Empire Style Stand” 2012, ceramic, found object, decal, gold luster, 16.5 x 5 x 4.5″. Courtesy of David Kaye Gallery
Alessandro Gallo, “Scripta elegans” (tarantula), 2011, clay, acrylics, 15.75 x 13.75 x 13″
Gerit Grimm, “Tango” 2012, stoneware, 26 x 17 x 9″
Ryan LaBar, “The Subconscious Shelf” 2011, porcelain, stoneware, 25 x 28 x 22″.
Linda Lighton, “Cause and Effect” 2012, whiteware, glaze, 23 x 25 x 22.5″.
Daniel Listwan, “Biohazard Jasperware: Wedgwood Blue Series” 2013, colored porcelain, tallest: 10″
Lauren Mabry, “Composition of Enclosed Cylinders”, 2013, red earthenware, slips, glaze, 20 x 17 x 6″
Sara Moorhouse, “Large Pulse” 2013, earthenware, underglaze, glaze, 18 x 7″
Ron Nagle, “Snuff Bottle”, 2013, porcelain, glaze, 6 x 2.5 x 2.5″. Courtesy Jeffrey Spahn Gallery.
Anders Ruhwald, “Lamp” 2005-10, earthenware, socket, plug, shade, bulb, 50 x 14 x 14″
Michael Schwegmann, “Ball and Chain”, 2013, porcelain, glaze, 9 x 9 x 38″
Paul Scott, “Cumbrian Blue(s): Crooklands Cow in a Meadow”, 2007/2013, earthenware, tin glaze, bone china platter, inglaze decals, gold lustre, 15.75″
Richard Shaw, “Still Life with Open Drawer” 2013, porcelain, decals, 33 x 13.5 x 14″.
Linda Sormin, “List”, 2013, ceramic, found materials, 16 x 23 x 15″
Shawn Spangler, “Ewer and Salt Cellar with Digital Print” 2013, porcelain, acrylic, paper, digital print by Bryan Czibesz, variable size.
From OBJECT: SPOON 2013, Vipoo Srivilasa, “Spoon of Contentment”, 2013, porcelain, 3 x 16 x 7″.
Emily Sudd, “Untitled”, 2012
Tip Toland, “Long Ago and Far Away”, 2008, stoneware, paint, pastel, synthetic hair, fiddle, bow, 78 x 31x 30″. Courtesy of Barry Friedman Ltd.
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2017
UNCANNY CONGRUENCIES

UNCANNY CONGRUENCIES

Uncanny Congruencies

September 10–December 15, 2013
Palmer Museum of Art

A group exhibition including Christa Assad, Jason Walker, and other artists.

The power of art is often found in those uncanny spaces between formal abstraction and the narratives of representation. Inseparable parts of a more complex whole, the form of abstraction and the content of representation are the collaborative conditions that have created the most compelling works of art since antiquity. Uncanny Congruencies investigates these elliptical crisscrossings, and offers a nuanced dialogue with its audiences through the seemingly dissimilar work of eighteen alumni of the Penn State School of Visual Arts—all of which intersects and dialogues with one another in surprising ways.

The tyranny of certainty and the increasing fear of ambiguity in our age of instant messaging and immediate gratification are challenged by the exhibition’s curatorial invitation to see beyond the obvious. Viewers are encouraged to engage with works of art in relation to one another. Where do these disparate sensibilities intersect and connect? More important, how do these artists distinguish themselves in our highly complex and competitive world?

Uncanny Congruencies is being presented as part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State and was guest co-curated by Micaela Amateau Amato, professor emerita of art and women’s studies. The exhibition and related events are being co-sponsored by the Palmer Museum of Art and the School of Visual Arts at Penn State.

Artists in the exhibition include Brian Alfred, Cara Judea Alhadeff, Christa Assad, Kenn Bass, Judith Bernstein, Gerald Davis, Robert Ecker, Suzan Frecon, Krista Hoefle, Marina Kuchinski, Helen Harrington Marden, Beverly McIver, Tim Roda, Malcolm Mobutu Smith, Allen C. Topolski, Jason Walker, Henry Wessel, and David W. Young.
Christa Assad and Jason Walker are represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

Jason Walker, “Expecting” 2010, porcelain, underglaze, 15 x 9 x 10″.
Jason Walker, “Standing in the Grass” 2009, porcelain, underglaze, plastic tubing, resin, 19 x 20 x 7″.
Jason Walker, “Desert Frog” 2008, porcelain, underglaze, 21 x 10 x 10″.
Christa Assad, “Detroit River” 2011, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 8.5 x 10 x 7″.
Christa Assad, “Benxi, China” 2011, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 7 x 10 x 7″.
Christa Assad, “North Sea Canal” 2011, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 9 x 11.5 x 7″.
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May
2017
Jason Walker at Ceramic Biennalie 2017 in Korea

Jason Walker at Ceramic Biennalie 2017 in Korea

JASON WALKER in Korean Biennale

Jason Walker is an invited artist in “Story Telling: About Life” at the 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2017 in Korea, presented by the Korea Ceramic Foundation (KOCEF) from April 22 to May 28, 2017 at Icheon World Ceramics Center in Icheon Cerapia, Gyeonggi Province.

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