Project Type: ARTIST CATALOG

14
Dec
2023
SERGEI ISUPOV: ALLIANCES Exhibition Catalog

SERGEI ISUPOV: ALLIANCES Exhibition Catalog

Ferrin Contemporary is proud to present new works from internationally renowned sculptor Sergei Isupov. SERGEI ISUPOV: ALLIANCES

Isupov’s artworks form alliances with one another as they move between media, explore scale, and are presented in curated exhibitions. Recent opportunities to create public works like his fire sculpture production and performances, along with solo exhibitions that show the full scope of Isupov’s creative versatility and process, have led to new works on paper, prints and wall installations combining ceramics with other materials.

  • Catalog release: December 1, 2023.
  • 15-page, full-color catalog
  • Installation Images & Artwork Highlights, All images by John Polak Photography
  • Exhibition Essay by Leslie Ferrin, Show Statements & Editorial by Ferrin Contemporary
  • Copyright© 2023 and published by Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
  • Design by Erica Pritchett.

Special thanks to co-curators, Paul McMullan, professor at Keene State College and Leslie Ferrin, director, Ferrin Contemporary and for editorial support by Alexandra Jelleberg, associate director, Ferrin Contemporary.

12
Oct
2023
COURTNEY M. LEONARD Exhibition Catalog

COURTNEY M. LEONARD Exhibition Catalog

COURTNEY M. LEONARD

COURTNEY M. LEONARD: Logbook 2004–2023 at The Heckscher Museum and BREACH: Logbook 23 | ROOT at Planting Fields Foundation | Exhibition Catalog

The Heckscher Museum of Art and Planting Fields Foundation have jointly published the first book about nationally recognized artist Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock, b. 1980). It represents both the retrospective exhibition COURTNEY M. LEONARD: Logbook 2004-2023 on view at The Heckscher Museum, and her site-specific installation at Planting Fields, BREACH: Logbook 2023|Root. The pages are filled with insights into Leonard’s sources of inspiration, creative processes, and original interpretations.

The 45-page softcover publication has a foreword by Shavonne F. Smith, Tribal Member, Environmental Director, Shinnecock Indian Nation, with prefaces by Gina J. Wouters, Ph.D., President & CEO of the Planting Fields Foundation, and Heather Arnet, Executive Director & CEO, The Heckscher Museum. Heckscher Museum Curator, Karli Wurzelbacher, Ph.D., engages Leonard in an insightful Q&A focused on the Museum’s retrospective exhibition. Emily Leger, Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Planting Fields, writes about Leonard’s site-specific installation. The book contains many beautiful color photographs of the artist’s exquisite artwork.

04
Jan
2023
Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay

Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay

Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay Catalog by Cristina CĂłrdova

Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay

Explore the human form in-depth, from concept sketches and armatures to detailed instructions for constructing legs, torso, arms, hands, and head from clay.

In Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay, renowned sculptor and instructor Cristina CĂłrdova teaches everything you need to know to replicate the full human figure using clay.
Start by developing meaningful sketches and reference points.

Then learn how to make and use an armature to create hollow forms that are safe to fire in a kiln.

Using patterns and slabs, you can move on to develop a full human form, head to toe.
Work along with the author to create a form about two feet tall, or choose your own size: the patterns and instructions can work in a variety of scales.

Photographic demonstrations and diagrams cover the construction and articulation of feet and legs, the hip area and upper torso, arms, hands, neck, and head. Cristina includes supplementary tips and insights throughout to support the sculpting process and enhance naturalism. You’ll also find a brief section on general anatomical concepts and modeling strategies to facilitate accuracy and expression as all the components come together.

Whether you are a clay artist with limited experience in figurative sculpture or a figurative sculptor outside the world of ceramics looking for a straightforward fabrication strategy to create permanent compositions from clay, Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay will expertly guide your way.

  • Publication Date: 2022, Quarry Books
  • Fully illustrated 192 pages
10
Apr
2020
CRYSTAL MOREY: Venus on the Waves Catalog

CRYSTAL MOREY: Venus on the Waves Catalog

CRYSTAL MOREY: Venus on the Waves Catalog

Crystal Morey’s “Venus on the Waves” exhibition catalog release: June 1, 2020.

Available now for $17.80, which includes domestic postage.

The 8.5 x 11″ booklet includes 16 beautiful pages of images and text from the “Venus on the Waves” exhibition
at Ferrin Contemporary in 2019.

  • Read more about the exhibition, HERE.
  • The book also includes a wonderful essay by writer Maria Porges, “Claiming Beauty: Crystal Morey’s Venus on the Waves”.

Excerpt from Maria Porges Essay:

All of Morey’s therianthropes have a kind of contained power, even when their poses might bely such a reading. A closer examination of the passive contrapposto of the standing figures in Three Gracesreveals a kind of watchful alertness. Positioned back to back around a tree stump, they are warriors creating a united defense. Rhino and mountain lion have their arms intertwined, but the gesture looks protective rather than girlishly affectionate. Alert, all three scan the horizon, dependent on each other for safety. As Morey has put it, “The rhino, mountain lion and human are all in danger of habitat loss, and extinction- although the human is just now realizing how delicate her situation is, and how dependent she is on the well -being of the creatures and environments around her.”

Like these three, Morey reminds us, all living creatures are connected. Multiple-figure compositions– a first for her—have enabled her to address increasingly complex issues. The result is a body of work in which several different meanings can be slowly unpacked, even as the immediate physical appeal of the figures provides pleasure. “You can come in at whatever level you want, but hopefully it will make you think about something you haven’t previously considered
 I don’t know if this work will make a change, but I hope it instigates a conversation.”

14
Apr
2019
MALCOLM WRIGHT: Moving Beyond Tradition

MALCOLM WRIGHT: Moving Beyond Tradition

MALCOLM WRIGHT: Moving Beyond Tradition

“Malcolm Wright, who is known by some as a functional potter and by others as a sculptor working in clay, is a consummate craftsman of both. He belongs to a group of contemporary ceramic artists who began as potters throwing vessels on the wheel, and then, seeking to move outside of that tradi- tion, found hand building as a way to broaden their artistic vocabulary.” — Susan Strickler

  • Publication Date: October 2018
  • 50 pages
  • Selected works presented in this catalog feature the sculptural capstones from Malcolm’s over 55-year artistic career and studio, The Turnpike Road Pottery, with an eloquent essay written by Susan Strickler, former director of the Currier Museum.
  • Available for purchase for $15.00
04
Jun
2018
Constructing Elozua: A Retrospective

Constructing Elozua: A Retrospective

Constructing Elozua: A Retrospective

 

This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Constructing Elozua: A Retrospective, 1973–2003” organized by the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, and presenting the work of sculptor Raymon Elozua.

Foreword by Mark Richard Leach
Essays by Garth Clark, Melissa G. Post, and Edward Leffingwell

126 full-color pages
$40

Click to see more of Elozua’s work. 

 

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03
Apr
2018
Sin-ying Ho: Past Forward

Sin-ying Ho: Past Forward

Sin-ying Ho: Past Forward
Exhibition Catalog

This marks Sin-ying Ho’s first museum exhibition with work drawn from those produced in her studios in both Jingdezhen, China, and New York.

“Sin-ying shares a worldview that acknowledges the inherent contradictions and challenges of global culture while also anticipating the uncanny beauty emerging all around us.”

Ho’s designs subtly blend Chinese and Western imagery and reflects her interest in the intersection of cultures and her engagement with her cultural identity. Ho takes her place in the global community of contemporary artists who use ceramics as the forms that host coded images that are used as a method of communication and social commentary.

Featuring an essay by Denise Patry Leidy and an Interview with the Artist: Sin-ying Ho in Conversation with John Stomberg.

Hood Downtown Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

16 pages
Click to see more of Ho’s work.

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01
May
2017
Raymon Elozua: Hubris: Images Made Flesh

Raymon Elozua: Hubris: Images Made Flesh

Raymon Elozua:
Hubris: Images Made Flesh

“Hubris” presents a juxtaposition of Elozua’s blurry photographic images with the precise, hard edges of his ceramic and steel sculptures. The photos recreate both a childhood nearsightedness and the deteriorating vision that comes with aging. “In 2016, I thought it would be interesting to take these photos and to replicate the glowing amorphous shapes in ceramic and steel. I was not successful, hence the title, ‘Hubris.’ Eyesight and clarity prevailed,” said Elozua of this body of work.

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30
Apr
2017
Raymon Elozua: R & D Sculptures 2014

Raymon Elozua: R & D Sculptures 2014

Raymon Elozua: R & D Sculptures 2014

In 2014, visual artist Raymon Elozua created a new body of mixed media sculpture, the R&D series, incorporating glass, ceramics, and steel. He received a Virginia A. Groot Foundation grant for this work. This catalog is a comprehensive documentation of this work.

$30

The 32-page, full-color catalog was published in 2014 by Encore Une Fois Press, Mountaindale, NY

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