Project Type: PAST

23
Oct
2024
SERGEI ISUPOV: Ancestor

SERGEI ISUPOV: Ancestor

Anderson Gallery

Bridgewater State University

40 School Street
Bridgewater, MA

November 1 – February 24, 2025

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Sergei Isupov presents Ancestor, a dramatic solo exhibition featuring masterworks of figural sculpture at Anderson Gallery at Bridgewater State University. The installation creates a dialog between Isupov’s large busts and figural sculptures along with a web of narratives woven through the work’s illustrated surfaces.

Invited by Jay Block, associate director of collections and exhibitions at Bridgewater, Isupov embraced the opportunity to be an artist-curator and fill Anderson Gallery with selected works from 2008 to the present. A brilliant colorist, Sergei elected to paint the walls a deep red-orange, offsetting and highlighting the fully illustrated ceramic sculptures. Isupov’s large-scale busts from his Androgyny series and hybrid figures from his Humanimals series are placed in engaging dialogs with one another, inviting viewers to reflect on the ancestral narratives within the works and through their own family history. 

“Sergei Isupov’s solo exhibition explores ancestral memories that are packed within narratives drawn from traditional myths, tales and legends. The stories are veiled, cautionary warnings of those mysterious things that go bump in the night, deeply woven and textural, fascinating in appearance and bristling sharp in meaning.” – Jay Block

Isupov’s Ancestor unites a collection of figural sculpture that shows the evolution of ideas in his work. As expressed in the characters he portrays, the sculptures’ interacting eyes and gestures activate relationships that are universal and timeless. Installed in a zig zag, this exhibition explores narratives from his past in dialog with the present, bridging memory and place in choreographed alignments. 

“Regardless of our backgrounds or wherever in the world we came to be, our shared experiences as humans are interwoven and passed on from generation to generation. The exhibition ANCESTOR allowed me to reflect on these works and my sources of inspiration and motivation … When I think of myself and my works, I’m not sure I create them, perhaps they create me.” – Sergei Isupov

Born into a family of Russian artists during the USSR, Isupov spent his childhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, educated in Tallinn, Estonia, and now lives and works in Western Massachusetts.

VIEW THE EXHIBITION CATALOG

PROGRAMMING

CLOSING RECEPTION

Monday, February 24th, 2025 | 3:30 – 4:30 PM
Bridgewater State University

Free | All are welcome

ABOUT SERGEI ISUPOV

Estonian-American, b. 1963 Stavropole, USSR,
lives and works between Cummington, MA, USA and Tallinn, Estonia

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 e, another survey solo in 2019 at the Russian Museum of Art in Minnesota.

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11
Oct
2024
Stephen Bowers: A Conference of Birds

Stephen Bowers: A Conference of Birds

Stephen Bowers: A Conference of Birds

Lauraine Diggins Fine Art

Boonwurrung Country
5 Malakoff Street
North Caulfield VIC Australia 3161

October 26 – December 7, 2024

Featuring Stephen Bowers

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

This exhibition is full of vivid images portraying birds in colour-saturated settings where they overlap complex fragmentary backgrounds, many derived from engravings and textiles. The rich mash-ups of visual ideas on the backgrounds are playfully and skillfully rendered using meticulous brushstrokes often suggestive of those industrial process

EXHIBITION CATALOG & MEDIA

View the illustrated catalogue for Stephen Bowers: A Conference of Birds, including an essay by Leslie Ferrin.

“I live in a small rural town settled in the 1700’s by English colonists on the land of the Indigenous people, the Norwottucks. Located at the Western end of Hampshire County in the foothills of the Berkshires, an area known as the Hilltowns, we are about 110 miles west of Boston and 180 miles North of New York City. As director of Ferrin Contemporary, from where I sit in my office, Australia is half a world away. Yet, as I look at images of works in this exhibition, I vividly recall my own residency and research in the place where these pieces have their genesis – Adelaide, South Australia. 

The journey that brought me to Adelaide began in the summer of 2006, the year we established Project Art, a ceramic focused residency initiative located in an old historic river mill we had renovated on Main Street in Cummington, a small New England village. Stephen was well known to us through his exhibitions at art fairs, museums and galleries in the US – and he was one of the first guests at Project Art.”

–Leslie Ferrin

VIEW THE CATALOG ON ISSUU

Stephen Bowers Interview with the Artist 2024 | By Lauraine Diggins Fine Art

Stephen Bowers discusses his ceramic artwork, the inspirations and methods of production. In this exhibition A Conference of Birds, Stephen has created a ‘flock’ of ceramic plates depicting birds derived from historical illustrations, which were often completed from museum specimens. A focus for Stephen in this exhibition was to achieve a background of even saturated colour, which is a difficult feat to achieve. Certain plates break up the colour through the use of patterning or feature a sunburst effect, similar to that found on guitars. The plates are further adorned with roundels of patterns, looking to designs by English artists William Morris, a major figure of the Arts and Crafts movement of the 19th century and William Kilburn, a leading designer of the 18th century. This use of patterning explores the notion of patterns-in-nature and nature-in-pattern and how we appropriate nature, as well as speaking to Stephen’s environmental concerns, the fragments reflecting the disconnection between humanity and the natural world.

ABOUT STEPHEN BOWERS

LEARN MORE ABOUT STEPHEN BOWERS

Stephen Bowers (b.1952, Sydney, lives and works in in Norwood, South Australia) is a self-taught artist working in ceramics- often focusing on strikingly decorative textiles, wallpapers, comic strips, natural history illustration found within the imagery of his childhood in the mid-1970’s. Close observation of his often seemingly innocent decorations of cockatoos, kangaroos, and willow patterns, reveals subtexts of irony, commentary, and social observation, inviting viewers to look beyond the bravura of the surface to discover a complex and layered world.

Bowers has participated in numerous international exhibitions within Australia and overseas, including the UK, Norway, Italy, Denmark and China and here in the states. His work is included in numerous permanent collections, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), Brooklyn Museum of Art, (NY, NY), National Museum of Art Architecture and Design, (Oslo, Norway), Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art, (LA, CA), Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, (Launceston, Tasmania)  Museum of International Ceramic Art, (Denmark), Australian National Gallery, (Canberra, Australia), Powerhouse Museum, (Sydney, Australia) National Museum of History, (Taipei Taiwan), Parliament House, (Canberra Australia), among many others.

20
Sep
2024
LAUREN MABRY in Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents

LAUREN MABRY in Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents

Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents

December 14 – March 2, 2025

At the John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI

Featuring work by Lauren Mabry

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

As part of the Arts Center’s celebration of Arts/Industry’s fiftieth anniversary, the twelve artists in residence at the Kohler Co. factory during 2024 will exhibit their work in a yearlong group exhibition, Clocking In: 2024 Arts/Industry Residents.

Since 1974, over five hundred artists have participated in the Arts Center’s Arts/Industry residency. The program, operated in collaboration with Kohler Co., offers artists the time and space to focus on the creation of new work in the company’s pottery and foundry studios, encouraging experimental art making on the factory floor and engagement with Kohler Co. associates.

The exhibition will present four residents’ work at a time, in rotations of approximately four months each. Connections between the artists and their work will surface as the exhibition evolves, similar to the experience of a residency. Artists will show a range of work—some previously created, some newly commissioned for the exhibition, and some made during their residency.

Artists featured in the exhibition include first-time residents Shae Bishop, Justin Favela, Cathy Hsiao, Sahar Khoury, Lauren Mabry, and Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj. Returning Arts/Industry alumni artists Sharif Bey, Mary Anne Kluth, Harold Mendez, Martha Poggioli, Lee Emma Running, and Edra Soto will also present work in the exhibition.

ABOUT LAUREN MABRY

Lauren Mabry, Artist Portrait in her studio, 2022. Photo by Ryan Collerd.

American, b. 1985, Cincinnati, OH
lives and works in Philadelphia, PA

Lauren Mabry is recognized internationally for her bold, dynamic glazes and inventive use of material, color, and form. Her ceramic vessels, objects, and dimensional paintings embrace experimentation as a way to question the boundary between abstract painting, minimalist sculpture, and process art.

Mabry is the recipient of individual grants from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the Independence Foundation, and the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts  Emerging Artist Award, and she has worked at the Jingdezhen International Studio in China and the Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Bali, Indonesia.

Mabry has shown in numerous institutions including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, (Omaha, NE), Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA) and Milwaukee Art Museum, (Milwaukee, WI), and her work is included in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, (Kansas City, MO), Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, (Sedalia, MO), Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, (Overland Park, KS), and Sheldon Museum of Art, (Lincoln, NE).

In 2007, Mabry completed her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, and she received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. Mabry is represented by Pentimenti, (Philadelphia, PA), and Ferrin Contemporary.

20
Sep
2024
COURTNEY M. LEONARD in Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River

COURTNEY M. LEONARD in Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River

Shifting Shorelines: Art, Industry, and Ecology along the Hudson River

Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University | New York, NY

October 5, 2024 – January 12, 2025

Featuring Courtney M. Leonard

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Shifting Shorelines brings together historic and contemporary art, visual culture, and environmental science to engage the history of human existence, commerce, and industry along the Hudson estuary. Focusing on the river’s edges from Albany southward to its flow into the Atlantic Ocean, the exhibition foregrounds the impact of local industry on the natural environment, highlighting the history of the river’s distinctive ecological features such as brackish and salt marshes, mudflats, and beaches, along with the docks, factories, and buildings that crowded them out. Through visual and material evidence, Shifting Shorelines demonstrates the various cycles of exploitation, damage, and reclamation.

Shifting Shorelines actively engages in a critical dialogue with images of the river as a natural paradise by showing these seemingly hegemonic portrayals alongside contrasting representations that consider the exploitation and environmental damage to the river that has accompanied many of the human endeavors along its shores. In so doing it offers a counter reading of the received art historical narratives—narratives overwhelmingly grounded on the work of white male artists—that aims for a rich and complex understanding of the legacy, life, and livelihoods along the river informed by the voices and experiences of a broad range of creators.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication as well as academic and public programming.

Installation view of Courtney M. Leonard: Intermodal at the Pomona College Museum of Art, January 22 - May 19, 2019

ARTISTS IN THE EXHIBITION

Henry Ary • Victor Gifford Audubon • Alvin Baltrop • Gifford Reynolds Beal • Julie Hart Beers • George Bellows • Daniel Putnam Brinley • Johann Hermann Carmienke • Frederic Edwin Church • Thomas Cole • Glenn O. Coleman • Samuel Colman • Thomas Commeraw • John V. Cornell • Jasper F. Cropsey • Henry Golden Dearth • Aaron Douglas • Joellyn Duesberry • Ernest Fiene • Kryn Frederycks • Reva Fuhrman • Emil Ganso • Marie-François-Régis Gignoux • Shi Guorui • David Hammons • Joost Hartgersz • Palmer Hayden • Edward Hopper • Donna Hogerhuis • Every Ocean Hughes • William Henry Jackson • Yvonne Jacquette • David Johnson • Abraham Leon Kroll • Athena LaTocha • Ernest Lawson • An-My Lê • Courtney M. Leonard • Marie Lorenz • George Benjamin Luks • John Marin • Reginald Marsh • Gordon Matta-Clark • Alex Matthew • Alan Michelson • Charles Frederick William Mielatz • Jacques Gerard Milbert • Thomas Moran • William H. Moschett • Ruth Orkin • Anthony Papa • Lisa Sanditz • Henry Schnakenberg • Jean-Marc Superville Sovak • Alfred Stieglitz • Joseph Vollmering • John Ferguson Weir • Worthington Whittredge

ABOUT COURTNEY M. LEONARD

Courtney Leonard Artist Portrait

Courtney M. Leonard is an artist and filmmaker, who has contributed to the Offshore Art movement. Leonard’s current work embodies the multiple definitions of “breach”, an exploration and documentation of historical ties to water, whale and material sustainability.

In collaboration with national and international museums, cultural institutions, and indigenous communities in North America, New Zealand, Nova Scotia, and the United States Embassies, Leonard’s practice investigates narratives of cultural viability as a reflection of environmental record.

22
Aug
2024
PAUL SCOTT in Hudson River Valley: Echoes

PAUL SCOTT in Hudson River Valley: Echoes

Gamble Family Gallery

Dunedin Fine Art Center
Dunedin, FL

September 13 – December 23, 2024

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Group exhibition of artists and experiences encountered in Dunedin’s October 2022 travels to the Hudson River Valley hosted by DFAC’s beloved auxiliary, the Sterling Society.

ABOUT PAUL SCOTT

English, b. 1953, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England
lives and works in Cumbria, UK

Paul Scott is a Cumbrian-based artist with a diverse practice and an international reputation. Creating individual pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft and design, he is well known for research into printed vitreous surfaces, as well as his characteristic blue and white artworks in glazed ceramic.

Scott’s artworks can be found in public collections around the globe – including The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway, the Victoria and Albert Museum London, National Museums Liverpool, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn Art Museum USA. Commissioned work can be found in a number of UK museums as well as public places in the North of England, including Carlisle, Maryport, Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has also completed large-scale works in Hanoi, Vietnam and Guldagergård public sculpture park in Denmark.

A combination of rigorous research, studio practice, curation, writing and commissioned work ensures that his work is continually developing. It is fundamentally concerned with the re-animation of familiar objects, landscape, pattern and a sense of place. He was Professor of Ceramics at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) from 2011–2018. Scott received his Bachelors of Art Education and Design at Saint Martin’s College and Ph.d at the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design in Manchester, England.

His current research project New American Scenery has been enabled by an Alturas Foundation artist award, Ferrin Contemporary, and funding from Arts Council England. More on New American Scenery, here.

Paul Scott, Artist Portrait, 2022

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11
Jul
2024
CLAYSCAPES

CLAYSCAPES

Clayscapes

At the Everson Museum of Art

Syracuse, NY

April 13 through October 20, 2024

Featuring:
Cristina Córdova
Paul Scott
Steven Young Lee

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

When he was in college in the 1970s, Syracuse artist and entrepreneur Don Seymour named a series of ceramic landscape sculptures Clayscapes. This hybrid word, with roots in the earth and the ceramic community that is built around shaping it, felt so powerful that when he founded his ceramic supply business in 2003, he named it Clayscapes. A year later, a studio was added, and in 2010, a gallery.

In Central New York, clay is literally a part of the landscape. The ample deposits of clay beneath our feet were formed over many millennia by the weathering of minerals, including the pink granite from the shores of Lake Ontario that comprises a substantial part of the Everson’s building. These resources made it possible for Indigenous Onondaga potters to make some of the most distinctive wares of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. As the area became colonized by Europeans, potters produced durable crockery for food and alcohol storage, as well as massive amounts of brick and tile. In 1841, W. H. Farrar started a small pottery business, becoming the Onondaga Pottery Company in 1871, and later evolving into Syracuse China, which was at one point the largest manufacturer of porcelain dinnerware in the United States.

Clayscapes is a tribute to clay’s ubiquitous presence in our lives, and to the powerful metaphorical and spiritual role that it can play. The Everson’s famous collection of ceramics is filled with works that explore the landscape—from artist Robert Arneson’s monumental celebration of California’s mountainous landscape to Uruguayan-born Lidya Buzio’s earthy vessels adorned with the skyline of her adopted home in New York City. The collection contains many commercially produced souvenir plates and pitchers meant to commemorate and memorialize specific places. These wares are a distinctive part of the Museum’s collection, and they provide inspiration for contemporary artists such as Paul Scott, who makes commemorative plates that reflect the ways that humans have altered the landscape and exploited its resources.

As artists continue to shape clay, Clayscapes recognizes the ways in which clay shapes us. The Everson’s ceramic collection is filled with work that documents the joys and sorrows of humankind’s relationship with the Earth. This exhibition pays tribute to the powerful connection between artists and the world around them.

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison Street
Syracuse, NY 13202

More on the Exhibition HERE

22
May
2024
if you should forget me for a while

if you should forget me for a while

June 27 through September 29, 2024

At Sienna Patti Contemporary
Lenox, MA

Featuring work by Jacqueline Bishop, Melanie Bilenker, Venetia Dale, & Lauren Kalman

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

INSTALLATION IMAGES

Sienna Patti Contemporary’s summer exhibition features the work of four female artists whose work is deeply personal yet universally relatable. How will we be remembered? Will the memories be truthful? What role do we play in shaping that truth?

Melanie Bilenker‘s detailed work starts with the artist photographing herself at home and then painstakingly rendering it using her hair as the line. Hairwork, an intimate art form, was commonly used to commemorate a loved one, especially during Victorian times. Bilenker gives it a modern twist, immortalizing herself, or at least the impression of herself—a hand lightly touching a mirror. The artist is there, just out of sight. She has made lasting a single short moment. 

Jacqueline Bishop, whose interdisciplinary practice is research-based, is acutely aware of being both an insider and an outsider, having lived longer outside her birthplace of Jamaica than on the island itself. This perspective allows her to view an environment from a distance. Bishop’s series of porcelain plates, Fauna, are showcased in this exhibition alongside a tea set titled The Keeper of All The Secrets, featuring the well-known Caribbean image of the Market Woman. Through collage and porcelain, Bishop weaves together histories of the British Empire, Colonialism, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Venetia Dale also draws from history, collecting recent and antique unfinished embroideries and piecing them together to create tapestries that tell a new story. By stitching together unfinished moments of care and attention, the final embroideries link the labor of these anonymous creators at their points of pause. “I am a mother and the keeper of time in my family,” writes Venetia Dale. “By making space in my work to celebrate a pause or a fleeting gesture of care, these sculptural works become a monument to my labor as well as to the labor of those who came before me.”

In Lauren Kalman‘s recent series To Hold, plaster castings of the artist’s body are made and imprinted onto a blown glass vessel. With multiple assistants manipulating body parts, the plaster castings function like puppets, acting as a proxy for the body pressed against the molten glass. The carefully controlled form of the blown glass vessel is lost with the imprint of the body, leaving both a permanent distortion of the original form and a lasting imprint of the absent body. The To Have and To Hold series is made of wheel-thrown ceramic vessels distorted by holding them against the artist’s actual body – no casting needed. The imprint implies she was once there, the heavy vessel cradled in her arms.

FEATURED ARTWORK

Jacqueline Bishop,"Fauna (Tea Service)", 2024, digital print on porcelain, gold lustre, Tea Set with Teapot, Cup, Saucer, Cream Pitcher, Sugar Pot, Rectangular Plate, Oval Plate; Teapot: 6 x 9 x 5.5".

Jacqueline Bishop
Fauna (Edition of 3)
2024
digital print on porcelain, gold lustre
various dimensions

Jacqueline Bishop
The Keeper of All The Secrets (Edition of 3)
2024
digital print on porcelain, gold lustre
12.5″

PRESS

REVIEW: In ‘if you should forget about me for a while,’ four women artists are rewriting their place in the world

By Jennifer Huberdeau | September 19, 2024

LENOX — In absence, there is presence. The four women artists — Melanie Bilenker, Jacqueline Bishop, Venetia Dale and Lauren Kalman — represented in “if you should forget me for a while” at Sienna Patti Contemporary, certainly fill the gallery with their presence.

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30
Apr
2024
50 Years in the Making: Alumni Exhibition

50 Years in the Making: Alumni Exhibition

50 Years in the Making: Alumni Exhibition at The Clay Studio

June 13th – September 1st, 2024

At The Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA

Featuring work by:
Paul Scott
Sergei Isupov
Lauren Mabry

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

INSTALLATION IMAGES

This Alumni Exhibition showcases artwork to reflect the current practice of the over 150 artist who have participated in The Clay Studio’s Resident Artist Program, Guest Artist Program, and Associate Artist Program over the 50 years since its founding. 

The artists who work within the walls of The Clay Studio are the creative engine that keeps the organization going and focused on supporting professional artists at all levels, emerging, mid-career, and established. We are thrilled to bring together over 100 of the artists who have had meaningful, sometimes career-altering experiences at The Clay Studio while also sharing their creativity and inspiration with our entire community.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

& FEATURED WORK

SERGEI ISUPOV

Sergei Isupov, Artist Portrait with "Lips Eyes Ear, Eyebrow", 2023, carving on plywood, ceramic, oil ink, 96 x 96". Photo by John Polak Photography. "SERGEI ISUPOV: Alliances", Exhibition Installation at Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH, October 25-December 6, 2023.

Estonian-American, b. 1963 Stavropole, USSR,
lives and works between Cummington, MA, USA and Tallinn, Estonia

Sergei Isupov, "Game Changer", 2023, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 17.5 x 8 x 6.5".
Sergei Isupov, "Game Changer", 2023, back, porcelain, underglaze, glaze, 17.5 x 8 x 6.5".

Sergei Isupov
“Game Changer”
2023
porcelain, underglaze, glaze
17.5 x 8 x 6.5″.

LAUREN MABRY

Lauren Mabry, Artist Portrait in her studio, 2022. Photo by Ryan Collerd.

American, b. 1985, Cincinnati, OH
lives and works in Philadelphia, PA

Lauren Mabry
“Glazescape (Molten Cloud)”
Ceramic, glaze
16 x 23 x 11″

PAUL SCOTT

Paul Scott, Artist Portrait, 2022

English, b. 1953, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England
lives and works in Cumbria, UK

Paul Scott
“Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, Philadelphia/06. 02/14/04/24.”
Transfer (screen print) on shell edge pearlware platter
18 x 14.5″

10
Apr
2024
CONFECTED, BORROWED & BLUE

CONFECTED, BORROWED & BLUE

MAY 11 – OCT 20, 2024

SHELBURNE MUSEUM

6000 Shelburne Road
PO Box 10
Shelburne, VT 05482

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION & PROGRAMMING

CONFECTED, BORROWED & BLUE: Transferware by Paul Scott

The first in a series of “interventions” by contemporary artists features works by British artist Paul Scott, known for his provocative reinterpretation of 19th-century transferware. Plates, platters, and jugs by Scott will be displayed alongside objects from the Museum’s collection creating “segues” that spark dialogue between the old and new.

EVENTS

Important Dates:
May 11, 2024 – Opening
Oct. 20, 2024 – Closing

Opening Reception:
June 7, 2024 | 3pm
Free and open to the public

Public Artist Talk:

Friday, June 7th, 2024 | 3pm
Auditorium, Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education
Free with Museum Admission

Join us as artist, author, curator, and gardener Paul Scott discusses his artistic practice, which includes provocative reinterpretations of 19th-century transferware. Scott will pay special attention to the work he produced for the 2024 Shelburne Museum exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware by Paul Scott. This show is the first in a planned series of “interventions,” in which contemporary artists respond to Shelburne Museum’s outstanding collections. Plates, platters, and jugs created by Scott—including a special commission exploring the role of the sugar industry in the Museum’s founding—are displayed alongside historical ceramics in the Variety Unit, sparking dialogue between past and present.

Talk will last approximately 45 to 60 minutes, followed by an audience Q & A. The Museum will remain open until 7:30 p.m., allowing attendees time to visit the exhibition after the talk.

LINK TO LEARN MORE

 

Study Day with American Ceramics Circle:

June 7, 2024 | 10 – 5pm
Fees: $50 for members; $60 for guests
(admission and lunch are included)
Limited to 20

Join the American Ceramics Circle for a day of private, curator-led tours and programs at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont to explore the ceramic collections and a private tour of “Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware” with the artist Paul Scott.

Click HERE to learn more

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PRESS

Renowned British Artist Paul Scott on view at Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum| July 18, 2024
Press Release

SHELBURNE, Vt. (July 18, 2024)—Shelburne Museum presents the work of renowned British artist Paul Scott in the exhibition Confected, Borrowed & Blue: Transferware by Paul Scott that includes provocative reinterpretations of 19th-century transferware from Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection along with a work commissioned for the exhibition.

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Paul Scott’s Provocative Ceramics Reinvent Transferware Traditions

Seven Days | June 19, 2024
Article by Pamela Polston 

A recently opened exhibition at Shelburne Museum, titled “Confected, Borrowed & Blue,” presents a selection of the internationally known British artist’s transferware updated for modern times.

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ABOUT PAUL SCOTT

English, b. 1953, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England
lives and works in Cumbria, UK

Paul Scott is a Cumbrian-based artist with a diverse practice and an international reputation. Creating individual pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft and design, he is well known for research into printed vitreous surfaces, as well as his characteristic blue and white artworks in glazed ceramic.

Scott’s artworks can be found in public collections around the globe – including The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway, the Victoria and Albert Museum London, National Museums Liverpool, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn Art Museum USA. Commissioned work can be found in a number of UK museums as well as public places in the North of England, including Carlisle, Maryport, Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has also completed large-scale works in Hanoi, Vietnam and Guldagergård public sculpture park in Denmark.

A combination of rigorous research, studio practice, curation, writing and commissioned work ensures that his work is continually developing. It is fundamentally concerned with the re-animation of familiar objects, landscape, pattern and a sense of place. He was Professor of Ceramics at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) from 2011–2018. Scott received his Bachelors of Art Education and Design at Saint Martin’s College and Ph.d at the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design in Manchester, England.

His current research project New American Scenery has been enabled by an Alturas Foundation artist award, Ferrin Contemporary, and funding from Arts Council England. More on New American Scenery, here.

Paul Scott, Artist Portrait, 2022

ABOUT THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM

Shelburne Museum is an unparalleled and unique experience of American history, art, and design. Designed to allow visitors the pleasure of discovery and exploration, the Museum includes thirty-nine distinct structures on forty-five acres, each filled with beautiful, fascinating, and whimsical objects. Come play in our gardens and open our many doors. You are welcome here.

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SHELBURNE MUSEUM

6000 Shelburne Road
PO Box 10
Shelburne, VT 05482

Shelburne Museum Aerial Shot of Grounds. Photo courtesy of the museum.

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Additional works may be available to acquire, but not listed here.

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07
Jan
2024
RIVERS FLOW/ARTISTS CONNECT

RIVERS FLOW/ARTISTS CONNECT

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

In Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, American artists from the 1820s to the present day explore and illuminate our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant rivers across the globe, from the Hudson and the Susquehanna to the Indus and the Seine.

The cultural, societal, and spiritual significance of rivers is universal, as proven by their lasting presence in art and our collective imagination. In Rivers Flow / Artists Connect, American artists from the 1820s to the present day explore and illuminate our profound, symbiotic relationship with significant waterways, such as the Hudson River, the Susquehanna, and the Missouri, as well as symbolic representations.

The Hudson River Museum’s new West Wing galleries, basking in a dramatic view of the Hudson River and the Palisades, are an opportune setting for this exhibition. It features works by more than forty exceptional artists exploring various aspects of river subject matter from diverse perspectives and heritages. Together, the artists demonstrate—through painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and video—their role in recalling and reinforcing our instinctive connection with rivers.

The exhibition considers these bodies of water through aesthetic, functional, spiritual, and ecological lenses. The Allure of the River section addresses the interrelation of scenic beauty and our attraction to rivers. In Sustainer of Life, artists investigate the essential need for access to rivers for water, food, and transportation—our daily infrastructure—as well as profound sacred connections. Finally, Endangered Rivers: A Call to Action reflects on urbanization, industry, and the critical need for continued conservation and activism.

RIVERS FLOW/ARTISTS CONNECT

At the Hudson River Museum | Yonkers, NY | Feb 2 – Sep 1, 2024

Paul Scott, Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Jason Walker, "Osprey" (right pedestal), Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Jason Walker, "Osprey", Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Courtney M. Leonard, "BREACH: Logbook 24 | CONVOKE", 2024, Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

In many ways, the artists and the rivers they depict are kindred spirits. Just as rivers shape the land and surmount obstacles on their inexorable journey to the sea, artists also boldly confront barriers and challenges, from land access to environmental change. Their creative expressions help us see rivers with new eyes, and perhaps even a renewed sense of wonder, connection, and purpose, as we consider our own community’s rivers and our own responsibility for stewardship.

The exhibition is co-curated by Laura Vookles, Chair of HRM’s Curatorial Department, and guest curator Jennifer McGregor.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Norman Akers • Joe Baker • James Bard • Bahar Behbahani • Karl Bodmer • Daniel Putnam Brinley • Lorenzo Clayton and Jacob Burckhardt • James & Ralph Clews • Samuel Colman • Betsy Damon • John Douglas • Joellyn Duesberry • Robert S. Duncanson • Elaine Galen • Scherezade Garcia • John Hill and William Guy Wall • Daniel Ridgeway Knight • Courtney M. Leonard • Rejin Leys • Maya Lin • Mary Fairchild Low • Ellen Kozak • John Maggiotto • James McElhinney • Frances McGuire • Alison Moritsugu • Tammy Nguyen • Don Nice • Jon Louis Nielsen • James Prosek • Winfred Rembert • Alexis Rockman • Shuli Sadé • Charlotte Schulz • Madge Scott • Paul Scott • Francis Augustus Silva • Joseph Squillante • Jerome Strauss • William Villalongo • Jason Walker • Mansheng Wang • Susan Wides • Tom Yost

COURTNEY M. LEONARD

b. Shinnecock, 1980
lives and works in Northfield, Minnesota

More on Courtney M. Leonard

Courtney M. Leonard, "BREACH: Logbook 24 | CONVOKE", 2024, Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Courtney M. Leonard, "BREACH: Logbook 24 | CONVOKE", 2024, Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Courtney M. Leonard, "BREACH: Logbook 24 | CONVOKE", 2024, Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024

PAUL SCOTT

Paul Scott, Artist Portrait, 2022

English, b. 1953
lives and works in Cumbria, UK

More on Paul Scott

Paul Scott, Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Paul Scott, "Picturesque Views, Newburg, Hudson River", Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Paul Scott, "Vegetable Dish, Near Fort Miller", Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024

JASON WALKER

American, b.1973, Pocatello, ID
lives and works in Cedar City, UT

More on Jason Walker

Jason Walker, "Osprey", Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Jason Walker, "Osprey", Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024
Jason Walker, "Osprey", Installation at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, February 2 – September 1, 2024

PROGRAMMING

Gallery Talk with Artist Courtney M. Leonard

Sunday, June 16, 2024 | 1:30pm

This event is free with museum admission

Join artist Courtney M. Leonard for an in-gallery discussion of her practice and work, including her BREACH series on view in Rivers Flow / Artists Connect. Constructed from ceramic fish-basket forms and oyster shells collected from the Hudson River, BREACH questions how a culture sustains itself when its way of life is threatened. The series is part of an ongoing research project that brings to the fore critical issues that the Shinnecock community faces, while at the same time highlighting the policies that obstruct sustainable practices.

Simultaneous ASL interpretation will be provided.