During his recent residencies, lecture tour, and travels in the US, UK artist Paul Scott was featured in two exhibitions. The Erie Art Center in Erie, Pennsylvania presented his work in Cumbrian Blue(s): A Solo Exhibition of Recent Works. Another solo show, American Scenery, was presented by Ferrin Contemporary at the New York Ceramics Fair in January of 2014.
C File examines the various aspects of this body of Scott’s work that transforms cast-off ceramics from the 19th and early 20th centuries with modern imagery. His work tells stories that explore the unexpected movement of images through materials, media, cultures, politics, histories, and geographies, inviting us to see this group of traditional objects in a new way.
to the many artists, individuals and colleagues who were part of this amazing transitional year
American Craft Magazine
APE
Archie Bray Foundation
Barry Friedman, Ltd.
Bellevue Arts Museum
Birmingham Museum of Art
Center for Wood Art
Ceramic Art and Perception
Ceramic Research Center – ASU
CFile
Clay Art Center
The Clark
The Clay Studio
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Cross Mackenzie Gallery
Duane Reed Gallery
Erie Art Museum
Gardiner Museum
Gravers Lane Gallery
Greenwich House Pottery
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Historic Deerfield
IS183 Art School
Jeffrey Spahn Gallery
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Margaret Pennington
MASS MoCA
Massachusetts College of Art
MCLA – Downstreet Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Museum of Arts and Design
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
NCECA
New Britain Museum of Art
Newark Museum of Art
New York Ceramics Fair
Palmer Art Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Perimeter Gallery
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Racine Art Museum
Red Star Studios at Belger Crane Yards
Sheridan College
Sienna Gallery
Smith College Museum of Art
Virginia A. Groot Foundation
Watershed Center for Ceramic Art
Wexler Gallery
Winterthur
Yale University Art Gallery
Zea Mays Printmaking
The Team: Amy Bowes, John Polak, Rebecca Weinman, Lynn Zimmerman
The Move: Donald Clark, Sarah Bressem, June Ferrin, Ken Ferrin, Sergei Isupov, Wendy Gingell, Jeffrey Lipton, Jacqui Proctor, Kate Roberts, Graeme Sloan, Jazu Stine
Paul Scott at Project Art, Cummington, MA. At the conclusion of his dual residency at Clay Studio, Philadelphia. His Artist Salon and weekend open house coincided with artists delivering for Ceramic Top 40, Linda Sormin, Bobby Silverman. Foraging for fall fungi at William Cullent Bryant Homestead and Historic Cummington.
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Artist Salon in Cummington
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Elenor Wilson in Cummington
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Open House in Cummington
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – American Scenery – Fracked
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Scenery – Costa Concordia
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Ceramic Top 40 artists and curator in Cummington
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Historic Cummington
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Bryant Homestead with Stuart Chase
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Bryant Homestead
Paul Scott’s USA Tour- dual residencies at Project Art and the Clay Studio – Linda Sormin – Oystering
Paul Scott is a material based conceptual artist who creates individual ceramic pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and design. With a penchant for rescuing cast-offs, he fondly restores them to a new life by using them as a canvas for biting social commentary. His work can be found in public and private collections around the globe. Scott is a leading authority on printed vitreous surfaces. His research and artwork have been instrumental in showing and encouraging the creative use of this traditional printing technique in contemporary decorative ceramics.
Paul Scott’s series, American Scenery will be presented at:
New York Ceramics Fair 2014
January 21–2, 2014
Bohemian National Hall, New York
During his recent residencies, lecture tour, and travels in the US, Scott gathered and created a new series, American Scenery, inspired by his travels, observation, and research into American landscape painting, prints, and the subsequent use of those images on ceramic transfer ware. Knowledge drawn from behind-the-scenes tours at museums and collections throughout the North East influences this new work where Scott has applied prints he produced in the USA onto rescued, cast off ceramic plates from the 19th and early 20th centuries. His work tells stories that explore the unexpected movement of images through materials, media, cultures, politics, histories, and geographies, inviting us to see a whole group of objects in a new way.
Exhibition of artists under and over age 40 currently working in ceramics
November 1 – January 25, 2014
presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios at Belger Crane Yard Studios, Kansas City, Missouri
Ceramic Top 40 | 2013 presents art work by individual artists, collaborators, and design partners – half over and half under age 40 – drawn from the finalists of juried submissions and by invitation. These artists are currently working on the cutting edge of current processes, ideas, and presentation concepts in conceptual utilitarian and sculptural ceramics.
Beth Cavener front, Kate Roberts rear, CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013, November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Ron Nagle, Courtesy Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, Ceramic Top 40
Don Rietz front, CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013 November 1 – January 25, 2014, presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Dirk Staschke Courtesy Wexler Gallery CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013, November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Stephen Bowers CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013, November 1 – January 25, 2014, presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Tip Toland rear, Gerit Grimm front, CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013 November 1 – January 25, 2014, presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Anders Ruhwald front, Stephen Bird rear CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013 November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Lauren Mabry front, Bobby Silverman rear CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013 November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Paul Scott CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013 November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Daniel Listwan front, Linda Lighton rear, Stephanie Rozene rear right CERAMIC TOP 40 | 2013 November 1 – January 25, 2014 presented by Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
The exhibition emerged from the need for a fresh overview of contemporary ceramics. The increased integration of ceramic art and objects in recent exhibitions at museums and contemporary art galleries has increased media attention and awareness of the importance of the medium of clay in our time for this generation of makers and collectors.
This survey of contemporary ceramic art features the work of established masters continuing to break creative ground alongside the next generation of artists who are developing a strong root system of their own at mid career.
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
Sometimes when you’re visiting a collection and there is an impulse to take a photo and share everything you see, and then there is one object that conveys it all. Henry Varnum Poor’s portrait of Ben Hecht, has a face that looks like someone I know, maybe even someone I was with. Donald Clark, one of our archivists and project manager for The Marks Project, joined me at Yale. This portrait platter from 1926 appears quite contemporary and old at the same time. One of Clark’s many collections is a grouping of objects in all media that feature portraits of other people who look like him, many of them are gifts. Yale’s collection is all online 24/7.
Maker: Henry Varnum Poor, American, 1887 – 1970
Gift of Mrs. William R. Scott, John G. McCullough, Class of 1936, and Mrs. William G. Heaphy, by exchange 2004.84.1
POST FROM SCENE + SEEN – Great day at Yale with Patricia Kane and John Stewart Gordon discussing old and new, contemporary and historic decorative arts, new building and integration of the sculpture, paintings and decorative arts at Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT, USA. On view this summer is the Waterbury Collection of Art and through July 14, Society Anonyme, Inc.
Rooftop Sculpture Garden – Aristede Maillol – old + new architecture, view from the roof.
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