paul scott

Jan

2014

Ferrin Contemporary’s 10 Best of 2013

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New Blue and White

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
important exhibition of contemporary cross-cultural interchange

Robin Best

Project Art visiting artist from

Jingdezhen, China

summer 2013

Animal Stories

Gardiner Museum, Toronto

ceramic visualizations of human relationships with animals

Kurt Weiser

The Nature of Imagination

Cross MacKenzie Gallery

Washington, DC

Ceramic Top 40

Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO

Sean Erwin was awarded the solo exhibition in 2014.

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Call of the Wild

at Barry Friedman Ltd., New York City

Sergei Isupov’s solo exhibition of figural sculpture

Collectors’ Services

offering organization, cataloging, appraisals, and resale assistance to private collectors

Paul Scott’s USA Tour

American Scenery, a series of new work from his Project Art and The Clay Studio artist residencies

Body & Soul

figural ceramics at MAD and

Clay Bodies at Barry Friedman, Ltd.

New York City

to our artists, curators, collectors,

friends, professionals, collaborators,

partners, and supporters

in 2013-2014

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Our many thanks of appreciation

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

Nov

2013

seen + scene: paul scott usa tour

seen + scene

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.

Paul Scott is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

Ceramic Top 40 | 2013

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

Oct

2013

Paul Scott in the USA | Project Art | Cummington

Paul Scott | Project Art | Fall 2013

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – Flying over Project Art, Cummington with Josh Simpson

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – Flying over Project Art, Cummington

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – Visiting Josh Simpson glass studio

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – visiting Smith College Museum of Art – with Viola Frey

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – visiting Smith College Museum of Art – with Sandy Skoglund in the Kohler bathroom

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – visiting Zea Mays Printmaking with Andrew Baldwin from Wales

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – Sourcing material at Brimfield, CT

Paul Scott – Western Massachusetts – at Dennis & Dad’s transferware collection

Paul Scott, “Scott’s Cumbrian Blue(s), Trees (After Spode)” 2013, inglaze decal collage on Lauren Mabry wheel thrown whiteware cylinder, ~3.5″

PAUL SCOTT in the U.S.A.

seenartscene:

Paul Scott – working at Project Art in Cummington, researching transfer ware, sourcing materials and visiting artists in Western Massachusetts followed by 6 weeks at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia.

American Scenery
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.

Paul Scott is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.

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Jun

2013

SCENE + SEEN: Yale University Art Gallery | Study day with collectors and art professionals

Henry Varnum Poor at Yale University Art Gallery

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.

Henry Varnum Poor,Plate with Portrait of Ben Hecht, 1926

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.

MORE … meet up with John Gordon and Patricia Kane

MORE … Waterbury Collection of Wood Art and other current exhibitions at Yale University Art Gallery.