by Caleigh Cross | Stowe Reporter
July 18, 2019.
“Composing Form” at the Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
“It’s really a broad sampling of contemporary ceramic work, ranging from abstract to figurative,” Moore said. Artists hail from Estonia, China, Vermont and Puerto Rico, among other places in the U.S.
-Cross referring to Executive Director Rachel Moore
More information about “Composing Form” HERE
CONTACT
Leslie Ferrin, Director Ferrin Contemporary
info@ferrincontemporary.com
413.446.0614
For Immediate Release:
Ferrin Contemporary launches Made in China: The New Export Ware – a multi-venue series of exhibitions and public programs October 18
DATES
Exhibitions
Independent Art Projects, Saturday, Oct. 18 through Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014
Miami Projects, Tuesday, Dec. 2 through Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014
New York Ceramics Fair, Thursday, Jan. 22 through Sunday, Jan. 25, 2014
Events
Opening Reception + Gallery Talk, Independent Art Projects, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, 5 to 7 p.m.
Public Lecture, Harvard Ceramics, Nov. 11, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Public Lecture, New York Ceramics Fair, Jan. 23, 2015
CUMMINGTON, MA – Ferrin Contemporary presents Made in China: The New Export Ware, an on-going series of exhibitions and public programs featuring international contemporary ceramic artists re-contextualizing traditional Chinese export porcelain production methods and visual vocabulary independently or in conjunction with skilled Chinese artisans. Featured series artists, who hail from the US, UK, Australia, and China, include Julie Bartholomew, Robin Best, Caroline Cheng, Sin-ying Ho, Garth Johnson, Paul Scott, Robert Silverman, Vipoo Srivilasa, and Jason Walker.
Inspired by Made in China curator and Ferrin Contemporary Director Leslie Ferrin’s recent travels in China, the series kicks off at Independent Art Projects (IAP) in North Adams, MA with a public reception and gallery talk on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, from 5 to 7 p.m. The series then continues with exhibitions at Miami Projects (Miami, FL) – on view from Tuesday, Dec. 2 through Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014 – and the New York Ceramics Fair (New York, NY) – on view from Thursday, Jan. 22 through Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, as well as public talks at Harvard Ceramics in Allston, MA on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, at 5:30 p.m., and at the New York Ceramics Fair in New York, NY on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015.
Sponsored as a guest lecturer by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Ferrin traveled to China in June and July 2014 with the aim of gaining a greater understanding of the cross-cultural collaboration, production, and appropriation occurring in the New Export Ware movement. During her visit, Ferrin visited ceramic workshops in Jingdezhen and Chongqing, where – similar to the historical model of export ware – skilled Chinese artisans, produce contemporary works for Western markets under the direction of visiting Western artists.
“After my visit to China, it was clear that this growing movement of Western artists engaging with Chinese artisans to provide works for international markets was urging a contemporary re-definition of export-ware,” says Ferrin. “It is a dynamic relationship with appropriation and collaboration occurring in both directions, and we are fortunate that we will be able to truly explore the relationship, with multiple exhibitions over the coming year.”
Slated to run through 2015, a full listing of Made in China events, exhibitions, and artists may be found at ferrincontemporary.com/madeinchina with additional dates added periodically.
About Ferrin Contemporary
Ferrin Contemporary specializes in ceramic art produced circa 1950 to the present, with a growing emphasis international ceramic artistis. For more than thirty years, collectors, institutions, and the media have made Ferrin Contemporary their preferred source for artwork by established and emerging artists and designers whose primary medium is clay. Visit ferrincontemporary.com to lean more.
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Western artists are increasingly traveling to China to research and produce work for exhibitions in the USA, Australia and Europe. Over a third of the artists shown in Ceramic Top 40 — an exhibition highlighting individual artists, collaborators, and design partners working on the cutting edge of conceptual, utilitarian, and sculptural ceramics — have been to Jingdezhen including Susan Beiner, Rain Harris, Walter McConnell, Beth Cavener and collaborators – Future Retrieval: Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis.
In June and July 2014, Ferrin Contemporary director Leslie Ferrin traveled to Hong Kong, Chongqing, Jingdezhen, and Shanghai to explore this culture exchange, and the galleries and museums in the rapidly developing contemporary art scenes of Hong Kong and Shanghai. Documenting her travels in images as she went (you can find the full feed on the collaborative art blog scene +seen), Ferrin participated in a ten day workshop in Chongqing sponsored by Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, gave lectures at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen and Shanghai, and visited studio workshops where Ferrin Contemporary represented artists Jason Walker, Sin-ying Ho, Robin Best and others worked in collaboration with Chinese skilled artisans.
Learn more about her investigation of this burgeoning exchange and Western artists working in China at the following public talks this Fall and Winter:
Independent Art Projects, Saturday, October 18, 2014
Harvard Ceramics, November 12, 2014
New York Ceramics Fair, January 23, 2015
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
important exhibition of contemporary cross-cultural interchange
Project Art visiting artist from
Jingdezhen, China
summer 2013
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
ceramic visualizations of human relationships with animals
The Nature of Imagination
Cross MacKenzie Gallery
Washington, DC
Red Star Studios, Kansas City, MO
Sean Erwin was awarded the solo exhibition in 2014.
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at Barry Friedman Ltd., New York City
Sergei Isupov’s solo exhibition of figural sculpture
offering organization, cataloging, appraisals, and resale assistance to private collectors
American Scenery, a series of new work from his Project Art and The Clay Studio artist residencies
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
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
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.
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
SUMMER 2013 at Project Art and Ferrin Gallery
Summer brings ART + ARTISTS from far away places around the world Adelaide, Australia, Jingdezhen, China, Seoul, Korea, to the small village in Cummington, MA, USA on the Eastern edge of the Berkshires, in the heart of the Hilltowns and just west of the Pioneer Valley.
The former mill building, on the bank of the Westfield River, became Project Art in 2007 and home base for Sergei Isupov and Leslie Ferrin. Now with Ferrin Contemporary located there, and Sergei and his wife Kadri traveling to Estonia in the summer, the studio hosts resident artists and new projects get launched. This year the sessions run July – September.
Adjacent to the group studio on the first floor, Ferrin Contemporary exhibits selections from current projects and houses the library, offices and warehouse.
Our next open house and artist salon is Tuesday, August 14, 6 – 8:00, but other days, we are open by appointment. Call 413.446.0614 or email leslie.ferrin@gmail.com
SMALL WORKS AND CURRENT PROJECTS …
SERGEI ISUPOV – portrait plates and small sculptures featured in Small Works at Ferrin Contemporary, at Project Art, Cummington, MA, USA.
Selected works from our current projects, “Walk the Plank”, surfboard from New Blue and White by Stephen Bowers and Peter Walker and Moon Jar by Joon Park, one of the summer residents at Project Art.
giselle hicks | sergei isupov | stephen young lee | adam shiverdecker | jason walker | kurt weiser
PROJECT ART VISITING AND RESIDENT ARTISTS
JULY: Robin Best | Joon Park | Molly Weiss
AUGUST: Joon Park | Tanya Rudenjak | Wendy Gingell
READ FROM THE MEDIA:
Link to “The Personal is Professional in American Craft Magazine by Sarah Buttenweiser
Robin Best is a visiting artist for the month at Project Art in Cummington, MA and one of the artists whose work was featured in New Blue and White at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Upon arrival from Jingdezhen via London, she visited Boston, spoke at Harvard Ceramics and met curator, Emily Zilber for one last tour of the exhibition with artists, collectors and writers. While the show at the museum closed on July 14, selected works from the exhibition are being shown this summer at Project Art by Ferrin Contemporary.
Link to MORE about Robin Best and works in New Blue and White at Project Art Summer 2013
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