SCULPTURE OBJECTS & FUNCTIONAL ART
The 13th Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair
April 16–19, 2010 Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue & 67th Street
SOFA NEW YORK is produced by The Art Fair Company, Inc.
Ruth Duckworth Untitled #992110 2009 porcelain 26 x 38 x 6 Represented by Thea Burger photo by Guy Nicol All dimensions in the catalog are in inches (h x w x d) unless otherwise noted
Library of Congress – in Publication Data SOFA NEW YORK 2010 Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair ISBN 0978920651 2009913077 Published in 2010 by The Art Fair Company, Chicago, Illinois Graphic Design by Design-360º Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois Printed by Pressroom Printer & Designer, Hong Kong
SCULPTURE OBJECTS & FUNCTIONAL ART
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Michael Franks Chief Executive Officer The Art Fair Company, Inc. Mark Lyman President The Art Fair Company, Inc. Founder/Director, SOFA Fairs Anne Meszko Julie Oimoen Kate Jordan Greg Worthington Barbara Smythe-Jones Patrick Seda Michael Macigewski Bridget Trost Aaron Anderson Stephanie Hatzivassiliou Ginger Piotter Heidi Hribernik Erinn M. Cox Donald Bromagin Joe Ponegalek
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SCULPTURE OBJECTS & FUNCTIONAL ART
6 Acknowledgements 14 Lectures Series 18 Essays 20 Ruth Duckworth: True to Form 24 Time Present, Time Future Emmanuel Cooper 28 Finnish Ceramics Emma Crichton-Miller 32 Exhibitor Information 164 Resources 204 Index of Exhibitors 210 Index of Artists
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Welcome to SOFA NEW YORK 2010!
It is interesting and encouraging to see top work being sold at SOFA fairs, which is similar to what we have seen in the major auctions—the best work being sold for a premium. It is a testament to the unsurpassed virtuosity of process and sophistication of many of the works at SOFA, but also a tribute to the resilient dealers, museum curators and collectors who stalwartly supported them through recent economic challenges. Congratulations to Director Holly Hotchner and the Board of Governors of the Museum of Arts and Design as they approach MAD’s second anniversary in its new home at 2 Columbus Circle, this extraordinary facility was likewise the result of much forward-thinking and perseverance. We are delighted to partner with MAD again on its Spring Benefit, held in the Tiffany Room at SOFA NEW YORK’s Opening Night Preview. MAD continues to be a leader in promoting the very best of our field, and their innovative educational programming and exhibitions deserve not only SOFA’s recognition, but yours. We are also delighted to partner with other prominent New York museums and organizations on SOFA NEW YORK’s VIP programming, and wish to thank The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, American Folk Art Museum, The Asia Society, The Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, for their ongoing partnership. 2009 was the first year of our newly reorganized company, The Art Fair Company, and I am pleased to report it has been a time of both consolidation and growth. Our flagship, SOFA CHICAGO is “steady as she goes,” enjoying a successful fair in 2009, marked by palpable excitement on the show floor and a remarkable rebounding in sales. 2009 also saw the Western expansion of the SOFA brand with the addition of SOFA WEST: Santa Fe last summer. Over 10,000 persons attended the inaugural fair (2000 on Opening Night! ) and we couldn’t be more encouraged. This year, hopes are even higher
as the fair moves to early July to join Santa Fe’s high summer season of art, with such venerable Santa Fe institutions as the Santa Fe Opera and International Folk Art Market in full swing. We are further delighted that the prestigious Museum of New Mexico Foundation, charged with oversight of the major museums in New Mexico including the Museum of Art, has expanded its participation in SOFA WEST: Santa Fe’s Opening Night. The Foundation plans a private preview for its highest level supporters, inviting its Circles membership and Business Council to an exclusive, early viewing of the fair. These individuals and companies are the movers and shakers of Santa Fe and New Mexico’s vibrant arts and culture. We hope you will save the date now to head West with SOFA, July 8 – 11, Opening Night, Wednesday, July 7, at the Santa Fe Convention Center. Thanks are due as always to the many individuals and organizations that assist with the production of the Lecture Series, which once again offers an exciting line-up of presentations. And to the hardworking SOFA team who organized and started up a new fair in 2009! We at SOFA do what we do because we love the art and the close-knit community of talented and engaged people who create and support it. If you are new to SOFA, welcome and enjoy!
Mark Lyman Founder/Director of SOFA President, The Art Fair Company Anne Meszko Director of Advertising and Programming
We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations:
SOFA NEW YORK Exhibitor Advisory Committee: Robert Aibel Clare Beck Rob Coffland
Thea Burger
Lou Grotta
Winn Burke
Sandy Grotta
Julian Chu
John Hamilton
Matt Cline
Lauren Hartman
Sarah Coffin
Constantine Hatzivassiliou
Collectify
Heckler Electric
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Scott Hodes
Scott Jacobson Joan Mirviss
Keith Couser
Leslie Ferrin Stefan Friedemann
Sienna Patti
Cowtan & Tout
Adrian Sassoon
Susan Cummins Design 360°
Participating galleries, artists, speakers and organizations Acme Safe Co. Jane Adlin John Alden Paul Allingham American Fixture & Display Corp. American Folk Art Museum Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies
Dietl International Ulysses Dietz Floyd Dillman Jack Dobson Annie Dowhie Lenny Dowhie Bryan Dowling D. Scott Evans Jane Evans Matthew Fiorello
Sarah Archer
Randy Flezar
Art Jewelry Forum
Peter Fox
Asia Society
The Franks Family
The Bailey Family
Don Friedlich
Cindy Barba
Carlo Garcia
John Barman
Peter Gee
Daniel Belasco
Charles Gifford
Nancy Blume
Jared Goss
Bronfman Corporation
Trudi Greenway
Desiree Bucks
Greenwich House Pottery
Holly Hotchner Michael Hribernik Joseph Hunt The Jewish Museum Howard Jones Ani Kasten Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane Lee Kogan Nanette Laitman Stephanie Lang Jack Lenor Larsen Cristopher Levy David Ling
NFA Space Contemporary Art + Exhibit Services, Inc.
We dedicate the
Ann Nathan
2010 catalog to our
Newark Museum
friend Trudi Greenway
Mary-Kate O’Hare
and her incredible
John Olson
love and laugh.
SOFA NEW YORK
Robert Panarella Miry Park Karl Piotter Valerie Pistole Pressroom Printer & Designer Reliable Transport Bruce Robbins Willy Say Linda Schlenger Miroslava Sedova Select Contracting The Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Franklin Silverstone
Linda Lofstrom
Society of North American Goldsmiths
LongHouse Reserve
Will Spicer
Wayne Lowery
Jennifer Stark
Ellie Lyman
Joe Striefsky
Nate Lyman
Three Wine Company
Sue Magnuson
Barbara Tober
Jeanne Malkin
Matko Tomicic
David McFadden
Marilyn White
Kevin McCormack Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Museum of Arts and Design
Robert Zale
photo: David Barnes
Dear Friends,
A Year of Making Art
On behalf of the Board of Trustees and staff of the Museum of Arts and Design, a warm welcome back to the collectors and visitors of SOFA NEW YORK 2010, the Thirteenth Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art.
As we enter a new decade and our second year at Columbus Circle, we are planning an exciting program of exhibitions focused on “the art of making art”. Come to the Museum to see our current shows:
This year we are honoring longtime MAD trustee, collector, friend and colleague Sandy Grotta. Sandy’s sense of style and intense commitment to our field has continued to transform the Park Avenue Armory since the inception of the event. We would not be here today without Sandy’s vision. A Year of Firsts 2009, our first full year of operation at Columbus Circle, was a year of many firsts for the Museum of Arts and Design. It was the first year in which: · 500,000 people have come through our doors; · membership numbered over seven thousand people, tripling that at our former location; · twelve exhibitions were presented annually; · dedicated galleries showcased the permanent collection including the first contemporary jewelry gallery in a museum setting; · artists worked in open studios, connecting artists and designers with the creative process of “making” with the public; · arts education classrooms served more then 10,000 children, youth, and families with arts education and hands-on art making projects; · more than 100 events featuring performance art, film, and other media were presented in our state of the art theatre; · visitors and members relaxed and enjoyed our summer Pop-Up Wine Bar; · shopping in the Retail Store was available off site in our Pop-Up Store located on the Upper East Side; and,
· Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey features the artist’s monumental ceramic figures, bricolage sculptures, paintings, and works on paper; · Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection is drawn from one of the most comprehensive holdings of ethnic and contemporary jewelry in the world. Portions of the collection have been generously donated to MAD by collectors Daniel and Serga Nadler. · Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, an extraordinary display of the range of basket making today, also represents a major gift to the collection. And, at the end of April, we will be presenting Dead or Alive featuring works by international contemporary artists who use organic materials to create engaging and inspiring objects and installations. The exhibition will highlight the creative processes that repurpose natural material, transforming the ordinary and overlooked into the extraordinary and memorable. Many thanks to our SOFA Committee: Arlene Caplan, Michele Cohen, Marcia Docter, Kris Fuchs, Lewis Kruger, Nanette Laitman, Jack Lenor Larsen, Jeffrey Manocherian, Klara Silverstein, Barbara Shuster, and Barbara Tober. Special thanks also to Mark Lyman and The Art Fair Company. Their passionate and dedicated commitment to our field has encouraged tens of thousands of people to become collectors of arts and design. Lastly, thanks to all of you for your continued generous support of the Museum. Warmest Regards,
· Museum visitors and guests could dine at Robert, MAD’s new restaurant located on the 9th Floor with its panoramic views and design themed décor and furniture. Holly Hotchner The Nanette L. Laitman Director
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MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN Board of Trustees Lewis Kruger Chairman
Stanley S. Arkin Ambassador Diego E. Arria Kay Bucksbaum Cecily Carson
Jerome A. Chazen Chairman Emeritas
Tzili Charney Simona Chazen
Barbara Tober Chairman Emerita
Michele Cohen Dan Dailey
Jack Vivinetto Treasurer
Eric Dobkin Marcia Docter
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Holly Hotchner Director
Lisa Elson C. Virginia Fields
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Carolee Friedlander Kris Fuchs Seth Glickenhaus Sandra B. Grotta Chris Hacker Edwin B. Hathaway Linda Johnson Ann Kaplan J. Jeffrey Kauffman Fred Kleisner
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Nanette Laitman Jeffrey Manocherian Barbara Karp Shuster Ruth Siegel Alan Siegel Klara Silverstein William S. Taubman Suzanne Tick Miles Young
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A. First pop-up wine bar MADCRUSH photo: Stephanie Goto
D. First MAD Saturday Family Day Program photo: Christina Latimer
B. 500,001 Visitor photo: Oskar Landi
E. First Pop-Up Store for The Store at MAD photo: Wai Lee
C. First Restaurant Robert photo: Emily Baltz
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Dear Friends: It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the Park Avenue Armory for the 13th Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair: SOFA NEW YORK 2010. This year’s SOFA exhibitions and lecture series – as well as the stunning three-dimensional contemporary art pieces on view – will surely excite even the most discerning art critic, and the extended schedule allows for an even more relaxed and leisurely art experience. New York is a city where hundreds of cultures come together to create a unique fabric, and we are thrilled that SOFA each year introduces artists and galleries from around the world to the City’s thriving art community. We are especially delighted to welcome the emerging artists and galleries that make up a quarter of all the exhibitors gathered this week. While you are here, make sure to take advantage of some the other exciting cultural experiences available in each of the five boroughs. On behalf of all New Yorkers, I thank SOFA for choosing to once again host this event in our great City. Please accept my best wishes for a successful show. Sincerely,
Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor
60 internationally known interior designers and architects Building the SOFA brand Promoting the Fairs to their colleagues Attending with discerning clients
SOFA National Designer Committee Special thanks to the National Designer Committee for their support of SOFA.
Honorary Chair
Committee
Jack Lenor Larsen
Frank de Biasi and Gene Meyer
Richard Mishaan
Bruce Bierman
Juan Montoya
Co-Chairs
Lars Bolander
Brian Murphy
Nancy Epstein
Darcy R. Bonner
Sandra Nunnerley
Steven Gambrel
Christopher B. Boshears
Dennis Rolland
Amy Lau
Geoffrey Bradfield
H. Parkin Saunders
David Ling
Patricia Brownell
Tom Scheerer
Suzanne Lovell
Mario Buatta
Steven Sclaroff
Maya and Joyce Romanoff
Barclay Butera
Betty Sherrill
Sherrill Canet
Michael Simon
Ellie Cullman
Marjorie Shushan
Joanne De Palma
Stephen Miller Siegel
Jamie Drake
Matthew Patrick Smyth
Arthur Dunnam
Stephanie Stokes
Douglas Durkin
Carolyn Tocks
Andrew Fisher
Timothy Van Dam and Ronald Wagner
Lisa Frazar Patrick Gallagher Jennifer Garrigues Alexander Gorlin Philip Gorrivan George Larson Timothy Macdonald David Mann Brian McCarthy
Alan Wazenberg Jennifer Watty Jeffrey Weisman Ilene Wetson Matthew White and Frank Webb Rod Winterrowd Michel Cox Witmer Stephanie Wolhner
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Lecture Series
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Lecture Series
Presented by SOFA NEW YORK Lectures take place Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17 in the Armory’s Tiffany Room. Admission to the Lecture Series is included with purchase of SOFA ticket.
Friday, April 16
1:45 – 2:45 pm ANIMA Dutch artist/jeweler Ruudt Peters talks about his exploration of the feminine subconscious in men by drawing with wax underwater, a freeform process that makes manifest the latent, androgynous unconscious in gracile, delicate and fragile works. Represented by Ornamentum, Hudson, NY 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Holding Objects: What It Means to Wear Jewelry – The Psychoanalytic Mechanisms An introduction to core psychoanalytic concepts that activate jewelry and allow artists to communicate and mediate complex and dynamic interactions between people. Rock Hushka, Director of Curatorial Administration/ Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum. Sponsored by Art Jewelry Forum and Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)
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12:30 – 1:30 pm OUT OF CHINA: Monumental Porcelain UK artist Felicity Aylieff has made monumental porcelain vases in Jingdezhen, China since 2006. She discusses this experience and the vibrantly decorated works made there, many over six feet in height. Represented by Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, London
4:15 – 5:15 pm Jewelry Design: Surface in Depth?? Italian goldsmith Stefano Marchetti traces the development of his work, from the experimental mosaics Pointillisme in Metallo, 1989 through his current work. Marchetti is the recipient of the 2009 Italian Jewellry Award, Naples, Italy. Represented by Charon Kransen Arts, New York; sponsored by Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG)
3 – 4 pm A Thin Silver Lining Painter and sculptor Sibylle Peretti creates dreamlike figurative work that is both tender and disturbing and questions the human relationship with nature. Peretti speaks about her thematic choices and the magical style she employs. Represented by Heller Gallery, New York
Saturday, April 17
12:30 – 1:30 pm A Theory of Everything Walter McConnell discusses the evolution of his signature works: towering assemblages of cast porcelain and installations of encapsulated moist clay. Represented by cross mackenzie gallery, Washington, DC
10 – 11 am Inventing a Visual Vocabulary: the Collaborations of Paul Stankard and Jon Kuhn Glass masters Stankard and Kuhn discuss the collaborative work they have created for 15 years. Represented by Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago
4:15 – 5:15 pm 50 Years of Glass – Almost Marvin Lipofsky presents a visual survey of almost 50 years working in glass factories and studios throughout the world. Represented by Schantz Galleries, Stockbridge, MA 11:15 am – 12:15 pm Reflections on Nature: Inspirational Sources for the Clay Art of Koike Shôko A pioneering woman ceramicist from the postwar artistic wave in Japan, Koike Shôko discusses her artistic process. Lecture will be in Japanese translated by Yasuko Otsue. Represented by Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York
1:45 – 2:45 pm Conversations Artist Daphné Corregan presents over 20 years of her work in ceramics, her inspirations and influences, and the dialogue induced by these different encounters. Represented by Collection Ateliers d’Art de France, Paris
3 – 4 pm The Dichotomous Muse Travel the divergent paths taken by Kait Rhoads as she utilizes traditional Italian glass patterning techniques to create sculptures and vessels that embody her reverence for nature. Represented by Chappell Gallery, New York
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Essays Ruth Duckworth: True to Form Time Present, Time Future By Emmanuel Cooper Finnish Ceramics By Emma Crichton-Miller
Essays
Ruth Duckworth: True to Form
“The Ruth I knew was someone fiercely independent about her work, who knew what she wanted to do and had the confidence to do it… I don’t believe artists can become great artists if they don’t believe in themselves. Ruth believed in herself.” Thea Burger Ruth Duckworth Memorial Service December 4, 2009
“I am quite sure that as an influence on pottery worldwide Ruth Duckworth is of the greatest importance. She influenced and led a whole generation of post-war ceramic artists in Britain – Hans Coper, Gordon Baldwin, Ian Auld, Gillian Lowndes, All Wallwork, Dan Arbeid and many others. All acknowledge their debt to her, especially for freeing them from tradition.” Birks, Tony. kerameiki techni: International Ceramic Art Review (1998): 48-49.
“Ruth Duckworth does not care to explain her work. Her ceramic sculptures are not representations. Nor does she seek meanings or justifications for them in her personal history. She prefers viewers to develop their own interpretations… Has she tempered her scale over the years, as Agnes Martin has by reducing her canvases because that’s what she can comfortably move herself? Duckworth scoffs: ‘That’s what you have assistants for, they’re very useful to move things,’ She adds, ‘I’m smaller, but my work’s not.” Koplos, Janet. “Sources of Inspiration: The potter Ruth Duckworth discusses her life and work with Janet Koplos.” International Crafts Magazine September/October (1999): 46.
“Form is so much more important to me than color,” says Duckworth. Ruth Lopez, “At 82, a Sculptor Remains True to Form (and to Energy),” The New York Times, January 3, 2002. 21
[ Duckworth recalls] “One night … I was looking at the stars. Suddenly, I saw them not only beside each other, but before and behind one another, truly three dimensional. It almost pushed me into the ground, I became so small. But it was magnificent and awe-inspiring— the distances were staggering.” McTwigan, Michael. “Ruth Duckworth.” American Ceramics 10/2 (1992): 20.
Duckworth an adventurous and restless creator once said: “I would like to learn to scuba dive … to go down into that dark depth.” The Times, London, UK, November 6, 2009
“My aim is direct, not to be new or shocking or provoke mystery, but rather to make the viewer feel good. I would say overall my works are meditative with a healing quality,” says Duckworth. Brook Mason, “Artist’s Interview, Ruth Duckworth at 80,” The Art Newspaper, 68, May 1999, 92.
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Ruth Duckworth, a sculptor in clay and bronze, died on October 18, 2009 in Chicago at the age of 90. A refugee from Nazi Germany, she studied in England, where she was influenced by Barbara Hepworth, Isamu Noguchi, Lucie Rie among others. These influences made her a pioneer in the development of sculptural and nonfunctional ceramics in the United States. She served on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1964–1977. She remained in the city converting an old pickle factory into her studio and loft. She is known for her large ceramic murals, major bronze sculptures, as well as smaller abstract ceramic pieces. A major retrospective of her work, Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor toured the country showing at the Renwick Gallery in 2006-2007. Brenda Erickson, Board Member James Renwick Alliance JRA Newsletter, November 2009 Ruth Duckworth’s artwork is represented at SOFA NEW YORK 2010 by Thea Burger
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Time Present, Time Future By Emmanuel Cooper
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Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. T. S . E l i o t
When the Jesuit missionary Père Francois Xavier d’Entrecolles 1 wrote a vivid, first-hand account of the manufacture of the ‘beautiful porcelain’ in the city of Jingdezhen in China during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, his closely observed and detailed description of its manufacture helped fuel the popular interest in all things Chinese in the West. More recently, the invasion of (part of) the Terra Cotta Army at London’s British Museum 2 has added a further dimension to understanding the power and force of the ceramics of this artistically enterprising and technologically accomplished country. Little wonder, then, that so many people, and in particular potters, continue to fall under its spell. In August 2006 Felicity Aylieff arrived for a six month residency in Jingdezhen, no starry-eyed orientalist but with a specific project to make a series of large, two metre high vessels. Calling on her previous experience of, and success in, handling large-scale objects, contact was made with a family business that specialized in making tall pots made from thrown sections that were joined together to form one unified shape. To her surprise, she discovered that these were made by two potters working together throwing each section very thickly. When bone dry, these were luted together with slip and the entire outside surface turned to the required shape. The method she saw closely echoed that described so diligently by the intrepid observer Père d’Entrecolles; ‘The large objects of porcelain are made in two pieces; one half is lifted on the wheel by three or four men, who support it on each side while it is being shaped; the other half, which is almost dry, is put on to it, and they join the two together with the same porcelain materials diluted with water, which serves as a sort of mortar or glue. When these pieces, so glued, are quite dry the seam or join is polished inside and outside with a tool, so that, with the help of the glaze, no inequality is left. In this way, too, they put handles, ears, and other pieces on to vases.’ Ambitiously, Aylieff wanted even more large-sized vessels, some with up to six sections. A.
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Felicity Aylieff
Chasing Red, 2006
Hú Dié Jì Jié –
glazed porcelain,
Butterfly Season, 2006
cobalt and iron oxide,
glazed porcelain,
onglaze enamel
onglaze enamel transfer
76 x 26.25 x 26.25
The vessels Aylieff had in mind were tall and cylindrical, some straight sided, some gently swelling, others articulated by emphasizing the joins of the different sections while some had a shoulder to create a more bottle-like form. To achieve maximum visual impact, all had to be at least three metres tall when made, taking into account the fact that the extraordinary porcelain body contracted dramatically during firing. Although she had a clear idea of the sort of forms she wanted, these often had to be modified to deal with the practical restraints imposed by the clay and the shapes the potters were able to make. As the pieces were assembled it was clearly fascinating to see the final silhouette emerge as the outside was turned, like a sculptor chipping away stone or carving wood to reveal the form beneath. The thick-walled throwing and heavy turning was a testament to a clay body that, while dictating its own limitations, could be worked once its idiosyncrasies were accepted. When decorating the forms, in theory, Aylieff was able to exert more control but the scale and absorbent, raw surface limited possibilities. Preparation and research was extensive, for she wanted to explore a variety of methods, ranging from painting, low relief carving and linear decoration to transfer printing. Aware of the long tradition of Chinese blue and white decoration, Aylieff felt free to borrow the technique but use it in her own way. The discovery of a supplier of beautiful, hand-made Chinese calligraphy brushes provided the necessary tools to approach the vast pieces with confidence. After many tests of colours and glazes, she settled for traditional mixtures of iron and cobalt, which imparted a soft, muted, inky blue – a dark blue-black – under a clear glaze.
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Once the physical challenge of working on such large vessels had been solved, Aylieff sought to use the brush marks expressively, letting her hand rove across and around the surface, avoiding anything that looked representative or too selfconscious. The process and the resulting marks have much in common with the approach of Tachiste artists who wanted the pigment to flow directly from the unconscious, unthinking part of the brain. On some pieces the result is a fluttering, loose pattern of abstract, multi-layered marks covering the surface that intensify awareness of it while remaining fully in keeping with the form and its scale. In the vessel Chasing Black, the brush strokes build up an almost three-dimensional effect of depth as they move over and around the classic form.
88.5 x 22.5 x 22.5 C. Three Brushes (left), 2007 glazed porcelain,
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cobalt and iron oxide 73.75 x 25.75 x 25.75
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Lian Hua: Lotus Flowers, 2006
Chinese Ladders, 2007
carved porcelain, underglaze
glazed porcelain, ‘modern blue’
blue transfers, selected
cobalt oxide
areas of glaze
118 inches high
88.5 x 22 x 22 F. Bo Yang Hu - Bo Yang Lake, 2006 thrown porcelain with under-glaze blue transfers and selected areas of glaze 88.75 x 22.5
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On other pieces, such as Three Brushes, the marks of the brush are more wild and assertive, the pigment more thickly applied so that it almost seems to bite into the surface. The gently swelling, slightly shouldered form is almost obliterated by the broad cobalt and iron brush strokes that virtually cover the entire surface. This is an artist attacking the clay to bring it under control while, paradoxically, liberating it from its formal constraints, setting up a tension between form and surface while creating an integrated whole. On the piece, Chasing Red, Aylieff painted scarlet red enamel decoration over the cobalt and iron underglaze with the same sense of freedom. The brushstrokes flicker and shift over the surface, the marks subtly capturing the essence of form. On other forms Aylieff has adopted a more ordered approach, with the broad, energetic brushstrokes following and intensifying their structure. In pieces such as Chinese Ladders and Fu Ru Dong Hai Shou Bi Nan Shan: Abundance and Prosperity like the East Sea, Longevity like Nan Mountain, take on a more architectural, tower-like quality both in the form, in which one section appears to grow out of another, and in the assertive, defining brushstrokes. By heightening awareness of the articulated form, Aylieff has created a pattern-like quality that emphasizes both the structure of the container and its surface. In contrast to this Expressionist approach, some pieces make effective use of the thick walls for carved, low-relief decoration. To this end Aylieff made a series of meticulous drawings of flowers and plants, which were cut up and reassembled, examined, photocopied and morphed together to investigate decorative possibilities. Eventually these were simplified into a design of multi-layered natural forms that were intended to cover the entire surface. Carving into the resilient porcelain proved a challenge, but the outcome is light and delicate. On some pieces, to add a further layer of visual interest, stenciled linear designs were added. In Lian Hua: Lotus Flowers, the abstract
elongated lotus leaf appears to move into and out of the surface, which is further heightened by delicate blue transfers. From a distance the forms take on a soft texture, and it is only on close inspection that the detail of the low relief carving can be seen. The paradoxes that Aylieff investigates so subtly in these vessels – between tradition and innovation, the floral and the abstract, precision and freedom – is explored differently in Hú Dié Jì Jié – Butterfly Season. This almost straight-sided cylindrical form is turned into a summer celebration by the addition of hundreds of brilliantly coloured butterflies in blues, reds, pinks and greens that flutter gracefully over the surface, a symbolic expression of release and liberation. Crowded and life-size at the base, they become smaller as they move up the form, suggesting they are flying away, freed to enjoy their short lives. During a break in the making, Aylieff took time off to visit Shanghai and the Museum of Quin Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses Army in Xian, where she, like other visitors, marveled at the sheer scale of the enterprise and, despite their apparent similarity, the individuality of each of the figures. Unknowingly, the visit may have prompted her to make four large vessels with shoulders, which she describes as ‘a bit like a row of soldiers’, an impression that all these tall figurative-like vessel forms possess. The twelve vessels, majestic and assured, are clearly members of the same distinctive family but consist of unique individuals. Subtly and quietly, to quote T.S. Eliot, they embody time past, time present and time future.
Père Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, 1664 to 1741, was a Jesuit missionary who traveled to China in 1698, where he studied some of the secrets of porcelain manufacture. His letters, written in 1712 and 1722 were amongst the first accounts available in the West on Chinese porcelain and helped to fuel the European craze for porcelain and the search for its formula.
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2 The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, British Museum, London
Emmanuel Cooper is a potter, editor of Ceramic Review and Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art. He is currently working on a biography of the potter Lucie Rie. Published in conjunction with Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon’s exhibition at SOFA NEW YORK 2010 and the lecture Felicity Aylieff: OUT OF CHINA Monumental Porcelain.
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Finnish Ceramics Kati Tuominen-Nittylä Kristina Riska Kirsi Kivivirta Pekka Paikkar By Emma Crichton-Miller
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The four artists brought together in Galerie Besson’s SOFA NEW YORK exhibition represent the pinnacle of contemporary Finnish ceramics. All are well known both in Finland and abroad, with many national and international honours to their names. At the peak of their powers, technically and creatively, they have forged out of a common cultural inheritance, unequivocally individual styles that speak to their own particular concerns. At the same time—however, their pieces vary widely in scale, texture and sources of inspiration, encompassing vessel forms, wall pieces and free-standing sculpture—there is an underlying sensibility that they share. These similarities are partly explained by education – three of the artists (Kati Tuominen-Niittylä, Kristina Riska, and Kirsi Kivivirta) studied at the renowned University of Art and Design in Helsinki. In addition, there is a shared attachment to the particular landscape of Finland, and to its difficult history wedged between the empires of Sweden and Russia. All four revel in the natural properties of their chosen material, eschewing highly coloured glazes in preference either for the colours of the clay body itself, or for natural pigments and metallic oxides. These subtly various creams and ochres, terracottas, blacks and rusts, echo back and forth, suggesting imaginations attuned to the restricted palette of the Finnish countryside and to the limited materials – wood, clay, wool, bone, paper – readily available. In the ethereal, thin yellow light of the north, small contrasts become magnified – the black and white of birch bark, the blue of water beneath the ice, wood or brick buildings in the snow, the soft green of islands in vast blue lakes.
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Three of the four artists (Kati Tuominen-Niittylä, Kristina Riska and Pekka Paikkari) also work in adjacent studios in the legendary Arabia Art Department. Since 1937, high up on the ninth floor of the Arabia (today Iittala) Factory Building in Helsinki, select ceramic artists have been invited to set up shop, simultaneously designing pieces for manufacture and making unique, one-off works. This respect for individual creativity has been a cornerstone of Finland’s strong design tradition, and has enabled these artists to move freely between functional and non-functional forms, between designing products to please many and creating single pieces that allow them fully to express themselves.
A. Pekka Paikkari Protection, 2009 ceramic, bricks and mixed media 59.5 x 46 B. Kirsi Kivivirta Brown Bowl I, 2008 stoneware 18.5 x 18.5
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For Kati Tuominen-Niittylä, a common thread in all her work is simplicity. Her lovely forms are inspired by the archetypal shapes of buckets, sieves, bowls and baskets still found on some farms, with solid, flat, bottoms and rounded handles. Her high-fired, often coarse stoneware clay, either thrown or hand-built, appears almost geological. And yet the surfaces, patinated with colouring oxides or carved with tools, revel in a sophisticated interplay of colours and textures. In Kristina Riska’s large-scale, hand-built forms the highly expressive surfaces are matched by the dynamism of the material itself. Her large vessels echo back through time and place, recalling archaic pots or carved out boats, while her pierced and interwoven abstract pieces seem inspired as much by the contemporary architecture of the city as by more primitive dwellings. Architecture inspires Kirsi Kivivirta’s work, also, both as context and as subject matter. Her gentle ceramic surfaces and mosaics, which play with simple, geometric or organic shapes, enlivened by many small variations in colour, shape and structure, hesitate between abstraction and simple formalism. Her Chamber series engages more directly with illusion, and the pictorial potential of clay. Haunted by pots, their long history and powerful symbolism, Pekka Paikkari finds a different creative freedom in his own wall and floor pieces. Unapologetically a sculptor, Paikkari embraces the accidents and raw facts of his profession, leaving the marks of hands and tools on his clay, working with, rather than against the uncontrollable transformations of the kiln. Firing is the dramatic process that gives birth to his cracked and singed pieces, which sometimes incorporate bricks and other building materials, as though already freighted with history. This is ceramic art as archaeology, resonant with time and place.
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Emma Crichton-Miller is a freelance writer and journalist, who writes about the arts, craft and design. Her articles appear regularly in the Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune, Crafts Magazine and Prospect Magazine, among other publications. This essay was originally published in the catalogue for the ‘Ceramics from Finland’ exhibition at Galerie Besson, September 2009. Reprinted with permission in conjunction with Galerie Besson’s SOFA NEW YORK 2010 exhibition.
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A singular introduction to new artists, new works. Dedicated spaces for one-person and themed shows on the cutting-edge of concept, technique or materials Presented by SOFA NEW YORK dealers in addition to their booth exhibits
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Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon Felicity Aylieff
Xia KünChóng-Summer Insects II & III, 2008 thrown and glazed porcelain with over-glaze enamel transfers, 84.5 x 22 made by the artist in Jingdezhen, China
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Lacoste Gallery Ani Kasten
Oval Glacier Vessel, 2009 stoneware, 8 x 22 x 12
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Ornamentum Ruudt Peters
ANIMA: AEGLE brooch, 2009 silver, 4 x 5 x 2 photo: Rob Versluys Amsterdam
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Exhibitor Information
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Bernd Munsteiner, Reflecting Perspectives: Suite, 2009 platinum, aquamarine, 2.75 x 2.75 x 1.25; 1 x .5 x .25
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Aaron Faber Gallery 20th and 21st century jewelry; special SOFA focus Working in Metal: Three Women Staff: Edward S. Faber; Patricia Kiley Faber; Felice Salmon; Jerri Wellisch; Jesse Freed; Alex Gadilov; Holiday Anderson
666 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10103 voice 212.586.8411 fax 212.582.0205
[email protected] aaronfaber.com
Exhibiting: Glenda Arentzen Margaret Barnaby Marco Borghesi Barbara Heinrich Lucie Heskett-Brem Sydney Lynch Enric Majoral Brooke Marks-Swanson Bernd Munsteiner Tom Munsteiner Earl Pardon Tod Pardon So Young Park Susan Kasson Sloan Ginny Whitney Michael Zobel/Peter Schmid
So Young Park, Pin/Pendant, 2009 oxidized sterling, garnet, peridot, smoky quartz, gold left, 3 x 3 x .25
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Ira Sapir, Untitled [009-07], 2007 welded and painted steel, 30.5 x 22 x 7
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Adamar Fine Arts Contemporary fine art paintings, sculpture and installations by internationally recognized artists Staff: Tamar Erdberg, owner/director; Adam Erdberg, owner
4141 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 107 Miami, FL 33137 voice 305.576.1355 fax 305.576.1922
[email protected] adamarfinearts.com
Exhibiting: Brad Howe Tolla Inbar Zammy Migdal Gretchen Minnhaar Julian Opie Rene Rietmeyer Marlene Rose Ira Sapir Luis Efe Velez Bernar Venet
Marlene Rose, Zapp Anthropology Triptych, 2008 cast glass, steel, copper, 38 x 59 x 9 photo: David Monroe
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Oriane Stender, $2 Flowers (Pink, White, Blue) dollars, paper, pigment, 6.75 x 6
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Allan Stone Gallery Masterpieces of modern applied arts: wood, ceramics, textiles, mixed media Staff: Gil Shapiro, show director; Donald Wood-Smith and Michael Klein, assistant show directors; Abby Athanasopoulos; Jessica May; Lindsey King
113 East 90th Street New York, NY 10128 voice 212.813.6861 fax 212.343.9312
[email protected] allanstonegallery.com
Exhibiting: Robert Arneson David Beck Dennis Clive Barry Cohen Dan Falt David Gilhooly Dorothy Grebenak Richard Haden Bruce Houston Bernard Langlois Robert Mallory Wayne Nowak Vladamir Salaman Kathryn Sins Oriane Stender Phillip Sultz Roy Superior William Umbreit Chris Unterseher John Woodward
Bruce Houston, Stella Truck, 1989 wood, metal, gesso, acrylic paint, 36.25 x 21 x 2
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Bernard Zondo and Jabu Nene (Ardmore Ceramic Art), Leopard Urn, 2009 hand-painted ceramic, 27 x 14 x 11 photo: Peter Murdock
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Amaridian Contemporary ceramic art, vessels and sculpture from Sub-Saharan Africa Staff: Fraser Conlon; Christiana Masucci; Alena Marajh; Robert Selby
31 Howard Street New York, NY 10013 voice 917.463.3719 fax 917.463.3728
[email protected] amaridianusa.com
Exhibiting: Ardmore Ceramic Art Astrid Dahl Katherine Glenday
Astrid Dahl, Dendrobium I and II, 2009 earthenware, 34 x 12 x 16 photo: Peter Murdock
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Jim Rose, Housetop Quilt Cupboard, 2010 steel, natural rust patina, found colored panels, 31 x 72 x 14
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Ann Nathan Gallery Contemporary figurative and realist painting, sculpture, and artist-made furniture by established and emerging artists Staff: Ann Nathan, owner/director; Victor Armendariz, assistant director; Jan Pieter Fokkens, preparator; Shannon Bonifas, gallery assistant
212 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 voice 312.664.6622 fax 312.664.9392
[email protected] annnathangallery.com
Exhibiting: Pavel Amromin Mary Borgman Gordon Chandler Cristina Cordova Michael Gross Peter Hayes Chris Hill Jesus Curia Perez Jim Rose John Tuccillo Jerilyn Virden
Cristina Cordova, Al Viento ceramic, resin, casein, varnish, concrete, metal, 59 x 29 x 13
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Yui Higashibata, Awahana, 2007 Japanese lacquer on wood photo: Hideto Nagatsuka
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Art Front Gallery Japanese contemporary and modern Staff: Toshiyuki Fujimoto, director; Ei Okuno; Toshio Kondo; Yasunari Kumamgai
Hillside Terrace A 29-18 SarugakuCho Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 1500033 Japan voice 81.3.3476.4868 fax 81.3.3476.4874
[email protected] artfrontgraphics.com
Exhibiting: Yui Higashibata Niyoko Ikuta Hironori Katagiri Masatake Kozaki Akira Nagasawa Takuo Nakamura Hiroshi Onishi Takehiko Sugawara
Hironori Katagiri, Sleeping Heart, 2007 stone (Miyagi basalt), 15 x 13.5 x 2.5 photo: Shinichi Mori
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Massimo Lunardon, Esseri, 2009 mirrored glass, installation, various sizes photo: Francesco Allegretto
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Berengo Studio 1989 20th century glass has always been regarded as merely decorative, Berengo’s vision of uniting artists with glass elevates it to the major medium it is today Staff: Adriano Berengo, president; Marco Berengo, director; Elena Cimenti, sales
Fondamenta Vetrai 109/A Murano, Venice 30141 Italy voice 39.041.739.453 fax 39.041.527.6588
[email protected] berengo.com Berengo Collection Calle Larga San Marco 412/413 Venice 30124 Italy voice 39.041.241.0763 fax 39.041.241.9456 ESQ Hiroo 2F 5-10-37, Minami-azabu Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047 Japan
Exhibiting: Luigi Benzoni Pino Castagna Leonardo Cimolin Massimo Lunardon Silvano Rubino Andrea Salvador Silvano Signoretto Wouter Stips
Leonardo Cimolin, physalia physalis - Medusa assassina, 2009 glass, 53 x 66 x 69 photo: Cristina Culetto
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Les Namingha, Composition 1a, 2009 acrylic on clay, 8 x 7.5
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Blue Rain Gallery Staff: Leroy Garcia, owner; Peter Stoessel, executive director; Denise Phetteplace, director
130 Lincoln Avenue Suite C Santa Fe, NM 87501 voice 505.954.9902
[email protected] blueraingallery.com
Exhibiting: Tony Abeyta Rik Allen Tammy Garcia Shelley Muzylowski Allen Les Namingha Maria Samora Preston Singletary Richard Zane Smith
Rik Allen, Providence, 2009 glass, silver, steel, 29 x 11 x 11 photo: Peter Kuhnlein
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Ritzi Jacobi, Floating Matter, 2009 cotton cables, acrylic paint on canvas, 53.5 x 53.5 x 4.75
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browngrotta arts Focusing on art textiles and fiber sculpture for more than 22 years Staff: Rhonda Brown and Tom Grotta, co-curators; Roberta Condos, gallery associate
Exhibiting: Adela Akers Dona Anderson Jeanine Anderson Jane Balsgaard Jo Barker Dorothy Gill Barnes Caroline Bartlett Dail Behennah Nancy Moore Bess Marian Bijlenga Sara Brennan Jan Buckman Pat Campbell Gali Cnaani-Sherman Lia Cook Chris Drury Lizzie Farey Ceca Georgieva Mary Giles Linda Green Françoise Grossen Norie Hatekayama Ane Henricksen Maggie Henton Helena Hernmarck Marion Hildebrandt Agneta Hobin Kazue Honma Kate Hunt Matsumi Iwasaki Kiyomi Iwata Ritzi Jacobi Kristin Jónsdóttir Christine Joy Virginia Kaiser
Glen Kaufman Ruth Kaufmann Tamiko Kawata Anda Klancic Lewis Knauss Masakazu Kobayashi Naomi Kobayashi Nancy Koenigsberg Yasuhisa Kohyama Irina Kolesnikova Markku Kosonen Lilla Kulka Kyoko Kumai Lawrence LaBianca Gyöngy Laky Sue Lawty Jennifer Falck Linssen Ase Ljones Astrid Løvaas Dawn MacNutt Ruth Malinowski Dani Marti Mary Merkel-Hess Norma Minkowitz Judy Mulford Keiji Nio Mia Olsson Simone Pheulpin Valerie Pragnell Ed Rossbach Scott Rothstein Mariette RousseauVermette Axel Russmeyer Debra Sachs
Wilton, CT voice 203.834.0623 fax 203.762.5981
[email protected] browngrotta.com
Heidrun Schimmel Toshio Sekiji Hisako Sekijima Kay Sekimachi Sylvia Seventy Young-ok Shin Hiroyuki Shindo Karyl Sisson Britt Smelvær Jin-Sook So Grethe Sørenson Ethel Stein Kari Stiansen Aleksandra Stoyanov Noriko Takamiya Chiyoko Tanaka Hideho Tanaka Tsuruko Tanikawa Blair Tate Lenore Tawney Jun Tomita Deborah Valoma Claude Vermette Ulla-Maija Vikman Kristen Wagle Wendy Wahl Lena McGrath Welker Katherine Westphal Merja Winqvist Chang Yeonsoon Jiro Yonezawa Masako Yoshida Carolina Yrarrázaval
Norma Minkowitz, Lady Birds, 2010 mixed media photo: Tom Grotta
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Kait Rhoads, Sideweed, 2009 blown glass hollow murrine woven with copper on steel wall mount, 16 x 26 x 15 photo: Robert Vinnedge
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Chappell Gallery Contemporary glass sculpture Staff: Alice M. Chappell, director
526 West 26th Street Suite 306 New York, NY 10001 voice 917.414.4755
[email protected] chappellgallery.com
Exhibiting: Mary Ann Babula Alex Gabriel Bernstein Toshio Iezumi Kait Rhoads Takeshi Sano Youko Sano Naomi Shioya Ethan Stern Sasha Zhitneva
Alex Gabriel Bernstein, Blue Wing Disc, 2010 carved glass, 14 x 14 x 2.5 photo: Steve Mann
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Stefano Marchetti, Necklace, 2009 silver, gold
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Charon Kransen Arts Contemporary innovative jewelry and objects from around the world Staff: Adam Brown; Lisa Granovsky; Charon Kransen
Exhibiting: Efharis Alepedis Alidra Andre de la Porte Ralph Bakker Michael Becker Liv Blavarp Julie Blyfield Sophie Bouduban Florian Buddeberg Anton Cepka Yu Chun Chen Moon Choonsun Lena Christensen Giovanni Corvaja Annemie De Corte Simon Cottrell Ramon Puig Cuyas Jaclyn Davidson Saskia Detering Daniel Di Caprio Babette von Dohnanyi Sina Emrich Anna Frohn Willemijn de Greef Birgit Hagmann Sophie Hanagarth Anna Heindl Mirjam Hiller Marian Hosking Reiko Ishiyama Hilde Janich Andrea Janosik Mette Jensen Eun Yeong Jeong Meghann Jones Machteld van Joolingen
Lisa Juen Junwon Jung Yeonmi Kang Masumi Kataoka Martin Kaufmann Ulla Kaufmann Jimin Kim Christiane Koehne Yael Krakowski Gail Leavitt Dongchun Lee Felieke van der Leest Nicole Lehmann Kathrine Lindman Nel Linssen Susanna Loew Robert Longyear Sim Luttin Peter Machata Stefano Marchetti Vicki Mason Sharon Massey Leslie Matthews Christine Matthias Wendy McAllister Timothy McMahon Sonia Morel Melanie Nuetzel Carla Nuis Angela O’Kelly Daniela Osterrieder Barbara Paganin Young Bin Park Liana Pattihis Natalya Pinchuk
By Appointment Only 817 West End Avenue, Suite 11C New York, NY 10025 voice 212.627.5073 fax 212.663.9026
[email protected] charonkransenarts.com
Jo Pond Sarah Read Zoe Robertson Anthony Roussel Jackie Ryan Lucy Sarneel Isabell Schaupp Marjorie Schick Claude Schmitz Karin Seufert Debbie Sheezel Roos van Soest Elena Spano Barbara Stutman Janna Syvanoja Salima Thakker Joanne Thompson Henriette Tomasi Silke Trekel Fabrizio Tridenti Catherine Truman Chang-Ting Tsai Flora Vagi Christel Van Der Laan Lilli Veers Peter Vermandere Karin Wagner Julia Walter Yasunori Watanuki Caroline Weiss Francis Willemstijn Jasmin Winter Susanne Wolbers Jung-Gyu Yi Annamaria Zanella
Robert Longyear, Brooch Insular Eights, 2009 silver, steel, copper, insulation, romance novel pages, wax
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John Garrett, Sand Man Diptych, 2010 mixed media, 24.5 x 26 inches overall
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Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Contemporary abstraction and contemporary Native American art in all media Staff: John Addison, director
702 1/2 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 voice 505.992.0711 fax 505.992.0387
[email protected] chiaroscurosantafe.com
Exhibiting: Seth Anderson Rebecca Bluestone Ernst Gamperl John Garrett Kay Khan Tracy Krumm Chad Manley Flo Perkins
Kay Khan, Talisman, 2009 silk, cotton, paper on hard hat, 28 x 15 x 12 photo: Wendy McEahern
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Kate Malone, A Merry-Go-Round Gourd of Fruits and Seeds, 2010 crystalline-glazed stoneware, 22 x 14.25
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Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon Contemporary British studio ceramics, glass, silver and jewelry Staff: Clare Beck; Adrian Sassoon; Andrew Wicks
By Appointment Only 14 Rutland Gate London SW7 1BB United Kingdom voice 44.20.7581.9888 fax 44.20.7823.8473
[email protected] adriansassoon.com
Exhibiting: Felicity Aylieff Michael Eden Angela Jarman Chris Knight Kate Malone Junko Mori Adam Paxon Colin Reid Bruno Romanelli Rupert Spira Julian Stair Hiroshi Suzuki Rachael Woodman Udo Zembok
Hiroshi Suzuki, Earth-Reki III, 2009 hammer-raised and chased fine silver 999, 15.75 x 15
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Abby Modell, Rock Ice, 2009 blown glass, cut and polished, limestone base, 25.75 x 15 photo: Fred Marcus Photography
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Clark Priftis Art LLC A comprehensive fine art services firm representing luxury contemporary work Staff: Ann Priftis, director; Ana Stjepanovic, deputy director
By Appointment Only New York, NY & Baltimore, MD voice 917.647.6835 fax 212.877.0096
[email protected] clarkpriftisart.com
Exhibiting: Abby Modell
Abby Modell, Fractured Ice Bowl, 2009 blown glass, cut and polished, 15.5 x 11.5 photo: Fred Marcus Photography
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Jean-Nicolas Gerard, Grand Plat Carré, 2008 slipware, 29.5 x 29.5 photo: Hervé Jezequel
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Collection Ateliers d’Art de France Contemporary French craft across a wide range of media Staff: Anne-Laure Roussille
4 Rue de Thorigny Paris 75003 France voice 33.1.4278.6774 fax 33.1.4277.4201
[email protected] ateliersdart.com
Exhibiting: Daphné Corregan Jean-Nicolas Gerard
Daphné Corregan, Tête á Tête, 2009 stoneware, 13 x 7.75 x 10.25 photo: Gilles Suffren
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Merete Rasmussen, Dark Double Loop, 2009 ceramic, 15.75 x 23.75 x 9.75 photo: Merete Rasmussen
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Contemporary Applied Arts Renowned for the best British applied arts for 60 years Staff: Sarah Edwards, director
2 Percy Street London W1T 1DD United Kingdom voice 44.207.436.2344 fax 44.207.636.6269
[email protected] caa.org.uk
Exhibiting: Vladimir Bohm Christie Brown Helen Carnac David Clarke Katharine Coleman Bob Crooks Fiaz Elson Sally Fawkes Stephen Gillies Katy Hackney Kate Jones Gabriele Koch Jim Partridge Ronald Pennell Merete Rasmussen Fiona Rutherford
Fiaz Elson, Obscure Clarity, 2010 glass, 15.75 x 2.5 photo: Simon Bruntnell
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Dave Hicks, Raw Terra Cotta Composition, 2008 handbuilt, wheel thrown and extruded terra cotta, glaze, steel cable, 72 x 54 x 12
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Cross Mackenzie Gallery Contemporary fine art ceramics Staff: Rebecca Cross, owner/director; Max MacKenzie, partner
1054 31st Street NW Courtyard Washington, DC 20007 voice 202.333.7970
[email protected] crossmackenzie.com
Exhibiting: Patrick Bermingham Charles Birnbaum Gary Erickson Neil Forrest Matthew Freitas Jason Green Chris Gustin Dave Hicks Jeff Irwin Elizabeth Kendall Maren Kloppmann Tamara Laird Walter McConnell Lilianne Milgrom Gregg Moore Bret Price Lars Westby Diana Williams Hyung Kyun Yoon Michal Zehavi
Walter McConnell, A Theory of Everything: White Stupa, 2008 cast porcelain with crystalline glaze, 120 x 96 photo: Kevin Sizemore
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William Morris, Ryton with Drum, 1997 blown glass, 20 x 21 x 7.5
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Donna Schneier Fine Arts Modern masters in ceramics, glass, fiber, metal and wood Staff: Donna Schneier; Leonard Goldberg; Jesse Sadia; Barbara Packer
By Appointment Only Palm Beach, FL & Claverack, NY voice 518.441.2884
[email protected]
Exhibiting: Rudy Autio Rick Beck Dale Chihuly Viola Frey William Harper Sidney Hutter Beth Lipman Michael Lucero Dante Marioni Joel Philip Myers Michael Pavlik Adrian Saxe Richard Shaw Paul Stankard Lino Tagliapietra Toshiko Takaezu Bertil Vallien Peter Voulkos Steven Weinberg
Michael Lucero, Seahorse, 2005 ceramic with wool
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Beverly Mayeri, Vanishing Species/Western Face, 2006 clay, acrylics, 33 x 22 x 8 photo: Lee Fatherree
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Duane Reed Gallery Contemporary painting, ceramics, glass and fiber by internationally recognized artists Staff: Duane Reed; Daniel McGrath; Merrill Strauss; Glenn Scrivner
4729 McPherson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63108 voice 314.361.4100 fax 314.361.4102
[email protected] duanereedgallery.com
Exhibiting: Cassandria Blackmore Paul Dresang Kreg Kallenberger Margaret Keelan Sabrina Knowles Jiyong Lee Beverly Mayeri Jenny Pohlman Verushka Vagen
Jiyong Lee, Green Cuboid-Leaf Sample, 2009 acid-etched glass, 9.75 x 9 x 5
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Gordon Chandler, Shorty Red/Rusty, 2009 scrap sheet metal, paint, 38 x 34 photo: Ferrin Gallery
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Ferrin Gallery Contemporary art and sculpture in all media, specializing in ceramics Staff: Leslie Ferrin; Donald Clark; Julia Dixon; Michael McCarthy
437 North Street Pittsfield, MA 01201 voice 413.442.1622 fax 413.442.1672
[email protected] ferringallery.com
Exhibiting: Chris Antemann Christa Assad Gordon Chandler Raymon Elozua Lucy Feller Gerit Grimm Sergei Isupov Myungjin Kim Emmett Leader Anne Lemanski Gerardo Monterrubio Kelly Garrett Rathbone Mark Shapiro Mara Superior Jason Walker Kurt Weiser Red Weldon-Sandlin
Christa Assad, Transformer Teapot, 2010 wheel-thrown and constructed white stoneware, oxides, glaze, 14 x 11.5 x 4.25 photo: Tom Story
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Steve McCurry, Afghan Girl, 1984 photograph
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Frederic GOT Gallery Contemporary original painting and sculpture Staff: Frederic Got, owner; Gabriel Eid, art consultant
64 Rue Saint Louis en L’île Paris 75004 France voice 33.1.4326.1033 fax 33.1.4326.1033
[email protected] artchic.com
Exhibiting: Gonzalez Bravo Alain Gazier Veronique Guerrieri Jacques Lebescond Steve McCurry Samuel Salcedo Andrei Zadorine
Jacques Lebescond, Biblos & Libris, 2009 bronze
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Shozo Michikawa, Twisted Form, 2010 stoneware, kohiki glaze, 21 x 7.75 photo: Yoshinori Seguchi
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Galerie Besson International contemporary ceramics Staff: Matthew Hall, manager; Tessa Campbell
15 Royal Arcade 28 Old Bond Street London W1S 4SP United Kingdom voice 44.20.7491.1706 fax 44.20.7495.3203
[email protected] galeriebesson.co.uk
Exhibiting: Sebastian Blackie Neil Brownsword Claudi Casanovas Hans Coper Deirdre Hawthorne Kirsi Kivivirta Pekka Paikkari Lucie Rie Kristina Riska Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye Kati Tuominen-Niittylä
Hans Coper, White Spade Form, c. 1965 stoneware, 9.5 inches high photo: Alan Tabor
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Jean Ives Gosti, Pierreux, 2008 bronze edition of 8 + 4 ap, 15 x 6 x 7 photo: Jan Landau
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Galerie Van Der Planken Specializing in modern and contemporary art since 1990 Staff: Cedric Van der Planken, founder & CEO; Nathalie Descheemaecker, director
Riemstraat 12 Antwerp 2000 Belgium voice 32.3233.5458 fax 32.3227.2068
[email protected] galerievdp.be
Exhibiting: Moris Gontard Jean-Yves Gosti Erwin Peeters Reinhoud Eduard van Giel Pieter Vanden Daele
Erwin Peeters, Yawning Panther, 2010 bronze edition of 6 + 4 ap, 21 x 18 x 70 photo: Jan Landau
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Lars Calmar, Untitled, 2009 ceramic
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Galleri Udengaard Contemporary fine art Staff: Bruno Dahl, owner
Stockflethsvej 12 Ebeltoft 8400 Denmark voice 45.86.259.594
[email protected] galleriudengaard.com
Exhibiting: Lars Calmar Ned Cantrell Björn Ekegren Keld Moseholm
Keld Moseholm, Untitled, 2009 bronze, stone
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Yoshiaki Yuki, Asymmetric Screen, 2009 silver leaf, hemp, pigment on Japanese paper, 71 inches high with various widths photo: Tamotsu Kawaguchi
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gallery gen A broad spectrum of contemporary art from Japan Staff: Shinya Ueda; Masahiko Tasaki; Isa Sumita
47-09 36th Street Long Island City, NY 11101 voice 718.392.7717 fax 718.392.7716
[email protected] gallerygen.com yoshiakiyuki.com
Exhibiting: Jun-ichi Arai Yoshiaki Yuki
Yoshiaki Yuki, Regression, 2009 silver leaf, hemp, pigment, 78.75 x 144 photo: Tamotsu Kawaguchi
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Oben Abright, Alexis, 2009 mold blown glass, oil paint, cement, 53.5 x 20 x 28.5
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Habatat Galleries Chicago Specializing in the finest contemporary sculpture Staff: Karen Echt, owner/director; Michael John Hofer, assistant director; Emily Henry, gallery assistant; James DeNoyer, preparator
222 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 voice 312.440.0288 fax 312.440.0207
[email protected] habatatchicago.com
Exhibiting: Oben Abright Matt Eskuche Shayna Leib Mira Maylor Clifford Rainey Kelly Garrett Rathbone Youko Sano
Kelly Garrett Rathbone, Mountain, 2009 ceramic, glass, 26 x 10.25 x 10.5
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Lino Tagliapietra, Maui, 2009 glass, 19.5 x 14 x 7 photo: Russell Johnson
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Heller Gallery Exhibiting sculpture using glass as a fine art medium since 1973 Staff: Douglas Heller; Katya Heller; Michael Heller
420 West 14th Street New York, NY 10014 voice 212.414.4014 fax 212.414.2636
[email protected] hellergallery.com
Exhibiting: Lino Tagliapietra
Lino Tagliapietra, Venice, 2005 glass, 27 x 15 x .5 photo: Francesco Barasciutt
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Irina Zaytceva, Last Day of Summer, 2010 porcelain, overglaze, 24k gold lustre, 10 x 7 x 3 photo: Ross Stout
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Jane Sauer Gallery At the forefront of innovation and excellence in a variety of media Staff: Jane Sauer, owner/director; Jorden Nye, gallery manager; Richard Boyle, communications director
652 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 voice 505.995.8513 fax 505.995.8507
[email protected] jsauergallery.com
Exhibiting: Giles Bettison Latchezar Boyadjiev Shane Fero Katherine Glover Noel Hart Jan Hopkins Gugger Petter Lesley Richmond Toland Sand Nancy Scheinman Janice Vitkovsky Irina Zaytceva
Katherine Glover, Fission, 2008 handmade Khadi paper, birch plywood, gold leaf, acrylic, 46 x 46 x 2
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Koike Shôko, Shiro no Katachi (White Form), 2009 glazed stoneware, 22 x 31.5 x 23.75 photo: Saiki Taku
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Joan B. Mirviss Ltd Fine modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics Staff: Joan B. Mirviss, president; Nami Dunham, operations manager; Antonia Santiago, gallery coordinator; Rie Nakano, assistant for Japanese correspondence
39 East 78th Street 4th floor New York, NY 10075 voice 212.799.4021 fax 212.721.5148
[email protected] mirviss.com
Exhibiting: Akiyama Yô Fukami Sueharu Fukumoto Fuku Futamura Yoshimi Hoshino Kayoko Hoshino Satoru Kaneta Masanao Katô Yasukage Katsumata Chieko Kawase Shinobu Kishi Eiko Koike Shôko Kondô Takahiro Mihara Ken Mishima Kimiyo Miyashita Zenji Morino Taimei Nagae Shigekazu Nakamura Takuo Nishihata Tadashi Ogawa Machiko Sakiyama Takayuki Sakurai Yasuko Sugiura Yasuyoshi Takegoshi Jun Wada Morihiro
Ogawa Machiko, Red vessel with linear motif, 2009 stoneware with iron oxide glaze, 10.25 x 17.5 x 19.75 photo: Richard Goodbody
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Chien-Wei Chang, Wounded Soul in Healing Process, 2009 silver, felt, 7 x 10 photo: Michael Harvey
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Joanna Bird Pottery Works in clay, silver and glass by leading international artists as well as works by early pioneers in the field Staff: Joanna Bird, owner; Camilla Webb Carter, assistant
By Appointment Only 19 Grove Park Terrace London W4 3QE United Kingdom voice 44.20.8995.9960 fax 44.20.8742.7752
[email protected] joannabirdpottery.com
Exhibiting: Jacob van der Beugel Michael Cardew Fernando Casasempere Chien-Wei Chang Carina Ciscato Hans Coper Pippin Drysdale Elizabeth Fritsch Sueharu Fukami Shoji Hamada Bernard Leach William Marshall Annie Turner
Fernando Casasempere, Primordial Cavern, 2009 ceramic, 26.5 x 28.5 x 19.5 photo: Michael Harvey
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Ritsue Mishima, Spin, 2008 glass, 14 x 19 x 15.5 photo: Ritsue Mishima
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Katie Jones Japanese artists working in metal, glass, ceramics and textiles Staff: Katie Jones, director; Lesley Mallyon
By Appointment Only 68 Elgin Mansions, Elgin Avenue London W91JN United Kingdom voice 44.20.7289.1855 fax 44.20.7289.1855
[email protected] katiejonesjapan.com
Exhibiting: Shihoko Fukumoto Koji Hatakeyama Hiroki Iwata Toru Kaneko Taizo Kuroda Ritsue Mishima Takeshi Mitsumoto Yasuyuki Oyama Ayumi Shigematsu Jun Tomita
Koji Hatakeyama, Ten Faces, 2008 cast bronze, 7 x 8.5 x 8.5 photo: Koji Hatakeyama
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Jon Kuhn and Paul Stankard, Stankuhn No. 11, 2009 laminated glass, 11.25 x 7 x 7 photo: Jackson Smith
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Ken Saunders Gallery The most important artists working in glass in the world Staff: Ken Saunders, director
230 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60654 voice 312.573.1400 fax 312.573.0575
[email protected] kensaundersgallery.com
Exhibiting: Jon Kuhn Paul Stankard
Jon Kuhn and Paul Stankard, Stankuhn No. 12, 2009 laminated glass, 11.25 x 7 x 7 photo: Jackson Smith
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Ani Kasten, Jetty, 2010 stoneware, porcelain, 25 x 8 x 4
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Lacoste Gallery Contemporary ceramics Staff: Lucy Lacoste; Alinda Zawierucha
25 Main Street Concord, MA 01742 voice 978.369.0278 fax 978.369.3375
[email protected] lacostegallery.com
Exhibiting: Anne Currier Karen Karnes Ani Kasten Margaret Keelan Nancy MacKenzie Warren MacKenzie Don Reitz Tim Rowan Mark Shapiro SunKoo Yuh
SunKoo Yuh, Tiger Rider’s Dream, 2010 glazed porcelain, 25 x 18 x 17
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Jan Huling, Poopyhead, 2010 glass beads, mixed media, 15 x 5.5 x 4
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Lyons Wier Gallery Contemporary realism Staff: Michael Lyons Wier; Deanne Shashoua, director; Hans Wolf, director of Art Bazaar; Laura Berlin, assistant
175 Seventh Avenue at 20th Street New York, NY 10011 voice 212.242.6220
[email protected] lyonswiergallery.com
Exhibiting: Jan Huling
Jan Huling, Dunny, 2006 glass beads, mixed media, 11.5 x 4 x 4
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Tim Shockley, Old Ties, 2009 lost wax bronze casting of neck ties with patina finish, copper and mahogany frame, 56 x 41 x 7
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Maria Elena Kravetz Contemporary different art with an emphasis in Latin American expressions Staff: María Elena Kravetz; Raúl Nisman; Belén Menaldi and Matias Alvarez, assistants
San Jerónimo 448 Cordoba X5000AGJ Argentina voice 54.351.422.1290
[email protected] mariaelenakravetzgallery.com
Exhibiting: Lina Amariglio Weiss Nathan Bennett Silvina Bottaro Elizabeth Gavotti Patricia Gotthilf Ana Mazzoni Maria Moreno Milton Paz Montes Carolina Rojas Tim Shockley Feyona Van Stom Nancy Ziegler Nodelman
Feyona Van Stom, Golden Girl, 2009 raku fired ceramic, handbuilt, 21 x 12 x 11
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Lina Amariglio Weiss, Pace in Space Necklace, 2009 18k gold, Rudraksha beads
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Maria Elena Kravetz
Nathan Bennett, Unveiled, 2009 patinated bronze plate with hand-carved wooden frame, 17 x 11
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Nancy Ziegler Nodelman, Continuum, 2009 tea bags, acrylic, 14 x 14 photo: Eric Swanson
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Maria Elena Kravetz
Silvina Bottaro, The Promise, 2009 mixed media on canvas, 12 x 12
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Bettina Terepins, Untitled, 2005 18k gold, amber, 2 x 1.75 x 1.75 photo: Almir Pastore
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Mariana Magtaz Contemporary Brazilian jewelry Staff: Mariana Magtaz, owner/curator
By Appointment Only Rua Madalena 223 São Paulo SP 05434-090 Brazil voice 55.11.3813.2459
[email protected] gemologiaoniline.com.br
Exhibiting: Willian Farias Vivien Feistauer Reny Golcman Thais Guarnieri Camila Lovisaro Sonia Pasetti Yael Sonia Bettina Terepins
Sonia Pasetti, Virada, 2007 18k gold, diamonds, 5.25 x 3.5 x 3.5 photo: Almir Pastore
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Thais Guarnieri, Passion Fruit Flower, 2010 silver, 3.75 x 3.75 x 0.5 photo: Almir Pastore
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Mariana Magtaz
Vivien Feistauer, Origami, 2010 18k white gold, silver, diamond, green beryl, 2.25 x 1.25 x 0.75 photo: Almir Pastore
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Willian Farias, Cone, 2003 18k gold, dendrite, 2 x 1 x 0.75 photo: Almir Pastore
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Mariana Magtaz
Yael Sonia, Spinning Top Curve, 2005 18k gold, quartz, 1.25 x 2.5 x 0.75 photo: Almir Pastore
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Camila Lovisaro, Cubos, 2007 silver, diamond, wood, 2 x 0.75 x 0.75 photo: Almir Pastore
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Mariana Magtaz
Reny Golcman, Tongue, 2007 silver, quartz, 6 x 3.25 x 0.75 photo: Almir Pastore
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George Nakashima, Conoid Bench, 1976 American black walnut, 36 x 24 x 87 photo: Michael J. Joniec
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Moderne Gallery Vintage and contemporary craft/studio furniture, ceramics and turned wood Staff: Robert Aibel, president; Joshua Aibel and Chris Aibel, sales associates; Michael Gruber, designer; Cynthia Tyng, manager
111 North 3rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 voice 215.923.8536 fax 215.923.8435
[email protected] modernegallery.com
Exhibiting: Arthur Espenet Carpenter Wendell Castle Michael Coffey David Ebner Wharton Esherick Ken Ferguson Sam Maloof Emil Milan Ed Moulthrop George Nakashima Rude Osolnik James Prestini Paul Soldner Bob Stocksdale Toshiko Takaezu Robert Turner Peter Voulkos Pamela Weir-Quiton
George Nakashima, Conoid End Table, 1964 American black walnut, 21 x 34 x 31 photo: Michael J. Joniec
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Erica Rosenfeld, Fulton Street 1:30 am, 2009 fused glass, hot-worked glass tapestry, 24 x 36 x 1 photo: Erica Rosenfeld
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Mostly Glass Gallery Contemporary art, novel and technically challenging Staff: Sami Harawi, owner; Marcia Lepore, associate; Michael Martz, director of operations
34 Hidden Ledge Road Englewood, NJ 07631 voice 201.816.1222 fax 201.503.9522
[email protected] mostlyglass.com
Exhibiting: Christine Barney Mary Ellen Buxton Mary Darwall Miriam Di Fiore Karen Flowers Elizabeth Hopkins Hildegund Ilkerl Vlastislav Janacek Gabrile Kuestner Kevin Kutch Marcia Lepore Gabriele Malek Jillian Molettiere Martie Negri Fabienne Picaud Gateson Recko Madelyn Ricks Erica Rosenfeld Alison Ruzsa Ira Tiffen Sharmini Wirasekara
Martie Negri, Silver Garden 8 installation, 2009 glass, blown, fused and cold-worked, 4 x 8.5 x 4 photo: Nick Saraco
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Leon Bronstein, Juggling Love, 2007 bronze, 50 x 25 x 19 photo: Amnon Yaniv
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Old City Caesarea Gallery Staff: Betty Bronstein; Danny Bronstein; Ilana Gal
Caesarea Port The Old City, PO Box 5367 Caesarea 38900 Israel voice 972.4.626.0198 fax 972.4.636.0178
[email protected] caesareaart.com
Exhibiting: Leon Bronstein Ioan Iacob Leo Ray Sasha Serber
Leo Ray, Bypassers, 2009 oil on canvas, 40 x 30 photo: Amnon Yaniv
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Susan Helmich, Pendant 101.85 cts aquamarine cut by Bernd Munsteiner, 18k white and yellow gold, 0.72ctw micro pave diamonds
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Oliver & Espig Museum quality gems from the mines of the world set by award winning goldsmiths and platinumsmiths Staff: Marcia Ribeiro; Marilia Ribeiro; Tielle Larson; Frank Cuykendall; Naomi Firestone
1108 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 voice 805.962.8111 fax 805.962.7458
[email protected] oliverandespig.com
Exhibiting: Karen Arthur Ingerid Ekeland Glenn Manfred Espig Judith Evans Greg Franke Michael Good Josh Helmich Susan Helmich Claudia Kretchmer Steven Kretchmer Nancy Linkin Bernd Munsteiner Tom Munsteiner Etienne Perret George Sawyer Konstantino Sioulas Robert Wander Phillip Youngman Philip Zahm
Alex & Lee/Greg Franke, Nacre Nebula Brooch natural abalone pearl, carved opals, baroque pearls, geode, opaline, 3 x 1.5 x 0.5
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Mel Munsen, Polychrome bowl form with stripes, 2008 oval wrinkled, fused and slumped glass, murrini techniques, 7 x 13
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Option Art/Galerie Elca London Work by outstanding contemporary Canadian mixed media, craft and Inuit artists; established in 1985 Staff: Barbara Silverberg, director; Philip Silverberg, Mark London and Dale Barrett, assistants
Option Art By Appointment Only Montreal, Quebec Canada voice 514.501.9440
[email protected] option-art.ca Galerie Elca London 224 St. Paul Street West Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1Z9 Canada voice 514.282.1173
[email protected] elcalondon.com
Exhibiting: Kenojuak Ashevak Janis Kerman Jim Lorriman Jay Macdonell Mel Munsen Nuna Parr Susan Rankin Axangayuk Shaa Brendan Tang Jim Thomson Ashevak Tunnillie
Janis Kerman, Necklace (N573), 2009 sterling silver, agate, tourmaline, cultured pearl, white moonstone, carnelian, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, citrine
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Bahram Shabahang, River and Rocks, 2010 fiber, 120 x 168
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Orley Shabahang Contemporary Persian carpets Staff: Geoffrey Orley and Bahram Shabahang, owners; Ashleigh Gersh, director
241 East 58th Street New York, NY 10022 voice 212.421.5800 fax 212.421.5888
[email protected] orleyshabahang.com 326 Peruvian Avenue Palm Beach, FL 33480 voice 561.655.3371 fax 561.655.0037
[email protected] 223 East Silver Spring Drive Whitefish Bay, WI 53217 voice 414.332.2486 fax 414.332.9121
[email protected] By Appointment Only 5841 Wing Lake Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 voice 586.996.5800
Exhibiting: Bahram Shabahang
Bahram Shabahang, Vecindario, 2010 fiber, 92 x 124
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Tanel Veenre, Raven Necklace, 2007 leg of deer, tuning pegs, onyx, silver, 6.25 x 5.75 x 1.25 photo: Tanel Veenre
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Ornamentum Contemporary international jewelry Staff: Laura Lapachin; Stefan Friedemann
506.5 Warren Street Hudson, NY 12534 voice 518.671.6770 fax 518.822.9819
[email protected] ornamentumgallery.com
Exhibiting: Sara Borgegard Helen Britton Peter Chang Gemma Draper Sam Tho Duong Iris Eichenberg Ute Eitzenhoefer Jantje Fleischhut Maria Rosa Franzin Caroline Gore Hanna Hedman Stefan Heuser Idiots John Iversen Sergey Jivetin Dan Jocz Jiro Kamata Jutta Klingebiel Beate Klockmann Helena Lehtinen Eija Mustonen Ted Noten Ruudt Peters Camilla Prasch Mary Preston Katja Prins Gerd Rothmann Philip Sajet Constanze Schreiber Giovanni Sicuro Silke Spitzer Claudia Stebler Julia Turner Tarja Tuupanen Petra Zimmermann
Sam Tho Duong, Look Brooch, 2010 silver, freshwater pearls, nylon, 2 x 3.25 x 4 photo: Petra Jaschke
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Marvin Lipofsky, California Loop Series #17, 1970 glass, 9 x 27 x 18 photo: M. Lee Fatherree
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Schantz Galleries Contemporary art glass Staff: Jim Schantz, owner/director; Kim Saul, owner/marketing director; Stanley Wooley, sales associate; Francine Britton, gallery administrator
3 Elm Street Stockbridge, MA 01262 voice 413.298.3044 fax 413.298.3275
[email protected] schantzgalleries.com
Exhibiting: Sidney Hutter Marvin Lipofsky Charlie Miner Martin Rosol Steven Weinberg
Marvin Lipofsky, California Color Series #22, 1986-2000 glass, 11 x 16 x 13 photo: M. Lee Fatherree
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Nelise Ometto, Mandala III, 2006 acrylic and ceramic on canvas, 39.5 x 39.5
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Sciacco Studio The diversity and the possibilities of art through different techniques and mediums Staff: Tania Sciacco and Daniel Sciacco, directors
Rua Dr. Renato Paes de Barros, 142/64 Itaim Bibi São Paulo SP 04530-000 Brazil
voice 55.11.9618.9615 201.838.9248 fax 55.11.3168.9891
[email protected] sciaccostudio.com
Exhibiting: Patricia Bagniewski Rita Biagi Alina Fonteneau Daniel Fontoura Beth Jabur Paulo Mendes Faria Bel Miller Laura Neves Nelise Ometto João Ribeiro Vera Lília Rocha Loures Virginia Sé
Vera Lília Rocha Loures, Araucaria, 2009 resin, 23 x 18.5 x 7.5 photo: Daniel Fontoura
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Ann Wolff, Pool, 2009 glass, 22.5 x 29 x 3.5
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Scott Jacobson Gallery Representing established artists in contemporary glass sculpture and studio art furniture Staff: Scott Jacobson; Eric Troolin
114 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 voice 212.872.1616 fax 212.872.1617
[email protected] scottjacobsongallery.com
Exhibiting: Garry Knox Bennett Yves Boucard José Chardiet Scott Chaseling KéKé Cribbs Dan Dailey David Huchthausen Richard Jolley Kreg Kallenberger Linda MacNeil Seth Randal Tommy Simpson Jay Stanger Michael Taylor Mary Van Cline Steven Weinberg Ann Wolff
Dan Dailey, Birds with Sapphires, 2009 22 x 26 x 12.5 each
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Tina Rath, Wanderlux (partial detail of installation), 2010 maple, African blackwood, ultrasuede, copper, enamel, sterling silver, mink, silk, smoky quartz, pearls, 120 x 120 x 72
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Sienna Gallery Contemporary art + object, specializing in studio jewelry Staff: Sienna Patti, director
80 Main Street Lenox, MA 01240 voice 413.637.8386
[email protected] siennagallery.com
Exhibiting: Giampaolo Babetto Jamie Bennett Melanie Bilenker Lola Brooks Raissa Bump Noam Elyashiv Lauren Fensterstock Susie Ganch Gesine Hackenberg Arthur Hash Lauren Kalman Anya Kivarkis Esther Knobel Monika Krol Daniel Kruger Myra Mimlitsch-Gray Seth Papac Tina Rath Barbara Seidenath Bettina Speckner Tracy Steepy Johan van Aswegen Sayumi Yokouchi
Gesine Hackenberg, Kitchen Glass Brooches from the Still Life Collection, 2010 cut and ground glass jars, ruthenium, plated alpaca, 3 x 2 x .3 each
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Amy Orr, Lady Liberty, 2009 credit card mosaic, 22 x 15 photo: John Woodin
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Snyderman-Works Galleries Contemporary fiber, ceramic, jewelry, glass, wood, studio furniture, painting and sculpture Staff: Rick and Ruth Snyderman, proprietors; Bruce Hoffman, director; Kathryn Moran, assistant director; Francis Hopson, director, Works Gallery; Michael Bukowski, preparator; Leeor Sabbah, associate, New York
303 Cherry Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 voice 215.238.9576 fax 215.238.9351
[email protected] snyderman-works.com
Exhibiting: Lucy Arai Ines Arndt Mary Bero Karin Birch Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz Ruth Borgenicht Sonya Clark Nancy Crow Kate Cusack Marcia Docter Steven Ford David Forlano Lindsay Ketterer Gates Pat Hickman Alex Irvine Ron Isaacs Bernie Leahy C. Pazia Mannella Bruce Metcalf Jon Eric Riis Joyce Scott Barbara Lee Smith Eva Steinberg Grethe Wittrock
Ruth Borgenicht, Mirrored Plazas, 2010 stoneware, 10.5 x 34 x 13 photo: Joseph Painter
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Katsushiro Soho, Morning Glow in the Forest, 2005 nemagaridake bamboo, 17.5 x 13 x 12.5 photo: Gary Mankus
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TAI Gallery Contemporary Japanese photography, bamboo baskets and sculpture; rare and beautiful textiles Staff: Robert T. Coffland; Everett Cole; Steve Halvorsen
1601 B Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 voice 505.984.1387 fax 505.989.7770
[email protected] taigallery.com
Exhibiting: Abe Motoshi Kiraku Fujinuma Noboru Fujitsuka Shosei Hatakeyama Seido Hayakawa Shokosai V Hirasawa Noboru Honda Syoryu Honma Hideaki Honma Kazuaki Naoki Honjo Kajiwara Aya Kajiwara Koho Katsushiro Soho Kawano Shoko Kawashima Shigeo Kibe Seiho Mimura Chikuho Monden Kogyoku Morigami Jin Nagakura Kenichi Nakatomi Hajime Masaru Tatsuki Tanabe Takeo/Shochiku III Seiju Toda Shono Tokuzo Sugita Jozan Tanabe Mitsuko Tanaka Kyokusho Tanioka Shigeo Torii Ippo Yoshihiko Ueda Ueno Masao Yamaguchi Ryuun Yako Hodo Yufu Shohaku
Fujinuma Noboru, Gentle, 2008 madake bamboo, rattan, 14 x 11 photo: Gary Mankus
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Elisabett Gudmann and Kirk H. Slaughter, We Three, 2010 bronze with patina, 28 x 12 x 12
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ten472 Contemporary Art Contemporary art Staff: Hanne Sorensen; Catherine Conlin; Elisabett Gudmann
By Appointment Only Grass Valley & San Francisco, CA voice 707.484.2685 fax 707.484.2685
[email protected] ten472.com
Exhibiting: Gino Elisabett Gudmann Kirk H. Slaughter
Elisabett Gudmann, Urban Relic: red 9, 2009 acid etched copper panel with chemical patinas, 36 x 32 x 2
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Olga de Amaral, Strata V, 2007 fiber, gold leaf, acrylic paint, 85 x 42
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Thea Burger Staff: Thea Burger, director; Caron Levis, assistant
By Appointment Only 39 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3B New York, NY 10003 voice 802.234.6663 fax 802.234.6937
[email protected] ruth-duckworth.com
Exhibiting: Olga de Amaral Ruth Duckworth
Ruth Duckworth, Untitled #992110, 2009 porcelain, 26 x 38 x 6 photo: Guy Nicol
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Malik Bulut, Abyss of the Dream, 2008 marble, 21.75 x 6 x 4.75 photo: Ali Konyali
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Turkish Cultural Foundation Devoted to promoting and preserving Turkish culture, art and heritage Staff: Carol Ann Jackson, Boston; Nurten Ural, Detroit; Hulya Yurtsever, Istanbul; Bonnie Joy Kaslan, Sonoma; Guler Koknar, Washington, DC
1025 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036 voice 202.370.1399 fax 202.370.1398
[email protected] turkishculturalfoundation.org
Exhibiting: Malik Bulut Emel Vardar Ilker Yardimci Yilmaz Zenger Emel Vardar, Roses, 2009 bronze, 10.25 x 9 x 7.5 photo: Mufit Cirpanli
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Ilker Yardimci, Infinite Column, 2007 wire, 12 x 12 x 71 photo: Celal Bayak
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Yilmaz Zenger, Attached to Istanbul, 2004 composite resin, 9.75 x 9.75 x 5 to 19.75 x 19.75 x 9.75 photo: Yilmaz Zenger
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Jessica Lloyd-Jones, Untitled, 2009 glass, neon, 23 x 9.5 x 9.5
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UrbanGlass UrbanGlass fosters innovative art and advances glass as a creative medium Staff: Dawn Bennett, executive director; Becki Melchione-Kapelusznik, associate director; Kristin Solomon, associate development officer
647 Fulton Street Brooklyn, NY 11217 voice 718.625.3685 fax 718.625.3889
[email protected] urbanglass.org
Exhibiting: Deborah Faye Adler Charlene Foster Jessica Lloyd-Jones Helene Safire Melanie Ungvarsky
Melanie Ungvarsky, Earrings, 2009 kilnformed glass, patinized brass, sterling silver, 1.75 x .75 x .25
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Valentin Magro, Nautical Delight, 2009 carved white coral, red coral, 18k yellow gold
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Valentin Magro New York Exquisite craftsmanship in creating unique and whimsical designs in precious and semi precious metals and Staff: Valentin Magro, director; Terry Magro, assistant director
42 West 48th Street New York, NY 10036 voice 212.575.9044 fax 212.575.9045
[email protected] valentinmagro.com
Exhibiting: Valentin Magro
Valentin Magro, Under the Sea, 2005 citrine, peridot, diamonds, 18k yellow gold photo: John Timen
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Timothy Coleman, Blonde on Blonde curly English sycamore, Japanese oak, copper, 34 x 46 x 17
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William Zimmer Gallery Superior studio arts with an emphasis on studio furniture Staff: William Zimmer and Lynette Zimmer, owners
PO Box 263 Mendocino, CA 95460 voice 707.937.5121
[email protected] williamzimmergallery.com
Exhibiting: Bennett Bean Timothy Coleman John Dunnigan Rebecca Gouldson Tom Hucker Silas Kopf Tai Lake Hiroki Morinoue Brian Newell Richard Scott Newman Elizabeth Rand Kent Townsend
Tai Lake, Significant Other Bench koa and wenge woods, 32 x 66 x 23
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Adam Aaronson, Inner World 01.10, 2010 furnace cast, laminated and hot fused glass with blown and cut inclusions, cold-worked, 7 x 2.75 x 2.75 photo: Corinne Alexander
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Zest Contemporary Glass Gallery Established and emerging British contemporary glass artists Staff: Corinne Alexander; Jenny Starr; Adam Aaronson
Roxby Place (end of Rickett Street) London SW6 1RS United Kingdom voice 44.20.7610.1900 fax 44.20.7610.3355
[email protected] zestgallery.com
Exhibiting: Adam Aaronson Alison Kinnaird MBE Tolly Nason Yoshiko Okada Marion Sterner
Yoshiko Okada, Shifting Sands, 2008 kiln cast glass, 7.75 x 14 x 3 photo: Ester Segarra
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CERAMICREVIEW The Magazine of Ceramic Art and Craft
CERAMIC
1 Sean Shone, clay, slips, underglaze colours, matt glaze, 2009, H44cm 2 Maybe It’s Maybelline, clay, slips, underglaze colours, matt glaze, bristles, 2009, H24cm 3 Still, clay, slips, underglaze colours, matt glaze, 2009, H15cm 4 Losing My Bloom , clay, slips, underglaze colours, matt glaze, 2009, H64cm 5 There’s No Place Like Property , clay, slips, underglaze colours, black copper oxide, matt glaze, 2009, H39cm
Maybe It’s Maybelline
Technical Information See page 68 Forthcoming Exhibition Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, 26-28 February 2010. Web www.ceramics.org.uk Stockist Atelier Abigail Ahern, Islington, London. Web www.atelierabigailahern.com Email
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1 David Leach – Bowl, cup and saucer, celadon glaze, c.1990, Ø15cm max (Photo: Julia Bond) 2 Micki Schloessingk – Three teapots, wood-fired salt glaze stoneware, 2007, H18cm
Domestic Bliss
Andy Christian offers a personal response to contemporary tableware and finds it still very much alive and relevant. In front of me on my desk are three bowls. Two have handles and saucers. They are all designed by the same maker and two were made by him. Each is celadon glazed. The designer/maker was David Leach. The first cup and saucer is hand-thrown porcelain with fluted sides. The second is just the bowl with fluted sides. The third is a cast copy of the cup and saucer, made with David’s guidance, by Highland Stoneware. What I know is that the bowl without a handle was priced at some four times more than the hand-thrown cup and saucer, which clearly took more time to make. The cast cup and saucer is a beautiful form but it does not hold the intimacy of a personal hand upon it. However, it was, and is, an affordable ‘David Leach’ piece. What does this tell us? David Leach was committed to making pots to be used. All of the pots I have by him are used by me. But the bowl alone carried a status for him and for the purchaser, something that accords it higher value. This basic fact is one reason that some makers have steered themselves away from making pots primarily for function; to eat and drink from and to sit beautifully on a shelf when not in use. Unarguably, the tendency is to make things that, like David’s bowl, gain more perceived value by trying to grasp at art status.
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Natasha Mayo finds intriguing paradoxes in Claire Loder’s portrait heads.
siege. Amongst more playful and contemplative work sit others that explore subjects such as mental health, the cosmetics industry, capitalism and feminism. A diversity of approaches is pivotal to Loder’s practice, blurring the naïve with self-awareness, the innocent with adult understanding; an ambiguity which can leave a viewer uncertain at times whether to smile or frown. All work appears as if created through a child’s eyes, filled with wonderment, a sense of enquiry and the peculiar objectivity that characterises a child’s point of view. Under this guise, all that is absurd, ludicrous and nonsensical in our environment comes to the fore.
The portrait captures a moment in time, suspends breath and emotion, whilst the subject of the portrait can get up and walk away. This suspension affords the viewer more time to contemplate properties, to ignore social etiquette and stare into the eyes of strangers. For the artist, it allows the space in which to create. It is their province, their territory to explore the impact of style or technique on the features of the human body. Some artists remain closely aligned to reality, seeking accuracy of form and colour; others push the boundaries of representation to expose more than mere visual likeness and, as with Loder’s artwork, make comment on our relationship with the world around us.
THE SURREAL The juxtaposition of two different mental spheres clearly
employs a surrealist tendency and the incongruity of this relationship gives rise to both the work’s humour and sense of discomfort. On first glance, for example, the piece Maybe It’s Maybelline can appear a simple imitation of a child’s drawing: a clear outline of the head and hairline, brush marks crudely denoting eyes, mouth and cheeks. Yet, rather than faithfully continuing in this pastiche, the eyelashes are exaggerated so far beyond the simple spider’s legs commonly found in children’s imagery, to approximately three inches long using the bristles from old brooms, that they appear almost violent, causing you to blink. Loder explores logical impossibilities as if employing the hands of a child, which, together with its pointed and knowing title, gives the work potential for profound meaning. ‘The beauty industry adverts provide a fertile hunting ground for some of my more recent ideas and this is where the ridiculous eyelashes come from and the heads which support themselves on hair…“stronger looking hair” and all that! I’ve only recently started to realise how important this influence is. Also I’m reading Affluenza by Oliver James…thinking a lot about the recession and how I fit
HUMOUR There is simplicity to Loder’s work, a naïve quality that
allows her to comment on matters as if through innocent eyes. Her heads have been stretched out of proportion, their features shrunk and simplified and the brush marks which encircle their cheeks and draw their mouths are still visible, creating an uneasy balance between two and three dimensions. It is almost as if a child’s self-portrait has been given form and stepped off the paper to take a better look around the room. They are humorous and intriguing, possessing qualities both childlike and mature that are difficult to distinguish from one another. The work sits awkwardly within the conventions of formal or academic painting and, indeed, the history of ceramic portraiture and it is this that lends the work its disturbing edge. By emulating childlike properties Loder is not attempting to reflect a visual ideal of childhood. Loder’s child is constantly under
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LIFESTYLE Along with much else in our life, the way we eat and drink
or don’t fit into the system. I’m also working on some pieces around the idea of home versus property. I’ll be making a piece called There’s No Place Like Property. I’m feeling my way around these thoughts with the work…yes that’s exactly what it feels like – I’ve just realised that as I wrote it!’ The work is defined by its hybridity. Loder is something of a magpie for such influences; ideas are triggered by adverts, books, words and sayings, even Elvis. It seems that her aesthetic positioning between child and adult has created an entire outlook from which she examines the world. Some works simply defy reason; others use humour as an effective tool to comment on more complex, even sinister matters. The work is truly post-modern and yet it would be remiss of the viewer to forgo the aesthetic experience of the work in and of itself. As for many artists working in this most traditional of genres, the eyes hold greatest significance. That Loder’s faces often avert their gaze is all the more compelling. We are drawn into their animated world, brush marks shifting across their surface, creating a transient feel as if more apparition than corporeal; akin to a thought flickering through the mind, an expression of the process of thinking itself. On both an expressive and contextual level, Loder’s ceramics speak of the act of reflection. They are contemplative and introverted and yet they prompt us to recognise the absurdity of our predicament and perhaps the naïvety with which we usually accept the nonsensical in life.
together has changed. Gone is the general acceptance of the desirability of lumpish mugs and plates just because they were handmade. But is the skill of repeat throwing disappearing? Do people still want to buy pots for use? Are student makers given the option of developing throwing skills in colleges and workshops? David Leach’s eldest son John, along with his team of assistants, continues to make wood-fired ‘standard ware’ at his pottery in Muchelney, Somerset. He can sell as much as he makes. A homely and handsome range in which food looks good. The pots stand up to robust use and are sold in high-status shops such as David Mellor and Contemporary Ceramics. But John Leach, too, has been seduced into making one-off ‘black mood’ pots, which claim a higher status and bear his personal mark. Others like Richard Batterham (see
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1 Enkidu: The Wild Man , H38cm 2 Bull Pair, H20cm 3 Balancing Act , H20cm 4 Bouldering , H31cm 5 Enkidu’s Dream , H37cm
1 Selection of small pots, bone china, 2009, H10cm max (Photo: Michael Harvey)
Factory Formed The objects produced as a result of the collaboration between Ken Eastman and Royal Crown Derby impress Nicholas Oddy. Since the mid nineteenth century the history of British ceramics has been sprinkled with attempts to bring fine art and studio practice together with varying degrees of success. If nothing else, it leaves a legacy of rich pickings for collectors. Such initiatives involving studio ceramics were severely restricted by the self-inflicted isolation from, and overt opposition to, ‘industry’ by the disciples of Bernard Leach and the sentiments of A Potter’s Book. While that is now largely a thing of the past, there is still a conceptual leap between the two types of practice that presents a challenge, but one taken up by what seems at first a bizarre pairing: Ken Eastman, maker of large, stoneware, abstract, slab-built vessels, each an exercise in single-handed individuality, and Royal Crown Derby, a bone china factory making highly decorated figurines and tablewares in a tradition some two centuries old.
FAST FORWARD Three years ago Louise Adams (a contemporary
of Eastman’s at the Royal College of Art in the 1980s), art director at Derby, invited him to visit the factory. The 1980s were the period Peter Dormer termed the ‘new ceramics’, initiating debates such as those around the ICA exhibition Fast Forward, which attempted to reposition studio ceramics in a history that included the decorative and the factory-made. In this intellectual context the idea of Eastman and Derby seems unproblematic; indeed, if anything, emblematic of the sort of historical links and juxtapositions that such post-modern thought encouraged. However, Eastman’s work is distinctly ahistoric in its aesthetic and overtly studio in its making; it is not as if one can discern any referencing to the likes of Derby in its conception or processing. Rather, Eastman seems to have been invited just because his work was so far from Derby’s output in every way that his very presence would act as a challenge that might spark something… but what?
This question remained unanswered for some months after the collaboration began, neither party knowing exactly why Eastman was there. For his part Eastman found, and still finds, the culture of the factory, with its carefully regulated working practices and division of labour, fascinating. Derby viewed Eastman as a shape-maker and had to accommodate the fact that studio practice tends not to operate in this manner. They were (to use his own words) ‘slightly puzzled’ by his taking on everything from rolling the clay to finishing the decoration. However, Eastman thinks that their interest in shape is not surprising. In a factory that specialises in naturalistic modelling and the tried-and-tested, Eastman’s exploration of form is so far from the factory’s conventional ways of working that it had the potential to generate new ways of thinking about formal design at Derby. DECORATION If shape was the pay-off for Derby, then decoration
complex hand-paints in the Imari style fascinated him. Eastman experimented with applying transfer decoration to bone china shapes, which he continued to slab-build. To anyone familiar only with Eastman’s current studio practice the idea of such a combination might seem unprecedented, but as a student at Edinburgh College of Art in the early eighties he produced water-eroded raku platters and jugs decorated with commercial earthenware glazes that basked under such names as Rooster Red, Cool Custard, Banshee Blue and Tempting Turquoise, an early exercise in similar incongruity. BONE CHINA As Eastman discovered, the bone china body is
notoriously plastic and given to flopping both before and during firing, while its high shrinkage is prone to cracking in studio-type contexts. Usually, Eastman’s shapes are strictly controlled and made in rigid bodies, such as T material, which has small shrinkage and
seems to be the one for Eastman. The factory’s pattern books and their use of modern transfer technologies to effect what were once
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Linda Kieft won the Zelli Porcelain prize in 2005 and 2008. Her work can be seen at Form Contemporary Craft, Blaenavon, Gwent. Web www.form-gallery.co.uk Linda Kieft Tel 01495 270178
Dreams & Visions Natasha Mayo explores the narrative aspects in Linda Kieft’s figures. There is simplicity to Linda Kieft’s ceramic figures, a straightforwardness in their modelling and articulation into scenes that is somehow familiar and comforting. They have an archetypal quality, as if tapping into a narrative already inherent within us that we simply recognise. This may be due to Kieft’s adaptation of well-known stories, myths or children’s tales, but we do not need to know these details in order to experience the work. Regardless of names or places, the activity of our perception prompts us to put figures and props together and we become the narrator; the story becomes ours to tell. We are all raconteurs; it is part of our physiology. We understand our place in the world by projecting ourselves into situations, by moving forwards or backwards in time, enacting roles or testing out possibilities. It fulfils a basic human need to see ourselves reflected in the environment around us. If an artwork is successful, it is these same mechanisms that enable us to fully experience its properties; inanimate stone can be changed into small worlds of experience but only if a viewer is susceptible to its properties, can see themselves transposed, reflected in its shapes and colours. That is to say, within figurative work, we might feel the rhythm of its contours and the softness of its flesh without actually touching, or the pressure of weight and extension of limbs without actually moving. Narrative art, as a specific genre, seeks to extend our experience by moving from a fixed image toward a succession of events, by its very nature attempting to prompt connections and associations. Such artwork becomes an experience in parts, an enactment unfolding before us as we put the pieces together to discover what the story is about. In psychological terms, its properties are taken further still; narrative is understood as an organising principle, a way in which we restore our sense of order and interconnectivity with the world. In this respect, such artwork can be seen as rendering the act of interpretation visible, a demonstration of ways that we can thread together events to forge understanding. In Kieft’s Enkidu’s Dream, she adapts a scene from possibly the oldest story known to man: the Epic of Gilgamesh. In this scene, Enkidu dreams of his transition from life into death, seeing himself lying across the gateway to the netherworld, his arms bound like the wings of a bird, part transformed, as if wearing the same coat of feathers as those creatures already resident in the darkness. In Kieft’s adaptation it is obvious how we might see ourselves reflected, our form is mimicked, our corporality can be felt, but there is also enough difference in properties to remove them from our reality. The work clearly portrays a fictitious scene, prompting a more fluid, lateral interpretation. Its scale, in the first instance, dislodges it from our physical proximity
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can take on more personal and contemporary relevance. Kieft’s understanding of narrative is perhaps informed by her work as an art therapist, an occupation where the activities of art and play are considered as bridging the gap between our inner and outer realities. Here, art is understood as creating a space in which children, for example, can practise attachment and relationships with the world around them. As therapist, Kieft facilitates and guides their creative expression, providing a ‘holding environment’, a place of safety and trust in which such relationships might be tested out and explored. But what of the capacity of an artwork itself? For a moment, at least, it can entice us outside of our own world to experience other possibilities, new configurations, unusual sensations or emotions. Can this activity contain a similar kind of ‘holding environment’? Surely, in prolonging that participation, there is particular potential in narrative art to be of therapeutic value. Kieft’s decision to employ narrative in her ceramics cannot be seen as purely incidental. Her work examines our basic human need to see ourselves reflected in the environment around us; her art encourages those same mechanisms, allowing us to consider the historic Epic of Gilgamesh as if enacted in our own time, made contemporary by our own experience of equivalent tales.
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KNOWLEDGE MAKING SEQUENCE
Photography Barbara Tipton
Katrina Chaytor in Practice
KAORI TATEBAYASHI JILL FANSHAWE KATO CHRIS KEENAN ROBERT DAWSON VALLAURIS BIENNALE
1 Cutting slab from pattern
2 Cutting slab at an angle
3 Removing clay from slab
4 Rolling slab over mould
5 Slab and tile mould
6 Beginning the body
7 Scoring the top of the body
8 Trimming top slab to fit after cutting from pattern
9 Rolling clay over texture plaster
10 Strips cut from clay form collar
11 Scoring the top slab
12 Placing top slab
13 Slab for spout with pattern from plaster tile
14 Joining the seam on spout
15 Cutting excess from spout
16 Cutting strainer holes
17 Slip on scored spout
18 Attaching spout
19 Cutting gallery for lid
20 Refining gallery
21 Cut-out as lid pattern
22 Joining lid layers after scoring
23 Removing cut-out from lid
24 Trimming excess from lid
25 Adding rim with knob in place
26 Coil for handle
27 Rolling coil for handle
28 Cutting handle shape
29 Attaching handle
30 Attaching handle
31 Securing handle seams
32 Finished teapot
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