Try again. Fail again. Fail better. @cherry and martin

Another show to be aware of. From the press release:
Cherry and Martin is pleased to present Try again. Fail again. Fail better. This exhibition examines four artists’ explorations of ceramics and the inherent nature of its process, contributing authentic voices to the conversation surrounding clay. Artists working today are continually embracing modes of the medium, often freeing it from the rooted sense of tradition and functionality, but ever interested in the physical ‘making’ of art. The show title, taken from Samuel Beckett’s 1983 prose Worstword Ho, emphasizes the chance driven process that is often part of working with clay. Multiple attempts are made, fired, re-fired, glazed, glazed again, assembled, re-assembled, and so forth. The unfolding of this progression is ultimately what draws us to the final objects.

Louisiana State University Ceramics Graduate Student Slide Talks — UARK / Ceramics

In an effort to reach build bridges to our peer institutions in the region, we're excited to be hosting the graduate students and post-bac ceramics students of Louisiana State University. Each student will give a short talk, and there will be time at the end of the presentations for questions. This is the first part of an exchange that continue when our graduate students and post-bacs travel to LSU in January to give talks and put up an exhibition. Friday September 18th, 2015. 2PM in the ceramics studio.

Current LSU grad, Bri Ozanne

Sunkoo Yuh Workshop at University of Tulsa

Monday and Tuesday, September 28th and 29th, artist Sunkoo Yuh will be lecturing and demonstrating at the University of Tulsa. Demos run from 9-4 Monday and Tuesday. The lecture is at 4 on Monday. This is great opportunity if you have the time to make it over to Tulsa! 

Artist Bio:
he ceramic sculpture of SunKoo Yuh, who was born in South Korea in 1960 and immigrated to the United States in 1988, is composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art and Buddhist and Confucian beliefs inform some aspects of his imagery, his work is largely driven by implied narratives that often suggest socio-political critiques. The Rubin Center has exhibited two monumental columns that showcase Yuh’s mastery of the complex narrative and of the ceramic medium. Yuh’s work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among others. 

SunKoo Yuh is currently Associate Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens.  He received his MFA from Alfred University. He has exhibited widely and has received many awards and honors.  In 2005-03 he was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition, Icheon, Korea, The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation.  His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea,  Oakland Museum of Art, California, and more.

Johan CRETEN God is a Stranger - Galerie Perrotin

Sep 9th - Oct 31, 2015

Dear Tea Bowl - Salon 94

Takuro Kuwata's at Salon 94. From the press release, "

Salon 94 is pleased to present Dear Tea Bowl by Japanese artist, Takuro Kuwata, his second solo exhibition with the gallery. As the title suggests, the works in the show engage the viewer in the sensual manner akin to lips touching a teacup or rice bowl. Yet, Kuwata’s ceramics are earthquakes in which the glazes shatter, re-shape, melt, unravel, stick, poke and create a feeling of the artist’s geographical origins. As Jeffrey Uslip describes in his recent article in Kaleidoscope Magazine, “while not explicitly engaged with national issues of destruction, [the work] provides an aesthetic correlation to Japan’s recent natural and social disasters.”

Kuwata mixes an artificial palette of glazes with that of natural elements, presenting monumental and intimate objects. Polychromatic vessels, otherworldly mushrooming clouds, gold and silver totems and bulbous fruit like shapes people his landscapes in clay.  Here, function follows form, science meets chance, and the crude and delicate coalesce."

2016 National Student Juried Exhibition | NCECA :: National Council On Education For The Ceramic Arts

Get your applications ready! September 23rd is the deadline!

LaLaLand Launches "One Nite Standard" Exhibition Series

Starting September 3rd, LaLaLand will be bringing us one-night-only exhibitions each month for the 2015-2016 school year. Organizer Sam King, writes of the series, "The platform is simple: small group exhibitions, featuring one work per artist for one night only. The series embraces the absurdity of attempting to understand an artist’s oeuvre based on any single work by that artist, and the excitement of discovering unexpected synchronicities when multiple artists show side by side."

Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay @ Sun Valley Center for the Arts

July 10 - September 18, 2015

William J. Obrien, Annabeth Rosen, Alwyn O'Brien, and Linda Lopez

Coop Gallery » Tooth, Bark, and the Laws of Contact: Linda Lopez, September 2015

Linda Lopez: Tooth, Bark, and the Laws of Contact
September 5th-26th – Opening Reception September 5th, 6-9pm

COOP Gallery is pleased to present “Linda Lopez: Tooth, Bark, and the Laws of Contact,” an exhibition continuing Lopez’s investigation into ways of considering the lives, histories, and emotions of the mundane objects we encounter daily. In these mixed-media works, colorful and poetic vignettes populate the gallery space—each composition a carefully orchestrated scene of Lopez’s invented domestic characters where she explores the relationship between subject and object.

Lopez says of the work, “These observations present abstracted instances of connectivity in past encounters between ourselves and objects. I am searching for an intangible affinity that captures the communication between people and things. In this realm, logic is lost, objects are personified, perception is ever-changing, and things become their true self.”

More about the Artist

Linda Lopez (b. 1981 Visalia, California) received a BFA in ceramics and BA in art education from California State University of Chico. She received a MFA in ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lopez has exhibited her work in New Zealand and throughout the United States including Robischon Gallery, Denver; Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia. She has been an artist in residence at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia and the Archie Bray Foundation. In 2015, Lopez was included in theState of the Art Exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and featured in American Craft Magazine. Lopez is currently represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL.

Website: lindalopez.net

Visiting Artist Lecture: Margaret Meehan

The ceramics area is pleased to bring Dallas artist, curator, writer, and all-around smarty-pants, Margaret Meehan to campus for studio visits and a visiting artist lecture. Meehan is also currently organizing an exhibition for the Fine Arts Gallery to open in January. We're excited to be working so closely with Margaret this year, and looking forward to seeing her contributions to the department.

Margaret's upcoming lecture will be held at Hillside Auditorium, room 206. Thursday, September 10th at 5:30 PM

http://margaretmeehan.net

Archie Bray Foundation | Call for Entries

Beyond the Brickyard, 2015 edition! Deadline is September 15th. Follow the link for more information.

Call For Entries — Rosenzweig 2015

Deadline August 8th

First Place Prize in the Philadelphia Clay Studio's Annual MBK Graduate Exhibition goes to 2nd yr. Ceramics Grad, Chris Drobnock!

Chris Drobnock, current MFA ceramics grad at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, had two artworks accepted into the 12th Annual Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition at the Philadelphia Clay Studio and was awarded the First Place Prize of $1,000.

The exhibition is on view from June 26th to August 2nd, 2015 at the Philadelphia Clay Studio located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Way to go Chris!

The full show can be seen online here.

Current MFA Student shows work in 9th Annual Master Pieces Exhibition at Manifest Gallery

Katrina Rattermann, current 1st year MFA Ceramics grad at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, was accepted into the 9th Annual Master Pieces exhibition at Manifest Gallery located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Above is an image of her work, Bleeding Heart, Part II, installed at Manifest Gallery. Rattermann spent the week leading up to the opening of the exhibition installing her mixed media installation on site.

Background: The Master Pieces exhibition is an exhibit of works by current or recent graduates of MFA programs across the United States. This 9th installment of the Master Pieces project continues to reveal the intensity and professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in the field of art or design. The works selected for this exhibition are believed to be works that in the truest sense of the term are "contemporary masterpieces" – in other words, works that set the standard of quality that the artist is expected to maintain throughout his or her professional career and justify the degree of Master. All 5 of Manifest's exhibit spaces are devoted to the 9th Annual Master Pieces exhibition. This is the only exhibit to-date which is presented throughout the entire gallery facility.

The 9th Annual Master Pieces exhibition is on view from July 10th to August 7th, 2015 at Manifest Gallery located in Cincinnati, Ohio. There will be an opening reception held on Friday, July 10th from 6-9pm. If you are in the area, check it out!

To view a full description of the Master Pieces exhibition, click here.

KCAI BFA Exhibition

Hey undergrads!

You should hop in your car this weekend and head to Kansas City to check out their BFA show! As you know, KCAI has some really great ceramics students, and this would be a good opportunity for you to see what the work of your peers looks like. 

An opening preview for the 2015 Annual B.F.A. Exhibition will be held on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the H&R Block Artspace at KCAI, 16 E. 43rd St. The exhibition features works by more than 120 B.F.A. candidates from KCAI majoring in animation, art history, ceramics, creative writing, digital filmmaking, digital media, fiber graphic design, illustration, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

http://www.kcai.edu/artspace/exhibitions/8502/2015-annual-bfa-exhibition-april-18-may-16-2015

For those of you heading to New York City in May: A list of Brooklyn Galleries from ArtNet that hold potential for art.

https://news.artnet.com/market/15-brooklyn-galleries-to-know-272519

Installation view of "Time Remembered" at William Arnold. 
Photo: Courtesy of William Arnold.

Olivier Van Herpt

Some pretty good looking 3D printed clay...

Jeannie Hulen at GRIN Gallery

Gibberish: Sapient Fool’s Gold a solo art exhibition by Jeannie Hulen, associate professor of ceramics at the University of Arkansas, will run March 25-May 2 at the GRIN Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island.

The show is presented in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 2015 annual conference and calls attention to less evident aspects of the relationship between people and the natural world. The exhibition considers intellectual and psychological aspects of the natural world and explores various facets of the symbiosis between the two.

“Humor, sarcasm and outright disdain for popular and contemporary culture have been expressed through use of materials,” said Hulen, chair of the Department of Art in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. “My work consistently draws on ceramic’s post-industrial and consumer meaning and references the material value and historical significance of terracotta and porcelain.”