I'm humbled and excited to have had Greenwich House exhibition so favorably reviewed by the one and only Garth Clark! Follow the link below the image for the article...
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It's almost time! This year we have nearly 25 students that will be making the trek north to experience NCECA's 50th annual conference! It's going to be a good one. As always, UARK will have a table in the resource hall, and faculty and students will be participating in a number of exhibitions. In order to help you keep it all straight, here's a short list of UARK exhibitions and openings:
Linda
Sight Unseen
KC Convention Center, 301 W 13th St
Opening: Wednesday 5-6:45
Mathew
#F*nked!
Dodge Painting Building at KCAI, 4446 Oak St
Opening: Thursday 5-9
Chris, Raven, Lindsey, Mikayla
National Student Juried Exhibition
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Ave
Opening: Thursday 6-8
Mathew and Linda
Now and Then
Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, 3218 Gladstone Ave
Opening: Friday 5:30-7
Mathew
Accessibility by Design
Vulpes Bastille, 1737 Locust St
Opening: Friday 6-9
Jeannie, Laura, Chris, A-Tien
Generations
Filipino Cultural Center, 9810 W 79th St. Overland Park
Opening: Saturday 2-4
Kensuke
The Nevica Project
Cerebra Gallery, 2011 Baltimore Ave
No opening
Kensuke
Sante Fe Clay Presents La Mesa
Central Exchange, 1020 Central Street
No opening
Adam
The Clay Studio (Gallery Expo)
KC Convention Center, 301 W 13th St
No opening
There will be a ton to do and see in KC. Make sure you prepare in advance and have a plan for your days. As an additional help, here's a pdf guide that I have highlighted some of the exhibitions I am most looking forward to seeing and that I would highly recommend. Download the pdf here.
Join Garth Clark at Belger Crane Yard Studios as he discusses the collecting of ceramics. Garth Clark is the Editor-in-Chief for CFile’s publishing projects, journal and news magazine. Irving Blum, the pioneering contemporary art dealer who launched Andy Warhol, Ken Price and Andrew Lord’s careers calls Clark “ceramics’ great clarifier.” The Mather Award jury of the College Art Association (Clark was the 2005 award winner) wrote that his writings “have shaped thought about the field of ceramics and indeed the field itself.” A hydra-headed force in the field, Clark has received many honors; Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London, several honorary doctorates and lifetime achievement awards, the “Art Book of the Year” award from Art Libraries Society of North America, medals from the Independent Publishers Association and others. He is author of over sixty books and several hundred reviews and essays.
2011 Tracy Ave, Kansas City, Missouri 64108
This coming week, we'll be hosting Sean O'Connell as a visiting artist in the ceramics area. Sean's work will be familiar to anyone who has held more than a passing interest in clay. His works have been exhibited everywhere, and for good reason. Sean's pots exude character and confidence—and we're lucky to have scheduled a lecture with Sean and a few hours simply to watch Sean at work.
Sean currently teaches ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but originally was from right here in Fayetteville. Sean has a BFA in sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute and and MFA from School for American Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been a resident at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts and the Archie Bray Foundation, among other places. We're lucky to have him here, and we hope you'll make some time to join us.
Sean's lecture will be held at November 12th at 5:30 PM, in Hillside Auditorium.
Sean's demo will be held in the Ceramics Studio, at 326 Eastern Ave, starting at 10AM.
Hi, everyone! Just in case you didn't get the chance to catch it in the studio copy of Ceramics Monthly, here's a link to my recent article. Take a look if you have a few minutes!
Review: ‘Ron Nagle: Five O’Clock Shadow,’ Delicacy and Tension on a Small Scale - The New York Times
A great review of Ron Nagle's new show at Mathew Marks.
Wishing I could see this show in person. Here's a snippet from the NYTimes write-up:
“There’s been an ongoing perception that those who work in clay are somehow working in a lesser medium, and their work isn’t often displayed in the same manner as painting and sculpture,” Mr. Reynolds said. Challenging that convention, “The Ceramic Presence” showcases modern and contemporary ceramics alongside significant paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the same period.
“Our intention is to break down the barrier,” he said. “Rather than argue about it, we thought, let’s show how it can be done.”
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.
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
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.
Sep 9th - Oct 31, 2015
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."
Get your applications ready! September 23rd is the deadline!
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."
July 10 - September 18, 2015
William J. Obrien, Annabeth Rosen, Alwyn O'Brien, and Linda Lopez
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
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
Beyond the Brickyard, 2015 edition! Deadline is September 15th. Follow the link for more information.
Deadline August 8th
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.