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The New Age of Ceramics
2016
While most surveys of contemporary art focus largely on two-dimensional work, there is a growing movement of emerging as well as established artists that are producing work in the ceramic medium, creating three dimensional work that is groundbreaking in scope.
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Working in clay or porcelain and utilizing traditional methods such as wheel throwing or hand building, artists use their talents often honed in other media to create unique work that is truly one of a kind.
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Whether a sculptural piece, traditional vessel or a large-scale installation, they are constrained only by their imaginations and the nature of the material. Contains process shots of the artists at work as well as a voyeurs glimpse into their studios.
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Tempest
10/06/2016 - 20/11/2016
Nature Morte
2013
Combining magic, strange and mythological creatures, calamities, lovers, buffoonery, exiled noblemen, and evoking a new world opening out from the exploratory activities of Elizabethan England, The Tempest has compelled and confounded scholars for centuries. Described as a 'romance' within Shakespeare's oeuvre, it contains all the traditional ingredients of the form, but seems ethereal at times, and flung out into a newer cosmos of theatrical adventure.
The Tempest is set in an imaginary place. Unfixed, weird and other-worldly in character: a site of contradictions and confusions.
Leading artists of the twenty-first century are reviving the still life, a genre that once was more associated with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters than with contemporary art. The audacious still lifes celebrated here challenge that historical supremacy and redefine what it means to be a work of nature morte (literally translated from the French: “dead nature”). Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries-old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy.