May 22, 2022 — January 8, 2023
This exhibition presents work by ceramicist, performance artist, and educator, Roberto Lugo. A master of ceramics, Lugo creates vessels that reference traditional European and Asian decorative arts, blended with iconography from Afro-Latino heritage and Hip Hop culture. His surface treatment is a mixture of traditional design, graffiti, and portraiture focusing on representation of iconic people of color from contemporary culture and history.
The centerpiece of this exhibition is a large scale vessel Lugo designed and painted during his residency at GFS over the winter of 2022 titled Put Yourself in the Picture. Created in partnership with The Seward Johnson Atelier and the Digital Atelier, this work presented Lugo with a new avenue of working, on a scale not easily achievable with clay, presenting the opportunity for the artist to expand his practice in new ways. While completing this large work, Lugo also converted space in this building into a ceramics studio, and he created and fired on site a series of large-scale ceramic vessels which are on display in this exhibition.
Lugo has said that “It takes a village to make a potter.” On the Museum Mezzanine Lugo has curated a companion exhibition of works by his mentors and mentees, those who recognized his talents and offered support as he was finding his way. Lugo has paid that forward through his mentorship of students at Tyler School of Art where he teaches ceramics, and through offering mentorship outside the classroom through his Philadelphia studio and endless support of the ceramic community at large.
Expanding on the belief that art is for everyone, the gallery also features a maker space for drop-in engagement allowing visitors, of any skill level, an opportunity to nurture their inner artist and to get their hands in some clay. This space offers an open invitation to become part of village as you explore the joy of making.
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