May 22, 2022 — January 8, 2023
Conceived through a partnership with The Color Network, Grounds For Sculpture presents an exhibition titled Fragile: Earth opening in May 2022. The Color Network’s mission is to aid in the advancement of people of color in the ceramic arts. Their focus includes exhibitions, an online database, community events, and mentorship.
Fragile: Earth frames artists’ reflections on social, environmental, and individual perceptions of fragility through the unique materiality of clay and ceramics. Metaphorically, clay perfectly embodies the duality of fragility. Soft and vulnerable when unfired, however it is also flexible and forgiving. When fired it is solid and strong but can easily shatter. How do the facets of fragility manifest in the world, in our society, and in our personal lives? This exhibition is an exploration of vulnerability as strength, the faults of a strong façade, and the fragility of entities we take for granted, such as nature and government, amid ongoing global health and social crises.
This exhibition is guest curated by Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy (She/Her), a New York and Los Angeles-based curator, writer, and arts administrator of contemporary art and craft. Her current research focuses on the subversive power of humor, cuteness, and leisure as tools of protest. Amplifying the voices of BIPOC artists is central to her practice. She recently served as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), NY where she helped the curatorial team organize over twenty exhibitions since 2016, including 2021s Craft Front & Center. She also oversaw MAD’s Burke Prize, a prestigious contemporary craft award. Recent projects include exhibitions Sleight of Hand (2020) at the Center for Craft, NC, where she was a 2020 curatorial fellow, and Clay Is Just Thick Paint (2020) at Greenwich House Pottery, NY. She has also contributed to Cultured and American Craft magazines and catalogs at MAD and the Bemis Center for Con ...More...
underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.
") are described as follows: