DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022C Fall Exhibit: More Clay: The Power of Repetition:
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Curated by Rebecca Cross
September 10 – December 11, 2022
Transcending the structural limitations of clay and abandoning the material’s traditional association with function, these eight artists build powerful ceramic sculptures through accumulation, repetition, and innovative feats of construction. This exhibition demonstrates the power of assembling multiples as a compelling vehicle for the artists to express their chosen subject-matter as they transform this humble, sustainable material…dirt! into something monumental in form and content. More Clay aims to physically demonstrate the unifying principle of “out of many, one” a concept absent in today’s fractured society.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- CLAY_220910_024.JPG: KATE ROBERTS
Gates to Nowhere, 2022 Unfired porcelain, fiber, fishing line
Courtesy of the artist
Robert's monumental gates, suspended from above and built drip by drip from delicate, thread-like units of unfired clay, look like an exalted spiritual entryway. But is it a passage beckoning into a secret garden? Or is it a barrier, a gated community? The ephemeral nature of Roberts' raw clay underscores ever-shifting lines of exclusion, the fleeting nature of our own lives, and the built environments we create. Like a mandala, the gates will be destroyed after the exhibition.
- CLAY_220910_029.JPG: Kate Roberts
Gates to Nowhere, 2022
- CLAY_220910_047.JPG: Vanessa Ryerse
Rend and ReMember, 2022
- CLAY_220910_072.JPG: VANESSA RYERSE
Rend and ReMember, 2022 Porcelain mosaic relief on wood panels
Courtesy of the artist
Fifteen feet of shattered blue and white "Willow Ware" style adds up to thousands of discarded and repurposed plates and vessels in Vanessa Ryerse's mosaics. Her sea of shards taps into the extraordinary success of the global Chinese export-ware industry and the five centuries of duplicates and adaptations from Meissen, to Wedgewood infiltrating society's dinner tables across the world. So ubiquitous are the imitations that even in the 21st century, in the deep Midwest, there is an abundance available in the flea markets where the artist sources her material. It is hard to think of a more profound aesthetic conquest of the world. The artist talks about the "brokenness and healing" of the shattered states souvenir plates united in her relief, a togetherness not shared in the rest of the United States.
- CLAY_220910_097.JPG: Kahlil Robert Irving
[ STREET & Stars | (Memories <> Matter) fair and FREEDOM ] Black ICE, 2019
- CLAY_220910_098.JPG: KAHLIL ROBERT IRVING
[ STREET & Stars | (Memories <> Matter) fair and FREEDOM] Black ICE, 2019
Glazed and unglazed stoneware and white clay, grog, decals, luster, gilded pyrometric cones
Courtesy of the artist and the Ferring Collection
Irving's stoneware tile piece, echoing asphalt, hovers off the ground like a floating street that mirrors the night sky of the artist's dreams. Irving uses collage, decals, digitally printed material and actual detritus embedded in the multiple clay panels to recreate the experience of the cityscape from a bird's-eye view. His pioneering work with clay assemblage beautifully and uncomfortably recreates an everyday landscape of littered sidewalks with torn bits of newspapers announcing the latest violence against African Americans amongst the cigarette packages and social media fragments. The repetition of eighty oversized tiles creates the bold scale and magnifies its black power.
- CLAY_220910_109.JPG: J.J. McCracken
Fruit for Geophages (Hunger), 2022
- CLAY_220910_115.JPG: J.J. MCCRACKEN
Fruit for Geophages (Hunger), 2022 Slip-cast locally dug clay, vitrine
"Hunger,"
remastered 2022, with Ornette Hawkins
video, soundscape
Courtesy of the artist and Connersmith, Washington, DC
McCracken's work confronts the inequality in America's food system, where food is produced in great abundance and yet so many still go hungry. The film of McCracken's 2010 performance, shows her clay-drenched women eating multiple clay casts of fruits and vegetables to expressively demonstrate this disturbing contradiction. The artist plumbs the depths of hunger, of malnutrition, using geophagy (earth eating) to build an experiential work where consumption abounds but the "food" is devoid of nutritional value. The fragile clay artifacts that remain are presented here in a museum vitrine to elevate them as sacred objects, imbuing them with historical meaning and refocusing our attention on the issue of food scarcity.
- CLAY_220910_121.JPG: More Clay!
The Power of Repetition
Curated by Rebecca Cross
- CLAY_220910_128.JPG: Transcending the structural limitations of clay and abandoning the material's traditional association with function, these eight artists build powerful ceramic sculptures through accumulation, repetition, and innovative feats of construction. This exhibition demonstrates the power of assembling multiples as a compelling vehicle for the artists to express their chosen subject matter as they transform this humble, sustainable material...dirt! into something monumental in form, scale and content.
Thank you to Susan and Dixon Butler for their generous support of this exhibition.
Special thanks to the following who made MORE CLAY! and the accompanying catalog possible:
Tracey Weisler
Wendy & William Garner
Lee Arrowood-Fleisher Arrowood of Compass
Skanby+Gould Foundation
Diane Silber in memory of Igal Silber
James Renwick Alliance for Craft
Larry Hawk
Arlen Dominek and A.J. Young
Margo Reid and Greg Simon
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Diane Rosenstein Gallery
Susan & Steven Bralove
Anne, Burt & Sascha Fishman
Giorgio Furioso
Ken Schaner
John and Susan B. Magee
Marsha Gold
Mara Gladstone
Gail Severn Gallery
- CLAY_220911_009.JPG: Walter McConnell
Theory of Everything: Odd Lot Ancestries, 2022
- CLAY_220911_057.JPG: Kate Roberts
Gates to Nowhere, 2022
- CLAY_220911_079.JPG: David Hicks
Poly Panel Triptych, 2022
- CLAY_220911_098.JPG: Bean Finneran
Orange Ring, 2022
(approx. 12,000 curves)
- CLAY_220911_113.JPG: Kahlil Robert Irving
[ STREET & Stars | (Memories <> Matter) fair and FREEDOM ] Black ICE, 2019
- CLAY_220911_136.JPG: Zimra Beiner
Tools with No Purpose -- Gray Alphabet, 2015, revised 2022
- CLAY_220911_165.JPG: District Clay
- CLAY_220911_182.JPG: J. J. McCracken
Fruit for Geophages (Hunger), 2022
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