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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. |