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Tag Archives: ceramics
Hermannsburg Potters
Reposting from March 2016. Originally in Hyperllergic Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery Rona Rubunjta Arrente’s “I’m Black” (2015) (left); Ngala Wheeler’s “Brotherhood” (2015) (right) in ‘Our Land is Alive: Hermannsburg Potters for Kids continues’ at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, ceramics, Contemporary art, Hyperallergic, Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne, Melissa Stern, Self-Taught artist, Visual arts
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Peace and Grief in the Art of US Veterans
Feb 13, 2017 in Hyperallergic The exhibition Not Alone provides access to a complicated and difficult subject matter that intends to open up and bridge dialogue between civilians and those who have served. Installation view, Not Alone: Exploring Bonds Between … Continue reading
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Tagged Afganistan, ceramics, Iraq, Photography, San Fransisco Arts Comission Gallery, Vietnam, war memorial
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Grayson Perry’s Subversive and Psychosexual World
in Hyperallergic on April 28, 2016 Grayson Perry, “Sex and Drugs and Earthenware” (1995) (detail), glazed ceramic, 54 x 24.5 cm (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SYDNEY — The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia has mounted the … Continue reading
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Tagged ceramics, drawing, Freud, Grayson Perry, Jung, Melissa Stern, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Pottery William Hogarth, Tapestry, Transvestite
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From Jell-O Shots to Money Scams, an Artist’s Account of Suing Her Gallery
In Hyperallergic October 7, 2015 The triple order of lime, pineapple, and cherry Jell-O should have been a tip-off. I met my art dealer at 11:30pm on a sultry spring night at a diner on the corner of 23rd and … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Dealers, ceramics, Gallery Lawsuits, Melissa Stern, New York Art Scene, Visual arts
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Viola Frey: Painterly Surfaces on Canvases of Clay
in Hyperallergic June 17, 2015 Installation view of Viola Frey, “Falling Man In Suit” (1991), ceramic, 74 x 89 x 73 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Viola Frey, a powerful woman and rule-busting artist, has not been … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area Art, ceramics, David Park, glaze, Melissa Stern, Peter Voulkos, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Arneson, Viola Frey
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Ohr what?
George Adams Gallery has mounted an exhibition of the work of George Ohr and Ron Nagle. Each had been known, in their time, for making work deemed groundbreaking and “outrageous.” George Ohr worked in the early 20th century, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Biloxi Mississippi, ceramics, George Ohr, glaze, Nagle, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art, Pottery, Ron Nagle, sculpture, The mad Potter of Biloxi
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Lost In Her Cosmos
The New York Press- Dec 5, 2012 • Rosemarie Trockel’s World on View The much-anticipated exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos now at the New Museum, is a complicated show to get one’s arms around and a hard one to love. … Continue reading