Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around? MoNA Ceramic Invitational 2025 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington USA January 25 – May 11, 2025
by Matthew KangasFirst, in a series of medium-based annual invitational shows, Build Me Up, Tear Me Down, Why Don’t You Love Me Babe Like There’s No One Around? (January 25 – May 11, 2025, Museum of Northwest Art, La…
Marie Herwald Hermann at Broadway Gallery, New York
If I had to make a general statement about the ceramics currently so prominent in New York City, I would cite large scale, bright color and heavy texture as the preferred options. None of those charac…
Gregory Pierce: Beneath, Betwixt, Between / A Dim Flicker
It was an encounter with Chinese scholar stones at the Fogg Museum of Harvard University in 1994 that triggered a long body of work Gregory Pierce has been addressing for the last decade or so. In add…
Power Platform: Reinhold Rieckmann’s Imaginary Classical Period
by Chen Jian, Song qingluIn Rieckmann’s ceramic sculpture series, Road to Power, the impermanent social systems and their overt aesthetic features persistently thread through the conceptualization of the works. He iterates th…
The 25th anniversary of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics
The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery will announce and celebrate this year, the 25th winner of the Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics. The Award was founded and funded by Winifred Shantz (1923-2012)…
Jiha Moon: “Fool’s Moon” at Derek Eller Gallery, New York
This exhibition of Jiha Moon’s ceramics and paintings was so packed with color and motion that one might first see it as expressing hysteria. A second impression might be joy. And a third thought is t…