Robert Brady, in Retrospect
by Elaine Olafson HenryRobert Brady was born in Reno, Nevada, a gaming city known as “The Biggest Little City in the World”. He took a high school craft class that gave him, “that sense of complete control, authorship, and…
Jaeyoun’s Recent Works,
My current feelings are not as solid as I expected them to be as a child; they are still immature. Trying to represent my feelings, the characters in my work unfold as a variety of narratives, which a…
The Courage to Move: Pinar Baklan
Ceramics – one of the world’s oldest artistic media – continues to captivate and evolve. Once primarily functional, the medium has grown into a deeply conceptual and expressive form of visual art. Acr…
Keith Schneider’s Ceramic Figures (How Toys Become Real)
by Gabrielle GopinathKeith Schneider’s ceramic figures should come with an advisory: close looking may prompt flashbacks and initiate spontaneous incursions of memory. Schneider uses clay to construct two and four-legged…
The Devil’s Interval: Tom Bartel and his Sculpture
I. THE LENS OF THE AUTHOR Several years before this one, I was a frequent contributor to journals such as this. But life will change on its own accord, and for the last few years my occupation has bee…
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…