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…
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…
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…
The Prime of Ms Ebony Russell
by Nikki GemmellSydney ceramicist Ebony Russell may be cackling like a witchy godmother in the darkest of fairy tales as she whips up her luscious creations, but there’s challenging thought behind all that dripping,…
Swansong: Hiroe Swen’s farewell to ceramics
Uncompromised (shown through March and April, 2025) at Skepsi Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is Hiroe Swen’s swansong, her farewell to both ceramics and to the country she has called home for over ha…
The Illusion of Ke Hegen’s Glazes
The rise of high-temperature color glaze is undoubtedly one of the biggest changes in Jingdezhen in the past decade. These glazes, originally intended for decorating utility objects, have gradually be…