The Nanjing Massacre Ceramic Shoes Exhibition: An interview with artist Wang Cheng
by Ren MinIn order to commemorate his compatriots killed by the Japanese army in the bloody massacre, Wang Cheng, a potter from Nanjing, designed and created ceramic shoes for the Qingming Festival. The 80 pair…
Flaming Fingers: An Exhibition of the Work of Trudy Chiddix
A passionate world traveler, Trudy Chiddix divulges, through the work in this exhibition, that her international experiences have irrefutably reconfigured her and will, potentially, reconfigure her vi…
Swaying Vessels in Space/time: Recent works by Lee Jong-Min
Lee Jong-Min’s works clearly demonstrate how closely correlated materials and tools used in crafts are to the senses, and attitudes of, the artists who use them. Lee’s use of tools are not the categor…
Magdalene A.N. Odundo DBE at Salon 94, NYC
by Janet KoplosIn her first New York solo show since 1991, Magdalene Odundo − born in Kenya, raised in India and long resident in England − had the appropriate good fortune of being presented in the second round of…
Waiting for Miracles −the Creative Outlook of Bauhaus’ Descendant. An Interview with Lutz Konecke
I still remember that I was just a beginner of ceramics when I first saw Lutz Konecke in Prof. Ralf Butz’s glaze class. Giving me his German-style meticulous class notes, Lutz said, “Don’t worry. Ther…
Derek Weisberg at Trotter&Sholer, NYC
A human being consists of a collection of parts – a collage of experiences and influences he has consciously and unconsciously absorbed and incorporated in his make-up. What it is that makes each pers…