Welcome to Spotted, your weekly round-up of exciting gems from the worlds of contemporary ceramic art and contemporary ceramics. This week we’re diving in with a crystalline vase by Kate Malone, her contribution to the UK Crafts Council Auction 2017 (see featured image).
Above image: Kate Malone, Jewel Magma Vase, 2015, Ceramic: Crystalline-glazed stoneware, 10 3/8 x 12 1/4 x 10 5/8. Image courtesy of Adrian Sassoon.
That’s not all. The auction (which is now closed, sorry!) included works from Clare Twomey and Julian Stair.
Clare Twomey, Piece by Piece figurine, 2014, Porcelain and gold enamel. Image courtesy of Gardiner Museum. Click for larger image.
Julian Stair, Five Cups on a Ground, 2016, Colored porcelain, Keuper marl, porcelain, clear glaze, basalt, valchromat and Venetian plaster, 6 7/8 x 17 3/4 x 4 inches. Image by Julian Stair. Click for larger image.
Andile Dyalvane
Andile Dyalvane, Scarified Red/Blue honeycomb vase, 2015, White stoneware clay, 9 2/5 x 7 9/10 inches. Offered by 50 Golborne, London. Click for larger image.
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Dyalvane says his current inspirations are drawn from his immediate environment, inner city urban life, and its relation to where he comes from.
Andile Dyalvane, Soze Nyanga, 2015, Black Clay, 19 x 30 x 23 1/4 inches. Offered by Friedman Benda, New York. Click for a larger image.
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Liliana Porter
Liliana Porter, Reconstrucción Paisdaje Chino, 2015, Broken porcelain plate and acrylic on canvas, 10 inches. Offered by Espacio Mínimo, Madrid. Click for larger image.
Porter juxtaposes figurines of popular cultural icons, children’s toys, and other kitsch objects in surreal compositions, so that unlikely relationships emerge—to unsettling or fantastical effect.
Arlene Shechet
Arlene Shechet, Almost an Event, 2015, Glazed ceramic and concrete, 9 1/10 x 9 2/5 x 7 3/10 inches. Image courtesy Sacha Feldman. Offered by Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien. Click for a larger image.
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Shechet’s clay forms seem at once to soar and sag with an off-kilter sense of gravity and humor which evoke bodily organs or bulbous creatures, while others are more architectural, built up with bricks that meld into slippery slopes. “I am trying to have the viewer find a kind of empathy with the experience of these body-sized pieces finding their balance,” she said in an Artsy editorial.
Brendan Tang
Brendan Tang, Manga Ormolou Ver. 5.0s, 2015, Ceramic, 25 x 16 x 16 inches. Offered by Gallery Jones, Vancouver. Click for a larger image.
Tang’s practice embodies the influences, tensions and contradictions that define the postmodern world. His work exhibits the paradoxical tendency to be irreverent, frivolous, and playful, as well as thoroughly engaged in critical reflection. Tang draws inspiration from diverse realms of contemporary pop culture, art history, and historical and contemporary practices in self-portraiture to abstract and configure images, forms and colors within a narrative.
Tony Moore
Tony Moore, Earth and Sky, 2009, wood-fired ceramic and glass, 14 x 15.5 x 17.5 inches, Offered by The Schelfhaudt Gallery, CT.
Tony Moore, Earth and Sky (detail), 2009, 1wood-fired ceramic and glass, 4 x 15.5 x 17.5 inches. Offered by The Schelfhaudt Gallery, CT.
Moore‘s Selfie: An exhibition of self-portraits opened earlier this month at The Schelfhaudt Gallery (Bridgeport, Connecticut February 1 –April 8, 2017). Moore’s work is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature; the concept of “Nature” as embodying all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-political events, daily occurrences, as well as private intuitions that are made concrete through creative action.
Tony Moore, Aperture, 2009, wood-fired ceramic and glass, 9.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 inches. Offered by The Schelfhaudt Gallery, CT.
Tony Moore, Aperture (detail), 2009, wood-fired ceramic and glass, 9.5 x 14.5 x 14.5 inches. Offered by The Schelfhaudt Gallery, CT.
Matt Jones
Matt Jones, work in progress. Click for a larger image.
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Cfile previously wrote, “Jones not only illustrates his work with beautifully and well-rendered flora and fauna but much of his work in the past few years has incorporated a narrative element. Much of this narrative is either political or art historically charged.” Jones‘ latest work in progress is born from this narrative style as his ceramic art serves as a billboard for his irreverent and playful humor.
Do you love or loathe these works of contemporary ceramics and contemporary ceramic art? Let us know in the comments.
Tony Moore’s ceramic sculptures beg one to linger. The combination of elements are stunning. That they are made with precision allows the beauty of their converse materials to reverberate.
Tony Moore’s ceramic sculpture is powerful and all encompassing of splashes of beauty, inspiration, reflection, introspection, declaration, outward and inward motion. The clay forms are complex and fascinating– visually, historically and culturally. The juxtaposition of the figurative and the symbolic/abstract is perfectly balanced and wonderful to behold.
Yes, Tony Moore’s sculptural use of the ceramic medium brings insight and beauty together in these pieces. They are self portraits sans ego…or maybe the clay self expands to include the whole earth.
Tony has made work since the1970s that is about his spiritual evolution. Today we can see the fruit of years of work not only in ceramics, but also in his drawings and paintings.
Tony Moore’s masterful art in clay, shown here, happily in several examples, brings this viewer to a contemplation of the human condition itself. I marvel at Tony’s shamanic use of his own image as a portal to the dilemma of all humankind.
powerful work in clay ..Tony Moore’s complex sculptural forms are beautifully crafted and speak to our connections with the seen and unseen world
wonderful show..Tony Moore’s work especially evokes the inherent connections between man made and organic process
I was moved by the personal nature of the work
Tony Moore’s pieces beautifully balance process with content.
These are deeply personal and visually evocative works of art.
Thank you for the excellent photos of Tony Moore’s work. I knew him in the UK and rely on Facebook images to keep up to date with his very innovative creations – these are beautiful and thought-provoking.
Thanks for posting images of my work which are included in the group exhibition, “Selfie — An exhibition of self-portraits” at The Shelfhaudt Gallery, Univ. of Bridgeport, CT thru March 18. http://www.TonyMooreArt.com http://www.shelfhaudtgallery.com