SANTA FE—Arriving at Peters Projects, you catch a glimpse of the seductive collage work of an iconic American artist as you … [Read more...]
Featured | 2017 Year-in-Review: Cfile’s Top 5 Articles
As we wind down another successful year of Cfile.org, we'd like to take a look at some of our favorite posts from 2017. … [Read more...]
Podcast | Casita Confessions with Garth Clark + Avra Leodas
SANTA FE—Welcome to Casita Confessions with Garth Clark. Cfile's new podcast featuring off-the-cuff conversations between … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Mastery is a Dead End: Daniel Johnston in Santa Fe
SANTA FE—In a recent exhibition, North Carolina-based artist Daniel Johnston presented two installations of large ceramic … [Read more...]
Podcast | Casita Confessions with Garth Clark + Gustavo Perez
Welcome to ‘Casita Confessions with Garth Clark,’ Cfile’s new podcast featuring off-the-cuff conversations between Garth and … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Virtuosity + Quiet Subversion, Gustavo Perez at Peters Projects
SANTA FE, New Mexico—As a partner to Garth Clark’s reviews of Gustavo Perez’ Gustavo Perez’s Autorretrato (Self Portrait) at … [Read more...]
Not Clay, but…| Channeling Desert, Water and Moment – ‘smallstrangething’
SANTA FE — Earlier this June, Santa Fe was treated to a small, but mega-cool, thing featuring a week-long visit from emerging … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Liminal Explorations with James Marshall’s ‘Black Interfusion’
SANTA FE, New Mexico —There are works of art which I can quickly digest and rattle off about - the process, the kinesthetic … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Rena Detrixhe’s Red Dirt Rugs – Investigations into Art + Environment
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma — As ceramic artists turn their eyes toward working within the ephemerality of earth, Oklahoma … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Daisy Quezada’s Porcelain Slip Garments Explore Identity + Place
Drawing upon the division and displacement of families affected by immigration policies, Santa Fe-based artist Daisy … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Kukuli Velarde, “Plunder Me Baby: Paintings and Sculpture”
SANTA FE, New Mexico — We've written about Peruvian artist Kukuli Velarde before on Cfile. One of her exhibition catalogs … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Doug Herren: Infra-Structure at Peters Projects, Santa Fe
SANTA FE, New Mexico — Peters Projects in Santa Fe is exhibiting Philadelphia artist Doug Herren for his first appearance in … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Jami Porter Lara Explores Plastic Bottles using Ancient Ceramic Techniques
SANTA FE — Ai Weiwei's concept behind his alterations and destruction of ancient urns is that they are the junk vessels of … [Read more...]
Campus Now Live | In 9 Months Cfile Delivers Over 100 Books and Catalogs
We're excited to announce that our member Campus is live! Through the rest of the week we will publish a series of articles … [Read more...]
Spotted | A Collection of Ceramics on Paper and Paper as Ceramics
Spotted is our weekly roundup of ephemera from the world of contemporary ceramics and contemporary ceramic art. We don't … [Read more...]
Art + Design | “Nourish” Series Creates Dinnerware from Ashes of the Deceased
SANTA FE, New Mexico — How do you have a conversation about death? In our tendency to avoid thinking about our own mortality … [Read more...]
Spotted | Russ Orlando: Modifiers, Hoeppner: Monkey God and Ben Carter Visits Meow Wolf
Welcome back again to Spotted, our beginning-of-the-week roundup of ephemera from the world of contemporary ceramic art! … [Read more...]
Exhibitions | Santa Fe Indian Market: Four Exhibitions You Should Not Miss
This week in Santa Fe culminates with the Indian Market, a Native art extravaganza that has taken place every year since 1923 … [Read more...]
cfile.library | The Final Five Garth Clark Gallery Catalogs Now Available
Garth Clark Gallery: Volume III (2003-2007) In 2008, Garth Clark Gallery closed its doors on 52nd Street in Manhattan with … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Santa Fe Home Team: This Weekend’s Christine McHorse Events
SANTA FE, New Mexico — Peters Projects is pleased to invite CFile’s readers to two events this weekend. The first is a solo … [Read more...]
Video | ClayScope Rebrands Pottery with a Hip Feel for the Digital Age
SANTA FE, New Mexico — The exhibition ClayScope Santa Fe explores physical communities fostered by digital social networks. … [Read more...]
Interview | Learn About the Art and Inspirations of Jeremy Brooks
This month our Pop-Up Shop series is hosting ceramic artist and designer Jeremy Brooks. I had the opportunity to ask him a … [Read more...]
Video | Rose B. Simpson: New Mexico Sculpture Born of Empathy
The video we have today is contemporary ceramic art from CFile's back yard. Sculptor Rose B. Simpson is from the Pueblo of … [Read more...]
Throwback 2010 | The “Piss In”: NCECA’s Critical Santa Fe Symposium
One of CFile Editor-in-Chief Garth Clark's favorite clippings in his war journal is this review by Ellen Berkovitch of a 2010 … [Read more...]
Art | Sally Anderson: New Mexico Painter Makes an Extraordinary Shift into Ceramics
I recently received a portfolio of images of ceramic sculpture by an artist, Sally Anderson, from my hometown, Santa Fe. I … [Read more...]
Video | Bas Berkhout and Marjie Kulper Illuminate Beth Cavener
CFile's exhibition, Trophies and Prey: A Contemporary Bestiary, is on display at Peters Projects in Santa Fe until Oct. 3rd. … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Installation Views of CFile’s Contemporary Ceramic Art Show in Santa Fe
Photographs are back from CFile's benefit show at Peters Projects in Santa Fe. Trophies and Prey: A Contemporary Bestiary is … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Beasts and Prey at Peters Projects to Benefit CFile Foundation
Trophies and Prey: A Contemporary Bestiary at Peters Projects, in Santa Fe (August 7 to October 3, 2015) is an engaging, … [Read more...]
Exhibition | Jeff Irwin: Sawing Wood And Other Acts Of Mutilation at R.B. Stevenson
San Diego Union Tribune reviewer Robert L. Pincus gave Jeff Irwin high praise when he described his white, porcelain … [Read more...]
Event | Garth Clark, Matt Jones and Mark Hewitt Debate the Future of Traditional Pottery at MOIFA
In 2012, the Delhom Service League invited Garth Clark to participate in a symposium called “Back to the Future of … [Read more...]
Exhibition | “Coloring Outside the Lines” at 333 Montezuma Arts, Santa Fe
From our stomping grounds in sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico comes an exhibition that draws on the talents of Mary Lee Bendolph, … [Read more...]
CFile Shop | Virgil Ortiz’s Translator Plates Bring the Past to the Present via the Future
Using his unique combination of history and science fiction, Virgil Ortiz has created four graphically stunning limited … [Read more...]
Exhibition | The Royal Breadshow by Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe
Axle Contemporary is an art gallery that operates out of the back of a retrofitted 1970s van in CFile's hometown of Santa Fe. … [Read more...]