Ceramic art installation

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Dating back to the Vikings, ryijy is a distinctly Finnish textile tradition that produces thick, high-pile tapestries and rugs. The heavily patterned works, which have shifted from functional to decorative, are made by hand-knotting wool and layering the yarn into lush, textured motifs. Drawing on her background in textile design, Finnish artist Marianne Huotari translatesContinue reading "Hundreds of Oblongs and Discs Undulate Across Marianne Huotari’s Ceramic Sculptures"

Karin Lehmann based in bern, Switzerland has been worked on one of my favorite installations ever in Münster, Germany. Sediment Sampling documents an arrangement of 200 apparently randomly smashed clay pots. The initial shifts towards a gentle decay, slow moving and unpredictable final result since all pots are in unfired state and slowly slide, split […]

Jeanne Quinn creates objects which are seemingly familiar and utilitarian, but displays them in a manner which abstracts the work formally and promotes ideas about gender, the structure of language and communication, the history of objects made for specific use, and autobiographical narrative. She is an Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Forgo florals for canopies of floating artful sculptures and avant-garde design suspended from above for a breathless reception space.

Through repetition and layering, Mari's abstract ceramic sculptures translate fluidity and movement, capturing nature’s fleeting moments—the fluid interplay of water, the gentle push of wind, and the elegant unfolding of petals, often overlooked yet rich with beauty

September 8, 2024Back in the late-1940s, when Damon Lawrence was six years old, his elementary school teacher in Los Angeles set him and his classmates a task — to draw their home. When she saw his depiction, she was perplexed. “She said, ‘That can’t be,’ because I drew a house with a flat roof, and […]