SITE131 welcomes the Fall 2018 season with CLAY + Things set for September 8 ~ December 14, 2018. The presentation includes Texas ceramicists Eric & Morgan Grasham’s curious taxidermy and clay figures, Julia Jalowiec’s jolly figurative groupings, Jessica Kreutter’s mysterious global composites, Shelby David Meier’s re-imagined porcelain objects, Brian Molanphy’s wall-hung invented shapes, and Angel Oloshove’s brilliantly colored globes. New York artist Jenny Hata Blumenfield contributes wall-mounted relief tile “paintings.”
With an early background in ceramics, director Joan Davidow curates CLAY + Things, and states, “Each artist has a particular way of viewing the world and interpreting it in clay, a medium that hearkens back thousands of years and stays current to today.”
Hopefulness appears in Houston artist Jessica Kreutter’s structures that look like a world in collapse. Her work often begins with an abandoned found object. For Kreutter, nature, which may begin as a tree stump, is in collapse, and with persistence, it rebuilds itself. To emphasize the work’s hereditary nature, the artist presses designs from reclaimed antiques into the clay. The large-scale composites show an accumulation on the forest floor. Glazed in bright colors, they give the viewer a vibrant hope for the future.
These seven talented ceramists give us their view of the world in three dimensions. Their multiple approaches will enhance the viewers’ experience with new ways of seeing and translating life today.
At the southeast end of the Design District, SITE131 at 131 Payne Street, Dallas 75207, gears up for fall. SITE131, will be open Fridays noon ~ 5pm and by appointment. Special tours can be arranged. Director|curator Joan Davidow and assistant to director Stephanie DeLay can be reached online at SITE131.com or at hello@site131.com.