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"CROCKERY" March 25 through June 27, 2005 |
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Curated by: LORI ORTIZ Curatorial Statement Bio |
Three Brooklyn painters in Crockery use dishes to make art. Working in divergent ways, they underscore arts non-utilitarian function by mining the formal or conceptual in their subject. In doing so, they communicate that deep unspeakable connection. Susan Hamburger's dinnerware sets are decorated with delicately hand wrought scenes of historic Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She puts an ironic twist on the collectible souvenir. Hamburger exhibits her paintings and installations extensively in Brooklyn and beyond. An installation of her plates was seen in Cuchifrito's 2004 "Market Value." In Rachel Youen's still life, the dinner table is a site for an ontological centerpiece. She manipulates a signature palette of tertiary colors to methodically rebuild her compositions on canvas. She exalts the everyday, calling into question notions of the valued and precious. Youens has been featured in shows at The Painting Center and 55 Mercer. She teaches at Pratt and Parsons and is a respected critic. Daphne Cummings exhibits her painterly color sense in poetic installations of Pyrex that subsequently become photo opportunities. The plain bowls become animated in their juxtapositions. Her large, color-field abstract paintings were recently seen at N3 Project Space in Williamsburg. The Crockery artists take decor to obsession, creating visual feasts. In the process, the quotidian becomes the special. |
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SUSAN HAMBURGER Artwork Bio Statement |
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Rural Scenes, a new set of dinnerware cut-outs from her faux Spode series. Pairing a centuries old English porcelain pattern with images from a recent trip out west, these "paper plates" are displayed in a foamcore cabinet. The work has been made possible, in part, through a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award and a Jentel Foundation Residency, Banner, WY. |
LEFT cabinet: (left to right)
Top: 8" plate, 5" saucer-
Crow Indian Reservation, Rt 90, WY
Middle: 5" saucer, 8"plate- Sheridan Airport, WY
5" saucer- Banner, WY
Bottom: 8" plate- Banner, WY
S&P Shakers, tall pitcher-Sheridan, WY
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RIGHT cabinet: (left to right)
Top: 8" plate, 5" plate-
Crow Indian Reservation, Rt 90, WY
Middle: 4 teacups, short pitcher-
Lower Piney Creek Rd., Banner, WY
Bottom: 13" platter- Billings, MT
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detail 13" platter- Billings, MT |
detail 8" plate- Banner, WY S&P Shakers, Tall Pitcher-Sheridan, WY |
detail 4 teacups, short pitcher- Lower Piney Creek Rd., Banner, WY |
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RACHEL YOUENS Artwork Bio Statement |
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The challenge of the still life genre to observe and record, to see and reconstruct resides in those types of situations that Meyer Shapiro says "hold action in potential" alongside "the freedom of possibility." All works oil on linen. |
CROCKERY SALON LEFT: Top: Audience 2004 Loaf & Biscotti 2004 Middle: Brick 2004 Bottom: Study 2005 Study 2005 |
CROCKERY SALON RIGHT: Top: Study 2003 Middle: Tower 2005 Construction 2003 Bottom: The Red Table 2004 |
"Study" 2003 |
"Construction with wood,
fruit and melon."
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"The Red Table"
2004
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DAPHNE CUMMINGS Artwork Bio Statement |
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The site-specific "Trop-i-cal" groups pyrex bowls against a photograph of same, setting up a push/pull of spatial elements and color. |
"Trop-i-cal" 2005 Installation Pyrex bowls and photography. |
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