Exhibition Catalogue Essays
Still Dances: Recent Ceramic Sculptures by Susan Low-Beer
This exhibition of Susan Low-Beer comprises nine sculptures, representing her most recent work. It distinguishes an eclectic vision, an idiosyncratic synthesis formed by more than 20 years of exploration with painted imagery and clay. Together these works extol the act of image-making.
Weaving Out Loud: Sandra Brownlee
For millennia, handwoven textiles have provided a place for recording information, memory, and symbolic perception, and the means to communicate social, magical, and/or religious ideas and values.*' Especially important to the language and meaning of textiles has been the association between the act of weaving and the generative aspect of life.
Silent Ice: Deep Patience
She is a fragment collector. Traveling in the open country of the Australian Outback and the tundra regions of the Canadian Arctic, Dorothy Caldwell responds to the subtle amplification of the visual and physical silence found in these landscapes.
Walter Ostrom: The Advocacy of Pottery
When I think of Walter Ostrom what comes to mind is a person of huge energy, vitality, and above all enthusiasm for his work whether this be ceramics, teaching or gardening. I believe that he is largely responsible for the shift in emphasis from the high-fire oriental aesthetics to the low fire earthenware traditions of Europe. His influence has enlarged the vision of history by pointing to the importance of other sources of inspiration.
Objects of Sight: Steven Heinemann
The works presented in the exhibition, Objects of Sight, reveal much about our capacity to see. These works show us that there is a way of looking that is slow and thoughtful, rare in the world of the media image. As we follow Heinemann's inquiry over the years we see that it is possible, through the process of making art, to connect with embodied life