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Moataz Nasr, Arabesque I (Lost Heritage),
2013. 21150 matches on wood and plexiglas. 71 x 71 x 4 in.
Leila Heller Gallery
Art Dubai, Booth A5
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exhibiting works by:Moataz Nasr, Ahmed Alsoudani
Art Dubai, March 16-19, Preview March 16th
Madinat Jumeirah, Al Sufouh Road, Umm Suqeim, Exit 39 (Interchange 4) from Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE
OPENING TIMES
Wednesday, March 16 (Invitation Only) 4:00 - 9:30pm
Ladies Preview 1:00 - 4:00pm
Thursday, March 17 4:00 - 9:30pm
Friday, March 18 2:00 - 9:30pm
Saturday, March 19 12:00 - 6:30pm
For Art Dubai 2016, Leila Heller Gallery marks its new gallery in Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue by presenting works by two leading contemporary Arab artists—Ahmed Alsoudani and Moataz Nasr. Combining photography, installation, and sculpture, the booth brings the creative genius of these two artists into visual dialogue. The booth will be anchored by two bronze sculptures by Alsoudani, marking his recent foray into the genre. Accompanying those will be wall sculptures in which Nasr reinvents the calligraphic tradition using ordinary materials like neon and matches. While deeply rooted in Arab iconography and history, Alsoudani and Nasr’s art creates a universal visual language speaking to a broader timeless, humanistic condition.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Art Dubai Opens today, Catch Lelia Heller Gallery, featuring Moataz Nasr at both A5
Monday, March 14, 2016
Julian Schnabel , Blum & Poe, Los Angeles March 18 - April 30, 2016 Opening reception: Friday, March 18, 6 – 8pm
Julian Schnabel
Infinity on Trial
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
March 18 - April 30, 2016
Opening reception: Friday, March 18, 6 – 8pm
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Los Angeles—Blum & Poe is pleased to present forty years of painting by artist Julian Schnabel. This exhibition marks Schnabel’s first solo presentation with Blum & Poe.
After a hiatus from the West Coast art scene for nearly a decade, this first exhibition at Blum & Poe takes the form of a concise overview of an exhilaratingly divergent painting practice—making a forceful case for the historical importance of Schnabel’s oeuvre, as well as his ever-growing relevance to a new generation of artists.
Twelve important paintings made between 1975 and 2015 will be displayed in the ground floor gallery. Together these paintings make manifest the scope and depth of Schnabel’s work—his groundbreaking material experimentation, his exceptional formal range, and simultaneous mastery of both figurative and abstract idioms. Not only will this exhibition serve as an introduction to this artist’s legendary work for younger viewers, but it also positions Schnabel as one of the great auteurs of the postwar period.
Transcending the question of recognizable style, Schnabel’s practice, while wildly heterogeneous, is connected together by his unmistakable personal vision—his distinctive aesthetic touch, the audacity and freedom of his varied gestures, the insistence on the physicality of his surfaces, and the unapologetic emotional inflection in all of his works. As Schnabel wrote in an attempt to locate his unique approach to making work, “feeling cannot be separated from intellect… what is expressed is a feeling of love for something that has already existed, a response to something already felt.”
Giving evidence to Schnabel’s singular authorship, the distilled selection of paintings includes: The Patients and the Doctors (1978), his first work deploying an abstracted mosaic of ceramic shards and sculptural picture planes; Jack the Bellboy (1975), an early wax painting that Schnabel considers his first mature painting; The Tunnel (Death of an Ant Near a Power Plant in the Country) (1982), an early painting made on found plywood in metric sizes that he bought in a lumber yard while working in Porto Ercole, Italy; Rebirth II (1986) a painting that incorporates an antique Kabuki theater backdrop; and The Edge of Victory (1987), a magisterial tableau made upon a tape-encrusted and stained boxing tarp from the old Gramercy Gym that Schnabel inscribed and painted with sweeping white marks. Without regard to chronology, this selection of radical, foundational pictures is hung in relationship to works from the past fifteen years. These more recent examples feature one of Schnabel’s Goat Paintings from 2015, from a series begun in 2012; a spray paint composition from 2014; an abstract “pink” painting made in 2015 from the sun-faded canopy Schnabel found in Mexico; and a regal full-length Portrait of Tatiana Lisovskaia As The Duquesa De Alba II (2014) referencing Goya.
Accompanying these compositions, the upstairs gallery features approximately forty drawings made between 1976 to the present that echo the formal and conceptual range of the paintings in the downstairs gallery.
In sum, this exhibition attempts to foreground the emotive punctum that runs throughout Schnabel’s work—otherwise stated, the wounding point or touching detail where his unconventional methods and materials are fused with emotive, tactile, and deeply narrative meaning. Despite the range in dates in which these works have been made, looking at these pieces together reveal a consistent artistic “touch” or transformational element that Schnabel is able to imbue in the found materials he assimilates into his work.
Running throughout the exhibition is a pictorial vocabulary that is consistent throughout Schnabel’s career but takes on many forms. The trope of the white stroke—curvilinear swirls of white paint that often disrupt both figurative and abstract compositions—or the haphazard traces of splashed purple pigment are seen in numerous paintings selected in the show. Likewise, dedications, proper names, and other literary references in titles are used to evoke a narrative 'imaginary' that runs through Schnabel’s oeuvre.
As Schnabel wrote about the seminal painting Jack the Bellboy, featured in the last room of the exhibition, “The difference between the physical and pictorial elements of the painting confounded an easy viewing; it was hard to look at. It activated a sensation, like color blindness, that yielded a sensory disorder that I thought was an analogue for my emotional state. It was also about the third intangible element between the viewer and itself: the blind spot. It was like a sort of dyslexia where a letter’s proximity to another makes it disappear.”(1) In many ways Schnabel’s attempt to describe the alchemical reaction simultaneously generated by the retinal, conceptual, and emotional affects of his work could be applied to all of the paintings selected for this exhibition.
Schnabel’s work has been exhibited all over the world. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper have been the subject of numerous exhibitions: the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1982); Tate Gallery, London (1982); Whitechapel Gallery, London (1987); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1987); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1987); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1987); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1987); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1987); Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, France (1989); Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich (1989); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1989); Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1989); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1989); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico (1994); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1995); Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (1996); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (2004); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2004); Rotonda della Besana, Milan (2007); Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastián (2007); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (2009); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2010); Museo Correr, Venice (2011); J.F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, Denmark (2013); Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT (2013); Dallas Contemporary (2014); Dairy Art Centre, London (2014); Museu de Arte de São Paulo, (2014); NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, FL (2014); and University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2015).
1. Julian Schnabel, CVJ: Nicknames of Maitre D's and Other Excerpts from Life (New York: Random House, 1987), 64.
Image: Julian Schnabel, The Edge of Victory, 1987
Gesso, gaffer tape, sweat and blood on boxing ring floor
, 136 x 192 inches. © Julian Schnabel Studio, Private collection. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo
Locations
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2727 S La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Blum & Poe, New York, 19 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10065
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, 1-14-34 Jingumaeshibuya, Tokyo, 150-0001
Concurrently on view
Blum & Poe, New York, Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, and Otani Workshop (through April 9)
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Kishio Suga and Robert Morris (through May 7)
Hours
Los Angeles, Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm
New York, Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 6pm
Tokyo, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
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Sunday, March 13, 2016
Art Dubai, Design Days Winners
Ranim Orouk wins the Middle East Emergent Designer Prize
by Design Days Dubai

Van Cleef & Arpels, in collaboration with Tashkeel and Design Days Dubai, today named designer Ranim Oruock as this year’s winner of the prestigious the ‘Middle East Emergent Designer Prize’ for her lighting piece ‘Glow’.
Ranim’s ‘Glow’ is now on display at the Van Cleef & Arpels booth throughout Design Days Dubai (14-18 March).
The design, which responded to the theme of Nature, was inspired by the effervescence of a school of jellyfish. With a dual function as a ceiling chandelier, or floor lamp, the piece ‘Glow’, takes the form and function from the sea creature combining the production methods of traditional glassblowing and advanced digital fabrication of 3D printing. Spheres made of 3D printed glass are fused using curved acrylic rods that mimic the form of jellyfish legs. Once lit, the transmission of light throughout the piece emphasizes the radiance emitted from a bloom of jellyfish.

Ranim Orouk
Ranim received a prize of AED 30,000 to produce the final work and will also receive a 5-day trip to Paris to attend courses at the exclusive L’ECOLE Van Cleef & Arpels, a school created to showcase the mechanisms behind the world of making jewelry and watchmaking, courtesy of Van Cleef & Arpels.
Ranim Orouk, ‘Glow’ process work
Theprize runner-Up title was awarded to Michael Rice’s Ceramic Design Inspired by DNA Helix and Sand Ripples. Michael, who specializes in ceramics, is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art at the American University of Dubai.
Runner Up design ‘Genesis’ by Michael Rice
Design Days Dubai is now open at The Venue, Burj Boulevard from now until 18 March. Click here for opening hours.
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Fridge Art Fair: The Fridge Freeze Project May 7-9 2016, Opening Grand Gala to benefit for Angel Orensanz Foundation May 7, 8-11 PM
Fridge Art Fair: The Fridge Freeze Project May 7-9 2016, Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk St, New York, NY 10002
Opening Grand Gala to benefit for Angel Orensanz Foundation May 7, 8-11 PM
Fair Hours: 4-8 PM
Saturday, May 7, 11AM-11PM
Sunday, May 8,
Monday 10 AM - 5 PM
Fridgeartfair.com
Fridge Art Fair will be held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, which is housed in the former Ansche Chesed Synagogue. The building was constructed in 1849, in architectural integrity and the tradition of the German Reform Movement of the mid 19th century. In addition to housing the Foundation and hosting some of the world’s most notable events the building remains in use as a house of worship and is the oldest surviving Synagogue in New York City.
Artist Eric Ginsburg http://www.worldoferic.com, founded fridge Art Fair as what was supposed to be a one-time event during Frieze Week in New York City in 2013. It was founded as a means to make amends for a project he felt went h9orribly wrong in part because the participants in this project were unable to have 9fun.
Eric Ginsburg turned to his mentor artist and gallerist Kazuko Miymato for assistance with this project. Kazuko Miymato not only provided assistance; she provided the gallery which she founded Gallery Onetwentyeight http://www. galleryonetwentyeight.org as the venue for the first Fridge Art Fair.
For the 4th New York edition of Fridge Art Fair titled “The Fridge Freeze Project” and the 7th edition of the fair we are pleased to announce our partnership with the Angel Orensanz Foundation.
The Fridge Freeze Project will feature artist Angel Orensanz http://www.angelorensanz.com will create a site specific installation for the fair which will be located in the main hall.
On the gallery floor Fridge Art Fair hits the ground running. With Galleries Artists and Collectives from all over the world highlighting “art for arts sake.”
Eric Ginsburg, known for his “Funky-Fresh” Dog and Cat paintings New York based curator Linda DiGusta https://www.linkedin.com/in/ linda-digusta-2210515, Miami mainstay artist, gallerist and teacher Virginia Erdie (virginiaerdie.com) and web-maestro Dylan Green (landofgaj.com) return amongst others to anchor Fridge Art Fair, as do historic Gallery OneTwentyEight and our local charity, The Angel Orensaz Foundation.
On Sunday (Mothers Day), Eric Ginsburg will be photographing your dog for a portrait commission benefitting BARC’s www.barcshelter.org animal rescue programs.
Additional fair programs, hours and satellite locations to be announced...
Exhibitor and public information at fridgeartfair.com
Galleries. Collectives, organizations and artists are invited to apply at http://www.fridgeartfair.com to exhibit in the Fair.
The participants of Fridge Art Fair are encouraged to use their “booth space” and make it their own. Fridge does not select each piece of art accepted fair participants are permitted to exhibit/sell at the fair.
Fridge views the concept when the applicant is applying and the accepted applicants use this idea to set up their space.
At Fridge we value the creative eye of all the fair participants with the belief that there is “something for everyone at Fridge.
Fridge specializes in customizing spaces to exhibitors’ needs to allow creative range of expression, curators will work with you on the space and costs once the application is approved, and there is no fee to apply.
Welcome to Fridge Art Fair NYC: The Fridge Freeze Project
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If you like to eat, cook and your art fix all in one catch: THE RESTAURANT BY CAESARSTONE & TOM DIXON Milan Design Week 2016 Tuesday April 12th
THE RESTAURANT BY CAESARSTONE & TOM DIXON
Milan Design Week 2016
Four conceptual kitchens inspired by the elements will take over the historical Rotonda della Besana delivering an experimental food concept
Image Credit to Caesarstone
March 2016: Known for presenting memorable, interactive installations in Milan, quartz manufacturer Caesarstone is collaborating with celebrated British designer Tom Dixon on a multi-sensory creation. ‘The RESTAURANT by Caesarstone & Tom Dixon' consists of four conceptual kitchens inspired by the elements – Earth, Fire, Water and Air. These kitchens will take over Milan Children's Museum (MUBA) at the historical Rotonda della Besana during the 2016 design festival in Milan.
Set within the ideal backdrop of a 17th century Cloister encircling a public garden and a deconsecrated church, each of the four sections of the cruciform-shaped complex will introduce a different range of Caesarstone's designs. Demonstrating the versatility and beauty of the Caesarstone surfaces, combined with Tom Dixon-designed dining halls and products, each kitchen will feature a variety of colours and materials that complement the mood and atmosphere of each specific element.
The EARTH kitchen, inspired by the ancient Roman aqueducts, incorporates earthy brown tones of selected Caesarstone designs including light mushroom coloured Tuscan Dawn and Concetto Albero, made from assembled segments of petrified wood. The food will be prepared by adopting an ancient European vegetable cooking method that utilizes hay to enhance the natural flavours of the products.
The FIRE kitchen is inspired by charred wood and smoke, using blackened beams and hints of gold in combination with Caesarstone's dramatic blacks and dark greys: Vanilla Noir, Raven and Coastal Grey. The food - smoked, seared and burned – will complete the conceptual experience.
The WATER kitchen reflects the jagged edges of frozen ice and has been interpreted using a spectrum of Caesarstone grey and white tonalities. Varying from steaming to freezing, the kitchen will experiment with the material by subjecting it to extreme temperatures.
Inspired by urban architecture, the AIR kitchen is created with thin, vertically-placed Caesarstone slabs and cut-outs that serve as cooking counters. Caesarstone’s Raw Concrete and Nobel Grey create an urban, light background for the completion of the culinary experience - the dessert bar.
Commissioned by Caesarstone, Italian food design studio Arabeschi di Latte, headed by Francesca Sarti, will curate the overall food concept.
"Following on from the success of the Caesarstone ICE Kitchen at IDS 2016 in January, our Milan collaboration with Tom Dixon will shed new light on the versatility and all-encompassing qualities of Caesarstone's designs. It will bring to the forefront Caesarstone's unique way of turning home kitchens into immersive, experiential platforms where food creation, dining and design harmoniously meld to create an ideal multi-sensory experience." Eli Feiglin, VP of Marketing at Caesarstone.
“In Milan this year, we wanted to collaborate with Caesarstone to inspire architects and designers through a radical interpretation of how food and surfaces can interact in different ways, delivering a food experience that challenges all the senses in an exercise of materiality, luminosity and texture. Reflecting on the four medieval elements, we have created totally distinctive smells, tastes and visual experiences within each room.” Tom Dixon.
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Tate Americas Foundation,Tuesday, May 3, 2016
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Tate Americas Foundation Hosts
Fourth Artists Dinner in New York,
Celebrating Over Forty Artists and the Opening of the New Tate Modern
May 3, 2016
IAC Building
Co-Chairs:
Estrellita Brodsky, Kira Flanzraich, Pamela Joyner, Komal Shah, Robert Sobey, Christen Wilson, and Juan Yarur Torres
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—Tate Americas Foundation, an independent charity based in New York to raise support for Tate, will host the fourth Artists Dinner fundraising gala in New York on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at the IAC Building. The Artists Dinner, which is sponsored by Oscar de la Renta, LLC and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, will honor over forty artists from the Americas who are represented in the Tate’s permanent collection. The event will celebrate the opening of the new extended and re-hung Tate Modern in June 2016, one of the most exciting developments in the art world within the last decade.
Seven co-chairs, each a major force for the arts in communities across the Americas, will lend their dynamic leadership to the evening. This year’s co-chairs include: Estrellita Brodsky (New York), Kira Flanzraich (Miami), Pamela Joyner (San Francisco), Komal Shah (San Francisco), Robert Sobey (Stellarton, Canada), Christen Wilson (Dallas), and Juan Yarur Torres (Santiago, Chile).
Richard Hamilton, Director, Tate Americas Foundation, says, “After establishing the first acquisitions committees for Tate in 2001-2, Tate Americas Foundation has played a major role in expanding the global reach of the Tate’s world-class collection. The New Tate Modern will be the most important new cultural building to open in the UK for almost twenty years, and we are enormously grateful to Oscar de la Renta and Rolls-Royce and our co-chairs for their generosity in underwriting such an important celebration.”
Artist Honorees
The evening will celebrate artists from North and South America, including Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Carol Bove, Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Cecily Brown, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alexandre da Cunha, Moyra Davey, Leonardo Drew, Mitch Epstein, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Sam Gilliam, Nan Goldin, Beatriz González, Paul Graham, Rodney Graham, Guerrilla Girls (Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz), Tamar Guimarães, Neil Jenney, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jac Leirner, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Helen and Brice Marden, Teresa Margolles, Kerry James Marshall, Josiah McElheny, Julie Mehretu, Bruce Nauman and Susan Rothenberg, Gabriel Orozco, Laura Owens, Miguel Angel Rojas, Mark Ruwedel, Joan Semmel, Stephen Shore, Amie Siegel, Lorna Simpson, Melanie Smith, Michael Snow, Valeska Soares, Frances Stark, Jeff Wall, Carrie Mae Weems, Lawrence Weiner, James Welling, Judi Werthein, Jack Whitten, and David Zink Yi.
The evening will begin with cocktails, followed by a seated dinner and a live auction of items generously donated by Tate supporters and hosted by auctioneer Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman, Europe; Senior Art Specialist, Sotheby’s.
For ticketing information, please call Kara Stitcher at MF Productions on 212-243-7300.
About Tate Americas Foundation
Tate Americas Foundation is an independent charity based in New York that raises support for Tate from individuals, foundations, and corporations in the Americas. The charity was founded in 1987, when Sir Edwin and Lady Manton created the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, a restricted endowment to acquire works of art from North and South America for presentation to Tate. The organization, previously known as American Patrons of Tate, was renamed the Tate Americas Foundation in early 2013 to reflect the organization’s evolving role and expanding geographical base of support. Since 1999, the charity has raised over $210 million in cash donations and acquired $76 million in art (through purchase or gift). For more information, please visit www.tateamericas.org.
Image: Tate Americas Foundation 2013 Artists Dinner, Courtesy of Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc.com
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Esther Anderson and Larry Gartel At the Miami Film Festival
Esther Anderson and Larry Gartel At the Miami Film Festival
~What a great time last night at the opening of "A Warm December" starring Sidney Poitier and Esther Anderson. Esther was given a proclamation by the City of North Miami Beach, and honored by Elliot Jones (grandson of Maya Angelou.) The film itself created in 1972 was a defiant victory showcasing a successful black doctor being revered in a white man's world while meeting a Princess who had sickle cell anemia and bringing that disease to the consciousness of the public. - A tremendously heroic depiction by Sidney Poitier and a sensational confident, young woman in Esther Anderson. What an amazing human being she IS. Thank you for suggesting I go see the film and Esther. A highlight I have included in the GARTEL Life Book. ... Lawrence Gartel, Feb, 27, 2016
~What a great time last night at the opening of "A Warm December" starring Sidney Poitier and Esther Anderson. Esther was given a proclamation by the City of North Miami Beach, and honored by Elliot Jones (grandson of Maya Angelou.) The film itself created in 1972 was a defiant victory showcasing a successful black doctor being revered in a white man's world while meeting a Princess who had sickle cell anemia and bringing that disease to the consciousness of the public. - A tremendously heroic depiction by Sidney Poitier and a sensational confident, young woman in Esther Anderson. What an amazing human being she IS. Thank you for suggesting I go see the film and Esther. A highlight I have included in the GARTEL Life Book. ... Lawrence Gartel, Feb, 27, 2016 Thursday, February 25, 2016
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KAZUNORI HAMANA, YUJI UEDA, and OTANI WORKSHOP Curated by Takashi Murakami Blum & Poe, New York March 3 – April 9, 2016
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KAZUNORI HAMANA, YUJI UEDA, and OTANI WORKSHOP
Curated by Takashi Murakami
Blum & Poe, New York
March 3 – April 9, 2016
Opening reception: Thursday, March 3, 6 – 8pm
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New York, NY (February 25, 2016)—Blum & Poe is pleased to present an exhibition of Japanese ceramics featuring the work of Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, and Otani Workshop — organized and curated by Takashi Murakami.
For this exhibition, Takashi Murakami assembles a new generation of Japanese ceramicists whose unique pottery methods merge a respect for lineage with improvisation, experimentation, and refinement. As with the artists’ previous exhibition at Blum & Poe Los Angeles (September 2015) — Hamana, Ueda, and Otani bring their unique wares and collective imagination to the New York gallery space to create a lucid and otherworldly environment. Central to both the artists' practices and lifestyles, an emphasis on the integrity of natural objects and processes drives this presentation of anthropomorphic clay forms; asymmetrical vessels; and singed, crackling, glazed surfaces. Locally harvested clays are shaped sometimes over the span of many days; mixed with experimental materials to produce unique effects; glazes formed with combinations of metals, ash, and wood; pieces baked in subterranean or above-ground wood-fired kilns.
This display of ceramics is an illumination of age-old traditions being expanded into the 21st century. Informed by and in conceptual counter to elements of contemporary pop culture, mass production and mass consumption, Kazunori Hamana, for example, creates large ceramic vessels without immediately perceivable use, working without tools and without haste. Many of the works in the exhibition by these three young artists have never been seen before in the United States.
Kazunori Hamana makes ceramics on the pacific coast, in Chiba, Japan. The work is both stark and full of personality, and oftentimes the surfaces are striped or imbued with designs or language. Urns, bowls, vessels, cups, and plates — each irregularly shaped by not only the vast history of the ceramic arts, but also by the characteristics — are found in the coastal environment where he works.
Yuji Ueda comes from a family of award-winning tea farmers in the Shiga Prefecture town of Shigaraki. His experimental approach to glazing and firing leads to a variety of distinct forms and vessels. Working both in intimate sizes and in larger scales, Ueda’s alien surfaces and fragile textures are both tolerant and unyielding.
Otani Workshop is also based in Shigaraki — one of the great centers of Japanese ceramics for the last 800 years. In addition to clay, Otani works with wood, iron, and other materials. His small jars, vases, and other sculptural forms depicting figures and faces are characteristic of the many styles and motifs found throughout Japanese culture.
Image: Kazunori Hamana, Untitled, c. 2015, Ceramic, 7 1/2 x 8 7/8 x 9 inches, © the artist. Photo: Toru Kometani. Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo
Locations
Blum & Poe, New York, 19 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10065
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, 1-14-34 Jingumaeshibuya, Tokyo, 150-0001
Concurrently on view
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, through March 12, Dansaekhwa and Minimalism
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, through March 5, Matt Saunders: Two Worlds
Hours
Los Angeles, Tuesday – Saturday, 10am–6pm
New York, Monday – Friday, 10am–6pm
Tokyo, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am–7pm
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Gallerie St. Etienne, ADD Art Show 2016: Armory 67th St NYC
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