JANUARY John Paul Morabito: Take Me To Heaven Patricia Sweetow Gallery Los Angeles, California January 11-February 22, 2025 The title of this show, Morabito’s first solo exhibition, pays homage to the music and persona of Sylvester, the pioneering 1970s Black gender-fluid disco star. Morabito’s shimmering, multicolored tapestries further the quest for queer freedom and […]
The week is “a way to create energy and celebrate the rich Black art landscape in the Bay Area,” she added, explaining that the initiative extends beyond San Francisco to recognize “Oakland’s longstanding influence as a center of Black arts and culture.”
Since mid-March 2020, Ive been making and glazing my ceramic works at home, a dusty, messy thing to do. This necessitates transporting work back and forth to the kiln in fragile greenware or raw glazed state. I now do this by subway (I was previously able to score a ride every month or so). Im now adept at the finer points of moving fragile clay work around in shopping bags.
Developing the surface and coloration begins while a piece is still wet
By twisting, folding and pinching the hollow tubes, D’Arrigo knowingly occupies a territory first opened up by George E. Ohr, “The Mad Potter of Biloxi,” who has also been an inspiration for Ken Price and Kathy Butterly.
On behalf of Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Burlington City Arts, The Current, and Hall Art Foundation, we are delighted to congratulate Sarah Amos of Enosburg Falls on being selected as the winner of the 2024 Vermont Prize! The Vermont Prize celebrates and supports the best visual art being made in Vermont today. The […]
These small, intense things create a menagerie of the little and imaginary, of objects that evoke wonder and its twin, curiosity.
Delightfully bodied and splendidly decked out in glazes of many colors, the 20 new ceramic works in Elisa D’Arrigo’s current exhibition (on view through October 21, 2023) make their presence emphatically felt despite the modesty of their measurements.
