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Showing posts with label Ferrin Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferrin Gallery. Show all posts
Friday, May 28, 2010
FERRIN GALLERY - FOURSOME - One Reception - Four Shows
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
[Ferrin Gallery] Dish & Dine: Jason Houston + MaryAnne Davis
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
[Ferrin Gallery] FOCUS: Studio Pottery
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Industry of Making Pots
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| This article appeared in Ceramics Monthly magazine’s February 2010 issue. Click HERE for a link to the article on ceramicartsdaily.org January 20, 2010 The Industry of Making Potsby Donald Clark
Beginning with the Arts and Crafts movement at the beginning of 19th century, the applied arts have grown in importance and recognition. The Bauhaus philosophy, and the work of many of the designer crafts people who worked and studied there, have driven the applied arts since the middle of the 19th century.
Espresso cups from the winter 2009 collection, Heath Ceramics.  Vases and bowls from the summer 2009 collection, Heath Ceramics.
Potters today who have freed themselves from the constraint that everything must be made by their hands are exploring numerous other avenues to produce their work and get it to market. The models run from a potter working alone using industrial equipment in the studio to the clay designer who, once the piece is designed, never touches it again.
 Skippy Medium Ball Lamp, base is 11 in. (28 cm) in diameter, by Jill Rosenwald Studio.
 Vice Canisters, to 8¾ in. (22 cm) in height, by Jonathan Adler.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Studio Pottery Invitational 2009 and Collecting Studio Pottery 24/7
Introducing the "Shopping Cart" - starting with the 2009 Studio Pottery Invitational, Ferrin Gallery has added a shopping cart function to assist our 24/7 web collectors. Responding to our national client base who enjoy purchasing during non - gallery hours, we have instituted the option to buy directly from the website. Our first sale - a potter from Texas. We always knew our artists could be some of our best collectors if they could only easily use the website on their schedule. We have to ask ourselves, what took us so long.
Ferrin Gallery has specialized in and shown contemporary American ceramics and studio pottery for over thirty years. During that time, the gallery, originally founded by three potters, has shown work by over a thousand potters through solo, group shows and annual surveys. This genre in contemporary ceramics continues to be avidly sought by people who use, collect and give handmade ceramics. Through this exhibit, our local community of collectors and artists can discover and examine the works in person and the rapidly growing global collecting community, while unable to touch, are able to view the show online. We are happy to discuss the work in person, live on the phone or "chat" via email about what is represented digitally.
STUDIO POTTERY INVITATIONAL 2009
Ferrin Gallery
437 North Street
Pittsfield
FerrinGallery.com
This exhibition introduces a group of studio potters who have not shown their artwork at the gallery previously. Each year ten artists are invited to present a series of functional objects that are related by form and surface. The artists chosen for this year's show include locals Mary Anne Davis whose studio is located in nearby Spencertown, NY and Molly Hatch from Northampton, MA. Other artists include those who are young and considered "emerging" Gwendolyn Yoppolo, Sanam Emani and Kristen Kiefer , Then there those we re-met while traveling - Nicholas Bernard, Phoenix, AZ who previously worked with the gallery but not for many years. Two came to us in person when we met through their visits to the gallery while in the area as guest artists - Steve Godfrey, Alaska and Christa Assad, California. Another sources for us are recommendations by faculty or other artists who mentor them such as Sanam Emami who came to us through Linda Sikora her teacher at Alfred University.
CHRIS GUSTIN, joined us this year as the featured artist for Locally Thrown / Locally Grown a weekend of events based in ceramics. His classic tea bowls and large vessels offer both sculptural vessels and utilitarian in richly glazed woodfired stoneware.
CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT LINK TO SHOW OVERVIEW:
http://www.ferringallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_overview.asp?ExhibitID=290
ONVIEW through November 14, 2009
CHRISTA ASSAD
Based in California, mid-career artist Christa Assad is most well known for her interpretation of iron as a teapot. Visiting this summer during the teapot show Teapots Interpretations, Assad explained her the inspiration for her piece:
"The antique sad iron conjures up memories of childhood, of times spent with grandmothers and long forgotten domestic disciplines. the morphing of iron and teapot as domestic object icon helps to elicit a more powerful emotional response."
A teacher, traveler and full time ceramicist with an MFA from Indiana University, the works she sent us for the invitational includes a group of cups designed after her visit to the Berkshires and a lively discussion with local potter, Mark Shapiro. Her work will be featured next year in a solo show at Ferrin Gallery based on interpretation of vestigial objects to inspire new forms maybe even one of those well known transformer originally manufactured by GE in Pittsfield.
NICHOLAS BERNARD
While visiting Arizona this year for the opening of Sergei Isupov's solo show, we bumped into a friend from another time, Nicholas Bernard. Working in ceramics since high school, his current work combines brightly colored and textured earthenware surfaces on vessels that are inspired by the Southwest landscape. Bernard studied the pottery traditions of native cultures and worked with contemporary Native American potters exploring traditional methods of forming and firing.
For this show, Bernard carefully chose a selection of his favorite vessels from several firings this summer.
MARY ANNE DAVIS
Mary Anne Davis is an accomplished production potter who has been designing and producing dinnerware for 20 years. Known for simple designs and clear colors, she created davistudio in nearby Spencertown to produce and sell porcelain objects through a variety of venues including museum and department stores, and galleries throughout the country. An artist with an ear for dialogue she writes on ceramics and community for various publications and maintains a lively conversation through her blog.
Her installation "Naked Porcelain" features a banquet table set for twelve with her simple white porcelain dishes.
SANAM EMAMI
Sanam Emami, born in Iran, incorporates elements of Pre-Islamic and Islamic art into her work.
"The influences are at times visually apparent on my forms and the patterns that are embedded in the wet clay, and at other times, they are only present in the method of juxtaposing selected patterns and images on the surface with silk-screened imagery."
Emami received her MFA from Alfred University and lives and works in Pennsylvania.
Photo caption: Sanam Emami, Patterned Vase, 13 x 6"
Click Here to see Sanam Emami @ FerrinGallery.com
STEVEN GODFREY
Potter and Professor of Art at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Steve Godfrey creates pots, mugs and other classic utilitarian forms with celadon glazes and surface textures. His recent use of bird figures is based on old ivory carvings done by Siberian Yupiks (Eskimos), natives of King and St. Lawrence Islands in Alaska.
"I hope for my pots to speak to people beyond their functionality and to tell a provoking story through the symbolism of form and color. I wish for them to be used and understood as objects that are testaments to observations of beauty."
MOLLY HATCH
A new resident of nearby Florence, MA, Molly Hatch’s ceramic work appropriates imagery from the French baroque rococo and European chinoiserie traditions. As a result of coming to ceramics via drawing and printmaking, Hatch engages representational drawing on the surfaces of the work. She uses the traditional Japanese mishima slip inlay technique to create her detailed calligraphic line on the surface of the work. Exhibiting her work widely throughout the US, she is also a writer and is actively working with various publications specializing in studio ceramics including American Craft Magazine and The Studio Potter Journal.
A solo show of her work will be presented at the Bennington Art Museum in November.
KRISTEN KIEFER
Originally from Louisville, KY Kristen Kieffer now lives and works in Baldwinville MA. Using patterns derived from fabric, jewelry, architecture and furniture of various cultures. Drawing inspiration from various sources her current work is focused on using those drawn from works in metal, specifically, Art Nouveau silver, Islamic brass and American silver. She enjoys the contrast between soft patterns and shapes and the hard nature of the material. A graduate of Alfred University and Ohio State, she works closely with The Studio Potter Journal and teaches workshops and classes at Worcester Center for Crafts, Rhode Island School of Design and most recently Harvard University.
SETH RAINVILLE
Based in New Bedford MA Seth Rainville's work blends painting, drawing and writing on porcelain tea bowls, teapots and plates. Receiving his degree from UMass Dartmouth, he lived in the Southwest returning to Massachusetts working nearby his former professor Chris Gustin, the featured artist in this year's invitational. His sculptural storytelling teapots will be included in the gallery's upcoming group show presented at SOFA Chicago, THE ILLUSCULPTORS.
GWENDOLYN YOPPOLO
A current resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Gwendolyn Yoppolo received her MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University. Her porcelain vessels, dishes and cooking tools are inspired by biology, the human form and photographs she takes using an electron microscope.
"With sensitivity to the wisdom of my body, I translate inner forms into an emptiness that will contain, or offer, or filter, or extend."
Ferrin Gallery has specialized in and shown contemporary American ceramics and studio pottery for over thirty years. During that time, the gallery, originally founded by three potters, has shown work by over a thousand potters through solo, group shows and annual surveys. This genre in contemporary ceramics continues to be avidly sought by people who use, collect and give handmade ceramics. Through this exhibit, our local community of collectors and artists can discover and examine the works in person and the rapidly growing global collecting community, while unable to touch, are able to view the show online. We are happy to discuss the work in person, live on the phone or "chat" via email about what is represented digitally.
STUDIO POTTERY INVITATIONAL 2009
Ferrin Gallery
437 North Street
Pittsfield
FerrinGallery.com
This exhibition introduces a group of studio potters who have not shown their artwork at the gallery previously. Each year ten artists are invited to present a series of functional objects that are related by form and surface. The artists chosen for this year's show include locals Mary Anne Davis whose studio is located in nearby Spencertown, NY and Molly Hatch from Northampton, MA. Other artists include those who are young and considered "emerging" Gwendolyn Yoppolo, Sanam Emani and Kristen Kiefer , Then there those we re-met while traveling - Nicholas Bernard, Phoenix, AZ who previously worked with the gallery but not for many years. Two came to us in person when we met through their visits to the gallery while in the area as guest artists - Steve Godfrey, Alaska and Christa Assad, California. Another sources for us are recommendations by faculty or other artists who mentor them such as Sanam Emami who came to us through Linda Sikora her teacher at Alfred University.
CHRIS GUSTIN, joined us this year as the featured artist for Locally Thrown / Locally Grown a weekend of events based in ceramics. His classic tea bowls and large vessels offer both sculptural vessels and utilitarian in richly glazed woodfired stoneware.
CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT LINK TO SHOW OVERVIEW:
http://www.ferringallery.c
ONVIEW through November 14, 2009
CHRISTA ASSAD
Based in California, mid-career artist Christa Assad is most well known for her interpretation of iron as a teapot. Visiting this summer during the teapot show Teapots Interpretations, Assad explained her the inspiration for her piece:
"The antique sad iron conjures up memories of childhood, of times spent with grandmothers and long forgotten domestic disciplines. the morphing of iron and teapot as domestic object icon helps to elicit a more powerful emotional response."
A teacher, traveler and full time ceramicist with an MFA from Indiana University, the works she sent us for the invitational includes a group of cups designed after her visit to the Berkshires and a lively discussion with local potter, Mark Shapiro. Her work will be featured next year in a solo show at Ferrin Gallery based on interpretation of vestigial objects to inspire new forms maybe even one of those well known transformer originally manufactured by GE in Pittsfield.
NICHOLAS BERNARD
While visiting Arizona this year for the opening of Sergei Isupov's solo show, we bumped into a friend from another time, Nicholas Bernard. Working in ceramics since high school, his current work combines brightly colored and textured earthenware surfaces on vessels that are inspired by the Southwest landscape. Bernard studied the pottery traditions of native cultures and worked with contemporary Native American potters exploring traditional methods of forming and firing.
For this show, Bernard carefully chose a selection of his favorite vessels from several firings this summer.
MARY ANNE DAVIS
Mary Anne Davis is an accomplished production potter who has been designing and producing dinnerware for 20 years. Known for simple designs and clear colors, she created davistudio in nearby Spencertown to produce and sell porcelain objects through a variety of venues including museum and department stores, and galleries throughout the country. An artist with an ear for dialogue she writes on ceramics and community for various publications and maintains a lively conversation through her blog.
Her installation "Naked Porcelain" features a banquet table set for twelve with her simple white porcelain dishes.
SANAM EMAMI
Sanam Emami, born in Iran, incorporates elements of Pre-Islamic and Islamic art into her work.
"The influences are at times visually apparent on my forms and the patterns that are embedded in the wet clay, and at other times, they are only present in the method of juxtaposing selected patterns and images on the surface with silk-screened imagery."
Emami received her MFA from Alfred University and lives and works in Pennsylvania.
Photo caption: Sanam Emami, Patterned Vase, 13 x 6"
Click Here to see Sanam Emami @ FerrinGallery.com
STEVEN GODFREY
Potter and Professor of Art at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Steve Godfrey creates pots, mugs and other classic utilitarian forms with celadon glazes and surface textures. His recent use of bird figures is based on old ivory carvings done by Siberian Yupiks (Eskimos), natives of King and St. Lawrence Islands in Alaska.
"I hope for my pots to speak to people beyond their functionality and to tell a provoking story through the symbolism of form and color. I wish for them to be used and understood as objects that are testaments to observations of beauty."
MOLLY HATCH
A new resident of nearby Florence, MA, Molly Hatch’s ceramic work appropriates imagery from the French baroque rococo and European chinoiserie traditions. As a result of coming to ceramics via drawing and printmaking, Hatch engages representational drawing on the surfaces of the work. She uses the traditional Japanese mishima slip inlay technique to create her detailed calligraphic line on the surface of the work. Exhibiting her work widely throughout the US, she is also a writer and is actively working with various publications specializing in studio ceramics including American Craft Magazine and The Studio Potter Journal.
A solo show of her work will be presented at the Bennington Art Museum in November.
KRISTEN KIEFER
Originally from Louisville, KY Kristen Kieffer now lives and works in Baldwinville MA. Using patterns derived from fabric, jewelry, architecture and furniture of various cultures. Drawing inspiration from various sources her current work is focused on using those drawn from works in metal, specifically, Art Nouveau silver, Islamic brass and American silver. She enjoys the contrast between soft patterns and shapes and the hard nature of the material. A graduate of Alfred University and Ohio State, she works closely with The Studio Potter Journal and teaches workshops and classes at Worcester Center for Crafts, Rhode Island School of Design and most recently Harvard University.
SETH RAINVILLE
Based in New Bedford MA Seth Rainville's work blends painting, drawing and writing on porcelain tea bowls, teapots and plates. Receiving his degree from UMass Dartmouth, he lived in the Southwest returning to Massachusetts working nearby his former professor Chris Gustin, the featured artist in this year's invitational. His sculptural storytelling teapots will be included in the gallery's upcoming group show presented at SOFA Chicago, THE ILLUSCULPTORS.
GWENDOLYN YOPPOLO
A current resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, Gwendolyn Yoppolo received her MFA in Ceramics from Penn State University. Her porcelain vessels, dishes and cooking tools are inspired by biology, the human form and photographs she takes using an electron microscope.
"With sensitivity to the wisdom of my body, I translate inner forms into an emptiness that will contain, or offer, or filter, or extend."
Christa Assad
Tequila Sipper Set
7 x 10 x 9 in.
$425 INV #: CAssa-28704
Tequila Sipper Set
7 x 10 x 9 in.
$425 INV #: CAssa-28704
Nicholas Bernard
Medium Two Tone Vessel with Facets
9 x 8 in.
$225 INV #: NBern-28619
Medium Two Tone Vessel with Facets
9 x 8 in.
$225 INV #: NBern-28619
Mary Anne Davis
Assorted Dinnerware
Individual items range in price.
$244.00 for 5 piece place setting which includes dinnerplate, pasta and cake plates, miso bowl and coffee cup.
Assorted Dinnerware
Individual items range in price.
$244.00 for 5 piece place setting which includes dinnerplate, pasta and cake plates, miso bowl and coffee cup.
Sanam Emami
Green and Gold Teapot
6 (Height) in.
$280 INV #: SEmam-28733
Green and Gold Teapot
6 (Height) in.
$280 INV #: SEmam-28733
Steve Godfrey
Emperor Goose Family Salt Celler
6 x 9 x 9 in.
$250 INV #: SGodf-28788
Emperor Goose Family Salt Celler $250
Emperor Goose Family Salt Celler
6 x 9 x 9 in.
$250 INV #: SGodf-28788
Emperor Goose Family Salt Celler $250
Chris Gustin
Tea Bowl
4 x 4 in.
$250 INV #: CGust-28768
Tea Bowl $250
Tea Bowl
4 x 4 in.
$250 INV #: CGust-28768
Tea Bowl $250
Molly Hatch
Bird of Paradise Platter
1.5 x 8 x 12 in.
$180 INV #: MHatc-28744
Bird of Paradise Platter $180
Bird of Paradise Platter
1.5 x 8 x 12 in.
$180 INV #: MHatc-28744
Bird of Paradise Platter $180
Kristen Kieffer
Wire Handled Basket, Rosa
7.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 in.
$140 INV #: KKief-28719
Wire Handled Basket, Rosa $140
Wire Handled Basket, Rosa
7.5 x 4.5 x 3.5 in.
$140 INV #: KKief-28719
Wire Handled Basket, Rosa $140
Seth Rainville
Ink-ware teabowl
3 x 3.5 in.
$150 INV #: SRain-28809
Ink-ware teabowl $150
Ink-ware teabowl
3 x 3.5 in.
$150 INV #: SRain-28809
Ink-ware teabowl $150
Gwendolyn Yoppolo
Tea for Two Set (5 Pieces)
5 x 14.5 x 5 in.
$195 INV #: GYopp-28792
Tea for Two Set (5 Pieces) $195
Tea for Two Set (5 Pieces)
5 x 14.5 x 5 in.
$195 INV #: GYopp-28792
Tea for Two Set (5 Pieces) $195
Monday, October 12, 2009
Artists from THERE are HERE October 8 - 10th
Long weekends in the fall mean artists from outside the area are speaking, exhibiting and demonstrating throughout the Berkshires (bonus: incredible leaves to see while you drive between the events)
THURSDAY:
October 8 6:00 pm
HERE - “Ten Years of Re-Imaging North Adams" - Artist Salon - moderated discussion with curators Leslie Ferrin, Ven Voisey, Jonathan Secor discussing the impact of ten years by MASS MoCA as revealed through photography, painting and mixed media (MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams) with artists from both here and there.
Artists include: Kay Canavino, Gordon Chandler, Laura Christensen, Joan Diamant, Wendy James, Jaye Fox, Joe Fusaro, Wendy Goldberg, Amanda Hartlage, J.C. Jorgerst, Phelan Levall, Melanie Mowinski, John Mitchell, David Ricci, Greg Scheckler, Nicholas Whitman, and Michael Zelehoski.
FRIDAY - SUNDAY
Locally Thrown/Locally Grown
Join us, IS183 Art School and potter - sculptor Chris Gustin, featured guest artist for the weekend that includes a benefit dinner, demonstration, artist talks, gallery preview and reception. Proceeds from the events help support the ceramics program that provides work space, classes, demonstrations and workshops at IS183 Art School in Stockbridge.
413.298.5252 x 100 to purchase dinner tickets and register for demo
FRIDAY
DINNER 7:00 at IS183 Art School (Stockbridge) Chef Daniel Mahoney - cocktail party with special guest Chris Gustin, then sit down dinner with locally grown produce (onion tart, butternut squash soup, coq au vin and gnocci, apple tart dessert).
SATURDAY, October 10,
DEMO
Chris Gustin potter/sculptor
IS183 Art School (Stockbridge)
10 to 12:00, Fee: $25
ARTIST TALK
3:30 p.m. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield FREE
Lucy Feller - Digital Collage Photography
RECEPTIONS
4- 6:00 p.m. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, FREE
Lucy Feller, Solo Show - Wish You Were Near
Chris Gustin - Featured Artist
2009 Studio Pottery Invitational
Preview of Group Show Functional Ceramics by American Studio Potters
SUNDAY
October 11, Studio Tour and Brunch
Project Art, Cummington $20 for Brunch with Visiting Artists
Tour studios of International Sculptor, Sergei Isupov and Studio Potter, Michael McCarthy
Long weekends in the fall mean artists from outside the area are speaking, exhibiting and demonstrating throughout the Berkshires (bonus: incredible leaves to see while you drive between the events)
THURSDAY:
October 8 6:00 pm
HERE - “Ten Years of Re-Imaging North Adams" - Artist Salon - moderated discussion with curators Leslie Ferrin, Ven Voisey, Jonathan Secor discussing the impact of ten years by MASS MoCA as revealed through photography, painting and mixed media (MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams) with artists from both here and there.
Artists include: Kay Canavino, Gordon Chandler, Laura Christensen, Joan Diamant, Wendy James, Jaye Fox, Joe Fusaro, Wendy Goldberg, Amanda Hartlage, J.C. Jorgerst, Phelan Levall, Melanie Mowinski, John Mitchell, David Ricci, Greg Scheckler, Nicholas Whitman, and Michael Zelehoski.
FRIDAY - SUNDAY
Locally Thrown/Locally Grown
Join us, IS183 Art School and potter - sculptor Chris Gustin, featured guest artist for the weekend that includes a benefit dinner, demonstration, artist talks, gallery preview and reception. Proceeds from the events help support the ceramics program that provides work space, classes, demonstrations and workshops at IS183 Art School in Stockbridge.
413.298.5252 x 100 to purchase dinner tickets and register for demo
FRIDAY
DINNER 7:00 at IS183 Art School (Stockbridge) Chef Daniel Mahoney - cocktail party with special guest Chris Gustin, then sit down dinner with locally grown produce (onion tart, butternut squash soup, coq au vin and gnocci, apple tart dessert).
SATURDAY, October 10,
DEMO
Chris Gustin potter/sculptor
IS183 Art School (Stockbridge)
10 to 12:00, Fee: $25
ARTIST TALK
3:30 p.m. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield FREE
Lucy Feller - Digital Collage Photography
RECEPTIONS
4- 6:00 p.m. Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, FREE
Lucy Feller, Solo Show - Wish You Were Near
Chris Gustin - Featured Artist
2009 Studio Pottery Invitational
Preview of Group Show Functional Ceramics by American Studio Potters
SUNDAY
October 11, Studio Tour and Brunch
Project Art, Cummington $20 for Brunch with Visiting Artists
Tour studios of International Sculptor, Sergei Isupov and Studio Potter, Michael McCarthy
Chris Gustin - Featured artist at Locally Thrown /Locally Grown Dinner and Demo at IS183 Art School (Stockbridge) Studio Pottery Invitational 2009, Ferrin Gallery (Pittsfield)
Michael Zelehoski - HERE - MCLA Gallery 51, (North Adams)
Mary Anne Davis - featured in Studio Pottery Invitational 2009 - Ferrin Gallery (Pittsfield)
Locally Thrown/Locally Grown
Series of events on Columbus Day Weekend focused on Ceramics- organized by Ferrin Gallery and IS183 Art School
Series of events on Columbus Day Weekend focused on Ceramics- organized by Ferrin Gallery and IS183 Art School
Thursday, October 8, 2009
[Ferrin Galley] Weekend of Visiting Artists and Events
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