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Ceramics Now, Malene Barnett, Sindy Butz, Donna Green, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, Kari Marboe
July 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - September 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm
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The gallery will be open with limited capacity by appointment only. Email kmcclure@greenwichhouse.org to make an appointment.
The Jane Hartsook Gallery is pleased to present work by our 2018-2019 fellows and artists in residence: Malene Barnett, Sindy Butz, Donna Green, Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, and Kari Marboe. The Greenwich House Pottery Residency and Fellowship is a distinguished program that fosters artistic growth by providing artists with a creative community, time, space and materials to explore and generate new bodies of ceramic work in the center of the art world.
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"Ceramics Now" installation


Sindy Butz, "Requiem for a Speleothem," stoneware (paper clay), glaze, 20198.25” x 8.25” x 13”

Sindy Butz, "Water Lily," stoneware, glaze, 2019, 4.5” x 11” x 11”

Malene Barnett, "Carved Forest," stoneware, glaze, 2020, 12” x 18”

Malene Barnett, "I See You," stoneware, underglaze, glaze, wax resist, 2020, 8” x 15”

Malene Barnett, "Adire II," stoneware, glaze, underglaze, wax resist, 2020, 7” x 17”

Donna Green, "Desire," stoneware, glaze, 2019, 25” x 20”

Donna Green, "Oblivion," stoneware, glaze, 2019, 30” x 24”

Donna Green, "Oblivion" (detail), stoneware, glaze, 2019, 30” x 24”

Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, "Sign of the Times," ceramic, 62” x 22” x 5", 2019

Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, "The Night Everything Changed," ceramic, 12.5" x 17”, 2019

Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, "This is a Raided Premises," ceramic, 22 x 22", 2019

Kari Marboe, "Doppelgangers," porcelain paper clay, glaze 9” x 4” x 5”; 5.75” x 6” x 4”; 7.5” x 5” x 6”, 2019 One artwork by Daniel Rhodes in the Greenwich House Pottery Collection is from 1960 and has the title “Fish face. Jack Dempsey, whale pot. It’s a whale of a pot! Piranha pot!”. This is an unusual title for Rhodes’ practice, as is the squished basketball shape of the piece with the most distinct feature being the mouthlike slit on one side. There are two condition reports that accompany the vessel’s photographs. One recalls the state of the piece as being “excellent” while the other is noted as “good.” I let the sentiment of the words, as well as new combinations, guide the forms of my next round of sculptures. Out came a series of fin-covered, looping sculptures. I used the porcelain paper clay as a nod to the development and use of additives Daniel Rhodes is known for using in his work and also speaks about in Clay and Glazes for the Potter. The porcelain paper clay recipe and technique was shared with me by Lisa Chicoyne, artist and instructor at Greenwich House Pottery, while we had lunch a few blocks from the studio last summer.

Kari Marboe, "Doppelgangers" (Detail), porcelain paper clay, glaze, 9” x 4” x 5”, 2019

Kari Marboe, "Impression," stoneware, glaze, 7.5” x 9”, 2019 In March 2019 I traveled to Alfred University in upstate New York where Daniel Rhodes received his MFA and taught from 1947-1973. After an introduction from Michael Swaine, who did his BFA at Alfred, I met and stayed with Andrea and John Gill, two artists and Alfred professors. Andrea and John’s kindness and intelligence resides within every object and every surface of their house. "Impression" is based on conversations I had with John Gill in his green room adjacent to the kitchen and in the car when he took me on a tour of the area. We spoke about form, Rhodes, Alfred, diners, history, laundry, and stretching yourself to get to your ceramics. He told me not to be timid about getting there. "I believe that it is important for artists not to make a premature commitment to a narrowed objective before they are ready. Granted, such a commitment may make the work more easily recognized, but a narrowing of focus should come from inner necessity rather than from calculation. Worst of all is the temptation to tailor one’s work to some au courant image which later may prove to be uncongenial. I regret now that I didn’t dig deeper into some of the various promising mines that I opened up. But in art one must follow one’s hunches." -Daniel Rhodes, Ceramics Monthly, September 1987
Artist Bios
Malene Barnett is a cross-media contemporary artist and activist, as well as the founder of her self-named art and design atelier and of the Black Artists + Designers Guild. She is known for her sculptural ceramic tiles and vessels, mixed media paintings, and handwoven rugs. In all of her work, Barnett continues to evolve her craft and share her African heritage with a global audience. Barnett used her residency to continue to develop the forms and carved surfaces of her ceramic sculptures.
Sindy Butz is a German-born interdisciplinary performance artist, Butoh dancer, and movement educator living in New York. She creates endurance performances, multisensory installations, and olfactoric projects. In her research-based work, she explores belief systems, transformation processes, the notion of time, anthropogeography, and the collective unconscious. Butz used her residency to develop a scent-based ceramic installation to investigate the fragility and vulnerability of caves and stalagmites through human-environment interactions, specifically through touch.
Donna Green is a sculptor, potter and photographer based in New York City. Green’s forms are reminiscent of cast bronze, comprised of the swells and depressions that are more often the purview of metal than clay, and yet her work is distinctly about the evocative manipulation of clay and the fluid nature of glaze. Green’s sculptures—handbuilt of stoneware coils and wheel-thrown pieces that she pinches, scrapes, pokes and punches—are emotive and elegant, achieving Green’s goal of finding beauty in the mundane or in ugliness.
Phoenix Lindsey-Hall is a ceramic, photographic and mixed-media artist. Lindsey-Hall’s research-based artwork centers on violence in queer communities. She began working in clay to avoid the specificity inherent in photography and instead consider how the victims, perpetrators and weapons in the hate crimes she was researching seemed exchangeable. While always sensitive to the individuals affected by this type of violence, her work explores a larger cycle of violence. Her fellowship coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Uprising, and with the Pottery located just blocks from where it took place, Lindsey-Hall decided to use her fellowship to recreate imagery memorializing that historic time and place.
Kari Marboe is a Bay Area artist and an Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Marboe’s work engages communities with each other and with the past by delving into archives and presenting response works in ceramics, photography, and silkscreened clay. She spent her fellowship looking into GHP’s archive to investigate the connection between the artist Daniel Rhodes and Greenwich House Pottery to inform the Duplicating Daniel project she was working on in collaboration with Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, CA.
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Details
- Start:
- July 17, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
- End:
- September 4, 2020 @ 6:00 pm
- Event Categories:
- Exhibition, Pottery
Organizer
- Greenwich House Pottery
- Phone:
- (212) 242-4106
Venue
- Jane Hartsook Gallery
-
16 Jones Street
New York, NY 10014 United States + Google Map - Phone:
- (212) 242-4106