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| When I bought a book at the used book store at Fort Mason last Friday, the cashier gave me a pass for the Ceramics Annual of America. This turned out to be a large 3-day exhibit of ceramic sculptures, with works mostly by Bay Area artists. 2 flamboyant lithographs by Robert Arneson are at the entrance, & I learned that many of the sculptors in the show are Arneson's direct artistic progeny. |
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| Carmen Lang, Trophies at play / 2011, white stoneware, glazes |
| Pieces ranged from these small, uninhibited figurines...
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| ...to this larger-than-life reclining figure.
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There were abundant displays of virtuosity. When I told the artist that I couldn't tell which items in this assemblage were real, she explained that everything but the marbles & the jacks is porcelain.
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| Evan Hobart, Away we go / 2010, Stoneware ceramic, steel |
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It was hard to stop looking at Evan Hobart's City Skulls sculptures, overbuilt cityscapes in the shape of dinosaur skulls. |
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I love their traffic jams, inspired by matchbox cars. |
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| Avery Palmer, Posterity / 2011, ceramic |
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This sleeping head in Avery Palmer's surreal construction almost seemed to be breathing. |
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| Shalene Valenzuela, Proper/Improper pumps / 2001 |
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Many pieces were amusingly anti-classical, like Shalene Valenzuela's ceramic versions of a housewife's accessories ... |
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| Belinda Berger, Country Life, "The Big Piggery" / 2012, earthenware |
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... & Belinda Berger's pile-up of pigs. |
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The pavilion's open space never felt crowded. There seemed to be a lot of art students checking out the show during my visit late Saturday afternoon. Many of the artists were present. Some were chatty & informative. Others silently watched over the people viewing their work. Sadly, I missed the pottery wheel demonstrations. |
2 comments:
Great report and photos.
Thanks! I'd never even heard of the CAA before, so this was a total gift. I took a lot more pictures, & the show was much more diverse than what I wrote about.
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