Stuart Gair Ceramics: East Coast Art Hop

2015 Warren MacKenzie Advancement Awardees

Northern Clay Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Warren MacKenzie Advancement Awards: Stuart Gair (Lincoln, NE) and Jacob Raeder (Chicago, IL). The grant period for each artist’s research and continued education is through May 20, 2016.

Stuart Gair

I recently recieved the 2015 Warren MacKenzie Award through the Northern Clay Center which has allowed me to travel across the country in order to view collections of art that influence my own work. The award will also enable me to take a workshop at Watershed Center for the Arts with John Neeely and David Peters in which time I will learn more about the reduction cooling process. Additionally, I will travel to the workplace of various studio potters throughout Maine in order to hear their stories of how they manage to make a living as potters.

Here are some images of intriguing collections/influences that I have come across in my travels....

Filthy Lucre Study: Shutter Wall, Darren Waterson's take on the Peacock Room, Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
This watercolor is a small part of Waterson's installation "Peacock Room Remix"

Detail of Buncheong ware at the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.

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Shaker Exhibit, Philadelphia Museum of Art

bowl with lotus petal design from the Southern Song Dynasty, China (left)
dish with barbed rim from the Southern Song Dynasty, China (right)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Glass vessel exhibit, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Buncheong Jar, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Paul Swenbeck at Fleisher Ollman Gallery

http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/artists.php

Richard Tuttle speaking at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/Artists/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistId=b4771389-4b5c-4753-b73d-aa8619bd5b7b

Richard Tuttle opening at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

http://www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/Artists/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistId=b4771389-4b5c-4753-b73d-aa8619bd5b7b

Philadelphia

Philadelphia, outside of The Barnes Foundation

Amazing collection of sketches at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Chuck Close, acrylic and graphite on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

nice visit to Greenwich House Pottery

Rothko, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

NYC

David Zwirner Gallery, NYC

http://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions-2/

Korean tea bowl from the Buncheong Era
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Korean Bottle from the Buncheong Era
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Such great detail in this work, even the luster-filled crack is highly considered
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Collection of Chinese wine bottles from the Yuan Dynasty at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Surprisingly, my favorite piece of the trip, a small pierced bowl from the Seljuk Dynasty at the Met, NYC

NYC

hyper-realistic painting by Richard Estes at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC

Polly Apfelbaum, Handweavers Pattern Book Installation, part of the "Pathmakers" exhibition: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury to Today
Museum of Arts and Design, NYC

Eva Zeisel
Museum of Arts and Design, NYC

Karen Karnes, flameware
Museum of Arts and Design, NYC

Korean Buncheong Wares
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Korean Buncheong wine bottle
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Korean Buncheong lidded jar
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Flower shaped cup with stand from the Goryeo Dynasty, Korea
15th century, stoneware with celadon glaze
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gourd shaped ewer with inlaid grapevine, Goryeo Dynasty, 13th century (right)
Double gourd shaped bottle, stoneware with natural ash glaze, Goryeo Dyasty, 12th century (left)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

HANDS DOWN best collection of Korean ceramics I came across on the east coast...included wares from various eras as well as an instructional video of how the vessels were traditionally produced!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

My favorite unplanned discovery of the trip was walking into this exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Titled "Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction, and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics" I was able to see in person many works of American ceramic artists who I have studied closely since I started in the field.