New York’s expressionist painter Ron Ehrlich scrapes, scratches, and drips paint on the canvas’s surface and even uses a blowtorch to fuse colors and forms, all of which achieves the idea that the “skin” of the painting is like the fired surface of a ceramic object that reveals the remarkable layers of these expressive non-objective …
Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens
February 9 - April 6, 2008
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Walter McConnell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1956. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut in 1974 and his MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University in 1986. He’s the recipient of individual artists’ grants from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and residency grants from …
Peter Callas: Sparks
October 6, 2007 - January 27, 2008
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Peter Callas is a ceramic sculptor working in the tradition of abstract expressionism who has produced a repertoire of sculpted images grounded in the Zen aesthetic. He is one of the foremost sculptors working in clay utilizing the anagama kiln to produce large scale expressionist forms. For many years he fired the works of the …