JUXTA-POTS :: JUNE 16 - JULY 14
Juxta-Pots is an exhibition in honour of the pot. It is a celebration of duality; an object of utility and beauty. Both artists are attracted to clay for its responsive nature and the ways that this material can be manipulated. The process is a constant conversation between the maker and the material.
As this relationship develops, repetition results in a continual refinement, an evolution without a finite answer. By combining the work of two artists who approach the creation of a pot in very different ways, we hope to reveal some of the tensions and aesthetic differences that arise when the material - clay as the medium - and the function - the pot as a utilitarian vessel/receptacle/tool,are manipulated through different personal and professional views. Through this juxtaposition we hope to examine the ceramic object as an example of form following function in a traditional manner, and form following function in an alternative manner.
Side by side, the artists and their objects reveal how these two approaches can, in complex ways, reflect each other from opposite work strategies and aesthetic points of view.
As educators in two very different environments, we are constantly reminded of the diverse approaches one can take to this material. As individual artists, we approach this material in very different ways. It is our intention to highlight some of the approaches and processes involved in making “juxt-a- pots.” By doing so we can continue to take part, as artists and teachers, in a complex environment where the pot can become a reflection of form and function as it exists within the personal and professional lives, the practice of emotion and the emotion of practice, that we experience when we approach each new pot, each new piece of clay.
As this relationship develops, repetition results in a continual refinement, an evolution without a finite answer. By combining the work of two artists who approach the creation of a pot in very different ways, we hope to reveal some of the tensions and aesthetic differences that arise when the material - clay as the medium - and the function - the pot as a utilitarian vessel/receptacle/tool,are manipulated through different personal and professional views. Through this juxtaposition we hope to examine the ceramic object as an example of form following function in a traditional manner, and form following function in an alternative manner.
Side by side, the artists and their objects reveal how these two approaches can, in complex ways, reflect each other from opposite work strategies and aesthetic points of view.
As educators in two very different environments, we are constantly reminded of the diverse approaches one can take to this material. As individual artists, we approach this material in very different ways. It is our intention to highlight some of the approaches and processes involved in making “juxt-a- pots.” By doing so we can continue to take part, as artists and teachers, in a complex environment where the pot can become a reflection of form and function as it exists within the personal and professional lives, the practice of emotion and the emotion of practice, that we experience when we approach each new pot, each new piece of clay.