Ceramics

Ceramic, wood, Leather, Epoxy 28"h x 22"w x 7"d Provenance: Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, Washington

Acrylic, epoxy resin, stoneware 33"h x 26"w x 17"d Provenance: Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago Illinois

ceramic, resin, transfer-print, glaze.

Knot

Through studies of Japanese methods for ceramic production, 18th century creamware, early 20th century enamelware, as well as further flung examinations of architecture and design — Rebecca Harvey creates versatile forms with a strong, clean, or minimalist approach to composition. This set of four icons represents a playful and non-functional side of the artist, the rounded objects have been shaped then fired with a simple white and yellow dipped glaze; the set finding relationships and harmonies in collective assortment. 4 small objects in Yellow and white glaze

An unfamiliar merging of two memorable entities from Valcovsky’s childhood within the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the delft — or ‘blue onion’ — pattern sits awkwardly on the iconic bust, as though tattooed. ‘Ornament & Crime’ hints at how an infamous icon can become remarkably commonplace and ornamental in universal usage, Lenin’s fearsome reputation distilled down to a decorative element that sits alongside the earthenware upon a mantlepiece. The title is a tongue-in-gesture to the work of Adolf Loos, deriving from his 1910 lecture that attacked ornamental works of art in modern society.

Large Feelie, oyster gray glaze with top seal.

Zimmerman’s abstract crushed and annexed distortions find context in the presence of the artist’s larger oeuvre, commonly consisting of tableaus of violent or orgiastic movement in figural multiplicity — often similar in complexity and a recognisable humanising and moralising tone to that found in the work of Hieronymous Bosch. This pair of sculptures breaks recognisable identity down to become informal and semi-representative male or female shape, the ceramic — roughly coated in a caustic glaze and cracked in firing — is only truly suggestive of a great stress impressed upon it.