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Posted on Mar 09, 2010
by Holly Bornemeier
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Live Forms Talking exhibition, March 16-April 20
Anderson Ranch proudly presents the group exhibition, Live Forms Talking, featuring three faculty artists, Scott Chamberlin, Kim Dickey and Jeanne Quinn from University of Colorado at Boulder, who each utilize the ceramic medium to dramatic effect. Combining the language of minimalism and biomorphism, these artists challenge the preconception of ceramic work as crafted object, and maximize the use of texture, color and negative space to make their works truly environmental.
Live Forms Talking will be on view March 16 – April 20, 2010. Please join us for the Opening Reception on March 16, 5-7 pm, free and open to the public. The exhibition and reception will take place in the Patton-Malott & Gartner Galleries located on the second floor of the Dows Barn administration building.
The show was co-curated by Ceramics Artistic Director Doug Casebeer and Sarah Roy. Roy was excited immediately about the intriguing use of the ceramic media saying, “This is not ceramics in a traditional form. This is clay doing backbends, being strung along and ultimately played with to challenge viewers’ expectation of the media. Kim, Scott and Jeanne’s sculptural forms engage and protrude into the exhibition space making the viewer aware of their own bodily presence and ultimately asking them to actively participate in what clay can be. ”
The references in these works are environmental, architectural and bodily. Artist Scott Chamberlin explains, “I have always been drawn to the spare, basic, and economical. I want my work to reflect this. However, the work does make reference to many things specific, including the body. The work is exploring that curious space that exists between being somewhat creepy and humorous. For the work to be successful, it should be simultaneously odd and elegant, and have a connection to the erotic, perhaps reflect an unsettling mixture of strangeness and seductiveness.”
Doug Casebeer easily describes his enthusiasm for these artists and the exhibition saying, “These great artists have never been seen in the Roaring Fork Valley, so this show brings the Front Range art scene to the mountains. This is a golden opportunity to see Colorado artists working at a very high level. “
Click here for more on the artists Scott Chamberlin, Kim Dickey and Jeanne Quinn.
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