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Louis Marak, Over the Rainbow, 2000, low-fired glazed ceramic, 18 x 22 x 10 inches, Everson Museum of Art; Gift from the Collection of Margaret Pennington, 2020.17. | |
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Optical Trickery and Forced Perspective: Over the Rainbow by Louis Marak
Over the Rainbow belongs to Louis Marak’s ongoing body of work that seeks to explore the construction of space, both real and illusionary, through optical trickery and forced perspective. Over the Rainbow is on view in Beyond the Blue, an exhibition that showcases joyful, humorous, and colorful works from the permanent collection. Click below to learn more!
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Experimentation in Clay: Shu To by Itsue Ito
Shu To embodies Ito’s interest in natural forms and artistry. Ito stated that this work expressed her rumination on the original landscape of Japan. The colors bring to mind the beginning of spring as flowers bloom along hillsides, while the shape evokes the natural mountains and valleys of Japan’s terrain. The abstract sections and crackled surfaces imply the hazy morning atmosphere that one would experience in the Japanese highlands. Click below to read more about Itsue Ito's experimental approach.
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Itsue Ito, Shu To, 1986, earthenware, 15 x 18 x 19 inches, Everson Museum of Art; Purchase Prize given by the Hancock Foundation, 27th Ceramic National, 1987, 87.37.5 | |
Miyashita Zenji, Inner Landscape, 1980-85, earthenware, 16½ x 14¼ x 6¼ inches, Everson Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. Tom Kennedy, 85.18.2. Photo: Jamie Young. | |
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Mastering the Family Business: Inner Landscape by Miyashita Zenji
Miyashita Zenji (1939-2012) was born into a family well known for their work in ceramics. Miyashita’s early years were dominated by works made by his father, Miyashita Zenju (1901–1968), a famous Kyoto porcelain potter. Miyashita resisted working for and inheriting his father’s prestigious studio, instead attending the Kyoto Municipal University of Art and Music. Click below to learn more about how he blazed his own path in the world of ceramics.
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From the Archives: Fourth Ceramic National Exhibition
The Fourth Ceramic National was the first National to travel extensively. The Museum selected one hundred works from the exhibition shown in Syracuse for inclusion in a traveling exhibition circulated by the College Art Association. All subsequent Nationals traveled to locations around the country after closing at the Syracuse Museum, and were instrumental in cultivating interest in the ceramic arts throughout the United States and in establishing the Syracuse Museum as a driving force in the ceramic world.
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Richard F. Bach, Director of Industrial Relations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, R. Guy Cowan, designer at the Syracuse-based Onondaga Pottery Company, and ceramist Carl Walters (seen in the photograph below) served as jurors for the Fourth Ceramic National. | |
Image credit: Sharif Bey, Protest Shield #2, 2020, earthenware, nails, and mixed media, 20 x 20 x 12 inches, Museum purchase, Deaccession Fund, 2020.14. Photo credit: Jamie Young. | |
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Recent Acquisition: Protest Shield #2 by Sharif Bey
Before the murder of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic rocked 2020, the Syracuse University campus was roiled by protests about systemic racism and representation. The crystallization of the Black Lives Matter movement propelled Bey to add overt protest imagery to a series of ceramic shields featuring faces derived from African sculptures surrounded by embedded nails that referenced nkisi nkondi figures from the Congo Basin whose power is activated through hammering nails into them. Protest Shield #2 is currently featured in the exhibition Who What When Where, which will be on view through August 22, 2021.
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