20th Anniversary Clay on the Wall Invitational
Art Exhibition Presented at Texas Tech School of Art
Exhibition Title: 20th Anniversary Clay on the Wall Invitational
Exhibit Dates: January 26 - February 24, 2013
Exhibition Location: Texas Tech School of Art Building, Landmark Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 26, 6:00-8:00 PM
Landmark Arts and the Texas Tech University School of Art will open the 20th Anniversary Clay on the Wall Invitational, co-curated by Glen Brown, Ph.D., and Juan Granados on January 26 with a public reception from 6:00 – 8:00 PM in the Art Building Foyer.
“Clay on the Wall” as a unifying concept for an art exhibition, investigates the contextual meaning of ceramic art and its relationship to the gallery space. Gallery walls typically limit certain meanings and extrapolate others. Contemporary ceramic artworks have a complex relationship with this framework and ceramists typically reference this relationship to some extent in their work while viewers tend to associate it in the forms and materials.
Brown and Granados have selected work by 20 artists from the US and Canada to celebrate and participate in the 20th year since the first Clay on the Wall exhibition. The artists investigate the various relationships forged between humankind and their surrounding world, exploring the meaning of aesthetics, creation, deconstruction, sound and technology within their art. According to co-curator Brown, “what ultimately emerges from these differing interactions between clay and wall is a picture of heterogeneity that is immediately recognizable as reflective of the great diversity of contemporary ceramics in general.”
Co-curators:
Glen R. Brown, Ph.D., is a professor of art history and Associate Head of the Art Department at Kansas State University as well as an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva, Switzerland.
Juan Granados is an associate professor of art at Texas Tech University and founding Director of Clay on the Wall.
The Artists:
Dylan J. Beck | Manhattan, Kansas
Cameron Crawford | Chico, California
Chad Curtis | Glenside, Pennsylvania
Bryan Czibez and Shawn Spangler | Kingston, New York and Macomb, Illinois
David S. East | Brooklyn, New York
Cary Esser | Kansas City, Missouri
Neil Douglas Forrest | Nova Scotia, Canada
Del Harrow | Fort Collins, Colorado
Alex Hibbitt | Athens, Ohio
Jessica Knapp | Columbus, Ohio
Nicholas Kripal | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jae Won Lee | Mason, Mississippi
Linda Lopez | Elkins, Arkansas
Mathew McConnell | Elkins, Arkansas
Jeffrey Mongrain | New York, New York
Amy Santoferraro | Manhattan, Kansas
Nan Smith | Gainesville, Florida
Dirk Staschke | Portland, Oregon
Adam Welch | Highstown, New Jersey
For more information contact 806-742-1947.
Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. The Art Building is located at 2802 18th Street (near the corner of 18th St. and Flint Ave.). On Mondays through Fridays, paid parking is available on the fourth floor of the Flint Avenue Parking Facility.
Parking is free on weekends. Admission is free.
The exhibitions, speakers and related programs at Landmark Arts and the Texas Tech University School of Art are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Helen Jones Foundation and The CH Foundation. Additional support comes from cultural activities fees administered through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.
CONTACT:
Joe Arredondo, Director of Landmark Arts
806-742-1947 or joe.arredondo@ttu.edu
