Around the Bend and Over the Edge: Seattle Ceramics 1964—1977
Pollen and Paint: Laib, Homer, and the Natural World
Flashback
Morning Serial: Webcomics Come to the Table
From Public to Private: The Evolution of Portrait Photography in Everyday American Life (1850-1900)
Gary Hill: glossodelic attractors
The Brink: Andrew Dadson
Gary Hill: DIG
Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry MitchellAround the Bend and Over the Edge: Seattle Ceramics 1964—1977
North Galleries
February 11, 2012 – May 16, 2012
The Henry has invited scholar Martha Kingsbury to be guest curator for an exhibition of ceramics culled primarily from the Henry’s collections for the occasion of the 2012 NCECA Convention (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) being held from March 28–30, 2012. The exhibition will showcase the exciting period when Seattle artists played an important role in the radical revisions of what constituted ceramics and ceramic art, including the then hotly-contested issues of the purity of clay, the integrity of the vessel, and the validity of ceramic sculpture. Seattle ceramists c. 1970 devised weird vessels, funky narratives, elegant formalist inventions, and oddly machine-like explorations in clay. This exhibition will reaffirm Seattle’s key position in the development of contemporary ceramics.