SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY
Lay of the Land: George Timock, Cary Esser and Paul
Donnelly
September 3 - October 30, 2010
Opening Reception First Friday, September 3, 7 - 9 p.m.
In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Kansas
City Art Institute,
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art is pleased to present Lay
of the Land
featuring three exciting new bodies of work by the
current ceramics faculty
George Timock, Cary Esser and Paul Donnelly.
Also on exhibit will be Misty Gamble's sculpture "Betsy
After School"
and a rare ceramic charger by Victor Babu.
GEORGE TIMOCK
Hungarian Herend Porcelain, Vessel FFF 2009 8.75"x
8"
George
Timock's center of creativity has shifted from Kansas City to Eastern
Europe. Beginning in 2005, Timock made a bold departure from the
large-scale raku-fired vessels that have defined his 43-year career. He
traveled to Kecskemˇt, Hungary to work and teach at the International Ceramic
Studio and his ceramics practice transformed.
In
Hungary, Timock found inspiration, uninterrupted studio time, and a creative
community of international artists. His intellectual curiosity,
creativity and ceramics flourished. Inspired by the architecture of
Eastern Europe and working with Herend porcelain, renown for its unique and
immense clarity and purity, Timock began to create lush, delicately carved,
intricate and intimate porcelain vessels embellished with precious, opulent
glaze lusters of European gold and platinum.
For
the past five years, George Timock has gone back to his "creative home
base" at the ICS every summer to continue his studio practice
This exhibition will debut seven of the exquisite porcelain vessels that George
Timock created during his time in Hungary.
CARY ESSER
Topo 1, glazed fritware 7.75" x 23.25"x
21"
Cary
Esser finds inspiration for her current work in the geometry of the natural and
material world. Informed by the history of ceramics, love of nature,
architectural ornament and pattern, Esser has created systems of glazed tactile
modular "tiles" of mass and verticality that can be arranged and
rearranged in infinite combinations creating the paradox of permanence and the
possibility of change.
These
"tiles" group together to form a series of high and low topographical
maps of unexplored territories, some glazed vibrantly with color, others
sparkling crystalline white, revealing and obscuring the form and texture of
the clay underneath. Made from the earth itself, the clay reveals cracks,
fissures, and strata that evoke geology and biology, landscape and
cell.
PAUL DONNELLY
Vase & Bowl, 2010, Oxidation fired porcelain, wheel
thrown
Studio
potter, Paul Donnelly, masterfully uses slip cast and wheel-thrown techniques
to create beautiful functional ceramic forms that animate and enrich the
domestic landscape. Donnelly believes that the home and how we live is a
reflection of whom we are and that the objects we collect and use shape this
experience. For Donnelly, functional pottery is an important expressive
vehicle precisely because it operates in this sincere environment.
The meaning of Paul Donnelly's pots evolves and becomes fully alive through
interaction with the life of their user and integration into the important
domestic values of home and family.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 - 5
p.m.
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Present Magazine
-Located in the Crossroads Arts
District-
2004 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
(816) 221-2626
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