NCECA Conference Alumni & Friends of Alfred Reception

You are invited to Alumni and Friends of Alfred Reception
as part of the annual NCECA conference
Friday, March 22, 2013 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 339AB Hilton Americas-Houston 1600 Lamar Street, Houston TX 77010

Visiting Artist: Kiki Smith

Visiting Artist: Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith will be on campus working in the Ceramics and Printmaking Departments from March 25- March 30th!

Public Lecture:

Thursday, March 28th, 5 pm Holmes Auditorium
Open to the public and free of charge

Current Grad John Emerson's work in REady Made part of NCECA Earth/Energy 2013, March 20-23, Houston.

John Emerson, video still, 2013.

READY MADE 
BRIAN BENFER, SHARBANI DAS GUPTA, JESSICA DUPUIS, JOHN EMERSON, JEFF FORSTER AND KAMILA SZCZESNA

In conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 47th Annual Conference – Houston, TX – March 20-23, 2013  

NCECA Reception Thursday, March 21, 2013 6 - 8 PM 


REady MADE features the work of six artists who integrate discarded items with clay and ceramic processes as a means of personal expression. Through this investigation the works transform from being “ready mades” to being re-made. While Brian Benfer's work is the resulting residue from his process, Jessica Dupuis and Kamila Szczesna dip their found objects in slip and fire, transforming them into completely new and often unrecognizable compositions. John Emerson takes a vastly different approach, slip casting old objects to create multiples that are then constructed into formal arrangements. While Sharbani Das Gupta also employs the casting process, she then reconstructs these forms with un-altered discards to speak to consumption and lost. Jeff Forster covers found objects in raw clay, exploiting the living quality of the material, to emphasize the fragility of the culture that produced them.

Lawndale Art Center 
4912 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77002

Eliza Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang Variations on Symmetry, Traveling Two-Person Exhibition, March 7 - April 13, 2013, Toronto.

Images: Eliza Au, Fragility of Belief (detail); Ying-Yueh Chuang, Cross Series #3 (detail).

Variations on Symmetry
Eliza Au 
Ying-Yueh Chuang

March 7 – April 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Ontario Crafts Council
990 Queen Street West, Toronto


Variations on Symmetry presents the work of Eliza Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang. Examining patterns and forms in relation to the spiritual and natural world, the exhibition showcases two bodies of work that offer an experience of intricate detail.

Variations on Symmetry is a touring exhibition, and has travelled to the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, BC, April – May 2012; the Kootenay Gallery, BC, June – July 2012; Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, ON, August – September 2012; and will be heading to the Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax, NS, April – May, 2013.

Ben Woodeson: The Belfry's debut exhibition. 6 - 9 pm Friday, March 8, 2013

Artist Ben Woodeson makes ephemeral sculptures that deliberately set out to confront both viewer and exhibiting institution. The works are frequently fragile, unstable and kinetic.

Born and living in London Woodeson studied at Glasgow School of Art. He is currently The Theodore Randall International Chair, School of Art and Design at Alfred University, New York.

www.woodeson.co.uk

The Belfry

406 Canisteo St.

Hornell, NY14843

underthebelfry@gmail.com

Directors:

                Ian McMahon

                Ashley Lyon