contemporary ceramics

November 23, 2024December 7, 2024, by Theodora Bocanegra Lang

Polly Apfelbaum and Gregg Moore: Pot Shop at 56 Henry

Polly Apfelbaum, Gregg Moore, Pot Shop installation view. Courtesy of 56 Henry

Currently on view at 56 Henry’s 105 Henry Street location is Pot Shop, the gallery’s second exhibition of multimedia artist Polly Apfelbaum and ceramicist Gregg Moore’s joint pottery project. The previous collaboration, Feed Your Head in 2023, presented 100 lavishly glazed mugs in a close grid on a plinth with a corresponding glaze color chart installed nearby. Pot Shop is a clear continuation of the fruitful creative relationship between the two artists, displaying 207 works that each experiment with new shapes and rich color exchanges.

March 9, 2022March 9, 2022, by Melissa Stern

KATHY BUTTERLY AT JAMES COHAN GALLERY – COLOR IN FORMING

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Staring at Kathy Butterly’s ceramic sculptures, I am overwhelmed by an urge to reach out and touch them. The marriage of color and form is perfectly wrought, shapes and colors inextricable yet sharply distinct. I want to trace my finger along that delicate whisper thin band of orange in Between Things, and feel the little bumps along the rim of Luminious Flow. I want to feel the change between matte and gloss surfaces and the weight of the sculpture in my hand.