Clay Art Center presents Low FIREWORKS

Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:38

Port Chester, NY - Clay Art Center is pleased to announce that 2007 marks its 50^th year! To celebrate, Clay Art Center has planned a whole year of exhibitions that highlight its illustrious history.  In May, Clay Art Center will be hosting Low FIREWORKS, an exhibition of sculpture by five CAC members who explore the vocabulary of low fire in their work.  The exhibit will run from May 5 – 26, 2007 with an opening reception on Saturday, May 5 from 6-8pm.  Additionally, in the Henry’s Project exhibition space (upstairs), we will be exhibiting Eight is Enough: Small Scale Sculpture, a display of sculptural works sized under 8 inches in each direction by 15 current members.  Admission is free.

Artists participating in Low FIREWORKS include Liz Biddle, Kelli Damron, Heather Houston, Marilyn Richeda and Barbara Rittenberg.  While they are joined together by material and process, each of these artists has their own unique vision.  Liz Biddle’s colorful image-transfer laden wall sculptures respond to her “interest in botanical shapes in nature such as spores, sea plant life, tubers and budding growth forms.”  Kelli Damron “abstracts parts of the body and combines them with fruit or floral forms, specifically orchids, to create her own personal narrative.”  Heather Houston, who also works with the figure, responds to her individual “philosophical understanding of the world” around her, resulting in an expressive body of narrative work that conveys the defined as well as the undefined. Marilyn Richeda’s colorful narrative sculpture brings us into the realm of dreams.  Combining human and animal parts to represent her feelings, her works are “sometimes grotesque, scary, or simply humorous.”  Barbara Rittenberg’s impressive wall installations are composed of multiple one-of-a-kind smoke fired natural forms, repeated to speak about the rhythms and patterns found in nature.

In the upstairs Henry’s Project gallery space will be Eight is Enough: Small Sale Sculpture, small sculpture by 15 current members, including: Beth Herod, Kiyomi Noda, Josette Patterson, Jennifer Cherpock, Katsuyo Aoki, Sarah Koster, Sally Aldrich, Denis Licul, Patricia Akinyemi, Natalie Kase, Barbara Rittenberg, Florence Suerig, Bob Miranti, Doris Montagna and Paula Cook.  Each of these artists will share their visions, extensive as they may be, in a format that is less than 8” in each direction.

Clay Art Center is a not-for-profit ceramic art organization offering exhibitions, clay classes for adults and children, studio spaces for clay artists and outreach programs in the community . It is located in the heart of Port Chester at 40 Beech Street, Port Chester, NY 10573.  Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10am-4pm or by appointment.  For more information Visit : clayartcenter.org or 914-937-2047.