Exhibition in Long Island to showcase work by School of Art and Design MFA grads

这次展览, 名为“大毒蛇,” continues a four-year relationship between Alfred University’s School of Art and Design and Sculpture Space NYC - Center for Ceramic 艺术. The Long Island City-based gallery has exhibited the work of Alfred University MFAs in efforts to highlight emerging global directions within the ceramics field.

The 2024 exhibition opens with a reception 五月 24 from 6 to 8 pm and extends through June 22.

“We are coming off an amazing season of Ceramic MFA thesis exhibitions in the School of Art and Design at Alfred University,” says Alfred University Associate Professor of Ceramic Art Matt Kelleher. “Ouroboros will highlight work from all eight of our 2024 graduates in one space. It's a wonderful opportunity for these recent graduates to show their work to an New York City audience.”

艺术家:

切尔西麦克马斯特, 有加勒比血统的陶瓷艺术家, completed her BA in Art at Millersville University, 在宾夕法尼亚州, in 2019 and her MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in 2024. 在2023年，她被授予 National Council on Education for the Ceramic 艺术 (NYCECA) 研究生 Student Fellowship and the American Ceramic Circle 研究 grant. 麦克马斯特 makes work primarily using coil building and sculpting techniques with low-fire clay and traditional finishes. Her work seeks to find ways to represent her oral culture and traditions through the ceramic process. 

Daeun Lim, a ceramic artist/designer from 韩国, explores in her work the boundaries of functionality. 她曾就读于首尔梨花女子大学, 韩国, 在在线赌博攻读艺术硕士之前. 她的作品曾在德国展出, 中国, 韩国, 和美国, 她还曾在美国参加过驻留活动, 墨西哥和韩国. She was also recognized as an emerging artist in Ceramics Monthly in 2021. 通过她的工作, Daeun invites viewers to reconsider the traditional roles of objects and engage with them in new and unexpected ways through the question, 物体能做什么?”

乔尔Brodovsky-Adams, 来自温尼伯的古怪陶艺家, 曼尼托巴, employs wheel-thrown forms with highly patterned and decorated surfaces. Brodovsky-Adams took up ceramics in 2013 at a community studio called L’aluminé in Montreal, Quebec where he studied with ceramicists Marko Savard and Jennifer Wicks. He completed a post-bachelors studio certificate at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia prior to receiving his MFA in ceramics at Alfred University. He has several exhibition credits throughout Canada and abroad, including a group show at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, 安大略, 并在伦敦的throw Contemporary举办了一场群展, 英格兰. He was also the third prize recipient in the AX National Emerging Artist Exhibition in Sussex, 新布伦瑞克.

朱利安唐, a Taiwanese visual artist who holds a BFA and an MA in Crafts and Design, 专注于具象雕塑, infusing “happenings” into her work through glazing to create scenarios. She has been selected for the 2024 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, received the Second Award at the 41st Concurs International de Ceràmica de l’Alcora in Spain (2022), the Fifty Award in the 24th International Portrait Competition (2022), and was awarded a scholarship from the American Ceramic Circle.

莉斯Vukelich apprenticed with Simon Levin at Mill Creek Pottery, 在锡拉丘兹协助莉兹·卢里和彼得·比塞克, NY, and worked at Watershed Center for the Ceramic 艺术 and Arrowmont School of 艺术 and Crafts. She creates ceramic sculpture for ritual, performance, and interaction. 她的作品曾在当地和全国展出. 

斯宾塞的脸颊 是来自马萨诸塞州波士顿的雕塑家.他主要从事陶瓷工作. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a post-bachelor’s degree from The University of Colorado Boulder.

艾玛·凯耶 is a ceramics artist and educator currently based in the Northeastern United States. She holds a BFA in Art 历史 from Pratt Institute and an MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University. She has completed post baccalaureate studies in ceramics at Syracuse University and has been a sponsored participant at Penland and Arrowmont 学校 of Craft. In 2019, she was the recipient of Ceramic Monthly's Emerging Artist Award. She has taught and run ceramics classes and workshops for adults and children through non-profits, 公立学校, 以及社区空间.

加布里埃尔·约翰·波彻 是俄亥俄州东北部的视觉艺术家. His current work interrogates the meaning of nature in the Anthropocene through a queer approach to ecological thought, 并对陶瓷材料进行了研究. He was a 2022 presenter and exhibitor at the Yuma 艺术 Symposium and has exhibited sculptural and functional ceramics nationally. He received his BFA in Crafts with a concentration in glass and ceramics from Kent State University in 2017.