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"In a group exhibition at The Clay Place, James Shipman's composite art made from steel and ceramics is a sensitive, supple
instrument for teasing out descriptions of things undecidedly organic
and mechanical, natural and artificial, born and designed. Shipman's
imagination remains simultaneously modern and rooted in humanity's
individual and collective experience from time immemorial. In 'Sand
Star' [35"x19"x18" $2,000.00] his wiry, bounding lines weave together a tangle of rusted
hardware orbiting cracked earth. These post-industrial artifacts join
the trail of commodities and technologies whose accelerated cycles of
obsolescence made each generation an endangered species.
Eva Kwong's festive-hued stoneware's shape is reminiscent of legs pointed
heavenward/upraised arms/animal ears lifted to full height to receive
something rapturous."
Pittsburgh City Paper 2001 |
