The Biennial also includes ceramic works by Sterling Ruby, John Mason, Shio Kusaka, and Pam Lins (in collaboration with Amy Sillman), and while the examples here are colorful and lustrously glazed, they serve the same conceptual purpose as the works mentioned above within the larger conversation the of Biennale — that is, they highlight the action of the artist's hand as works requiring
dexterous skill in a world
where such displays of manual proficiency are fewer and farther between than ever before.