This exhibition (the first on the artist at Thomas Dane) presents new works by Merz, who is now in her nineties: from portraits — which continue her interest in the border between figuration and abstraction — and
small fired clay heads, to works on paper.
Not exact matches
Also common throughout South America, empanadas in Peru (filled with either cheese or meat or vegetables) are sold in bakeries, on street corners, and in some
small restaurants with special
clay wood -
fired ovens.
He did away with the throwing wheel altogether and instead he would slam large hunks of
clay to the floor, mold them, join them together, cut them up into
smaller sections that could be
fired without exploding, and, after
firing, join them together again into large ceramic walls.
Rashid Johnson Untitled Ugly Pots, 2018 kiln -
fired clay with glaze in eight parts, dimensions variable
smallest pot: 6 x 6 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (15.2 x 15.9 x 17.1 cm) largest pot: 11 x 12 1/2 x 12 1/8 inches (27.9 x 31.8 x 30.8 cm) These two always interesting galleries on South La Brea are among the hundreds offering new shows every single month.
Just last week at Tefaf New York Spring, Lisson Gallery sold Untitled (Black Ceramic), two
fired clay tiles from 1983, for $ 450,000 while at Frieze New York, Kayne Griffin Corcoran sold two works from the «White Light Band» series: one from the early 1990s (84» x 56») for $ 400,000 and a
smaller work (36» x 36») from the late 1980s for $ 200,000.
The second part of DESTE's summer show consisted of an opening performance at the Slaughterhouse on Hydra titled Putiferio (which in Latin means «bring the stink», «chaos», or «a
small taste of hell»), for which Roberto Cuoghi
fired clay and metal crabs to fill DESTE's project space (a former slaughterhouse) in kilns built outside and above it, apparently modelled after various cultures (and constructed by following YouTube videos).