Curatorial Statement
Exhibition Posted Online: Monday, September 9, 2024 at 10 am MT
Join us for a closing reception in conjunction with our fall workshop with Matt Metz and Linda Sikora on Friday, September 27, 2024 5-7pm MT
M-USE is guest curated by our fall workshop instructors Matt Metz and Linda Sikora. Highlighting artist who inspire Matt and Linda in their own home, work will address the complexity of the ceramic vessel/pottery form as it is encountered by both the body (through touch and. use) and stirs the imagination (which can both make and change the mind).
Linda and Matt wrote:
Sitting in the main space of our home, where the waking activities of the day occur, we looked about us at the ceramic works/the pottery forms amongst us: in the center of the table; in the glass doored hutch holding plates and bowls and drinking cups with a crowning row of pitchers along its highest top edge; …on a display shelf in the kitchen and along the back of the counter; on the fireplace mantle; along the deep south facing windowsills; and on the end of the open stairs (like a low banister) that leads up to a small office/bedroom space. We thought of new colleagues we taught with and teachers from past student days and long-standing professional connections turned into sustaining personal friendships. What a gift to travel this path in such company. The exhibition represents a few of those individuals; with gratitude, we hoped to join them to exhibit work in the gallery at Red Lodge.
Participating artists:
Michael Ashley, Rebecca Chappell, Sanam Emami, Peter Jadoonath, Matt Kelleher, Matt Metz, Lindsay Montgomery, S.C. Rolf, Mark Shapiro, Linda Sikora, Kala Stein, and Shoko Teruyama