Arlene Shechet Ceramics

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Arlene shechet ceramics. Arlene shechet employs an experimental approach to ceramic sculpture she tests the limits of gravity color and texture by pushing against the boundary of classical techniques sometimes fusing her kiln fired creations with complex plinths formed of wood steel and concrete. All at once a major critically acclaimed 20 year survey of shechet s work was on view at the institute of contemporary art boston in 2015 sebastian smee of the boston globe wrote. Arlene shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in new york city and the hudson valley. Arlene shechet s sculptures look like they may very well topple over.

Shechet has said of her work everybody wants to be able to tell a quick story but i do not want to make something that fits into a few sentences. Her objects bear the mark and memory of her hands. Arlene shechet is a sculptor living and working in new york city and the hudson valley. Top 10 contemporary artists working with ceramics.

Variously sensual humorous and elegant her clay based vessels evoke the tension between control and chaos beauty. It s in the harmonies and tensions between these colors and textures between suggestions of both order and anarchy. Shechet is a sculptor working in a range of materials including wood ceramics paper making porcelain and clay. Fascinated by the way things are made shechet likens her studio to both farm and factory.

View arlene shechet s works featured on ceramics now magazine arlene shechet s modeled surfaces demonstrate how clay mirrors the artist s touch. The sculpture s bulges hollows spouts and holes evoke bodily features and as the artist notes are suggestive of the curving. Employing an experimental approach to ceramic sculpture she tests the limits of gravity color and texture by pushing against the boundary of classical techniques sometimes fusing her kiln fired creations with complex plinths formed of wood steel and. Such disparate words can describe the breadth of arlene shechet s inventive and masterful sculptures whether her early buddha forms made of plaster and acrylic paint or her recent abstract sculptures rendered in ceramic and multiple glazes.

Arlene shechet was born in 1951 in new york city. Arlene shechet detail of idle idol 2013 all photos by the author for hyperallergic unless otherwise noted. A major critically acclaimed survey of her work all at once which the new york times called some of the most imaginative american sculpture of the past 20 years and some of the most radically personal was on view at the institute of contemporary art boston in 2015 with an.