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| Above: Michael Kaysen, proprietor of SideCar Gallery, raku firing with his CCSJ ceramics class, April 5, 2014. |
"From Utopia"
March 15 - April 19, 2014
SideCar Gallery
411 Huehn Street
Hammond, IN
http://clarebritt.com/
http://gallerysidecar.com/
Michael Kaysen
Media and Fine Arts 335 Ceramics Class: Raku Firing
April 5, 2014
Calumet College of St. Joseph
2400 New York Avenue
Whiting, IN
http://www.ccsj.edu/
"While Britt’s background is in photography, the work in [her] exhibition ranges from collage-based text pieces to a site-specific installation. Populating the main gallery space are framed 'Ransom Notes,' collages made of text cut out of fashion and lifestyle magazines targeting a female audience. Ransom notes come as a last resort, drastic means to extreme ends. To Britt the ransom note is about demanding and wanting and these notes represent Britt’s wants and demands of herself and of others. They quickly expand into mantras, things we tell ourselves, things we think but would never say. Ransom notes are anonymous and from that anonymity their author gains power. If the ransom notes are a verbalized communication of the artist’s interior life, then the installation in the second floor project space is a pre-verbal or nonverbal expression of that life. While the Ransom Notes have a tone of aggression, desperation and frustration, the installation is a calming ensemble of color and abstraction derived from Britt’s practice of meditation."
Quotation above from: http://gallerysidecar.com/artwork/3284127_Upcoming_Exhibition.html
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| Above: Clare Britt at SideCar Gallery, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Michael Kaysen, proprietor of SideCar Gallery, raku firing with his CCSJ ceramics class, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Clare Britt, installation overview, at SideCar Gallery, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Michael Kaysen, outside SideCar Gallery, preparing for a raku firing with his CCSJ ceramics class, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: SideCar Gallery, 411 Huehn Street, Hammond, IN, at sunset on April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Michael Kaysen, proprietor of SideCar Gallery, raku firing with his CCSJ ceramics class, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Clare Britt at SideCar Gallery, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Michael Kaysen, proprietor of SideCar Gallery, loads a kiln for his CCSJ ceramics class, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Clare Britt's installation in the attic at SideCar Gallery, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Michael Kaysen with his CCSJ ceramics students: Amber, Jessica, Rachel, and Kacey, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: A participant in the CCSJ raku firing at SideCar Gallery, April 5, 2014. |
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| Above: Michael Kaysen, proprietor of SideCar Gallery, raku firing with his CCSJ ceramics class, April 5, 2014. |
Images (1-13) April 5, 2014;
Copyright Paul E. Germanos.
See related post: http://chicagoartworld.blogspot.com/2015/01/2015-michael-kaysen-65grand.html
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