Imprecise Measures
Imprecise Measures
Installation by Joan Lurie
March 18 - April 5, 2015
chashama 300
300 West 30 Street (at Eighth Avenue)
New York, NY
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 18, 6-7 pm
Please RSVP joan@joanlurie.com for reception information.
Installation is on display from the street 24/7.
Joan Lurie's work explores ways of building structural forms with ceramics. While the forms are inspired by architecture, the inherent organic quality of the clay brings the work back to soft forms more reminiscent of biological and natural things. Her work mixes the hidden worlds of microscopic views with a fascination for cellular structures in modernist architecture. These influences reappear in her work as ever-changing associations between man-made and natural objects. It is in the back and forth between the natural and the built world, and the repetition and random complexity of organic systems, that her work finds its meaning.
Her work is made from porcelain and porcelain paper clay. Her process begins by combining thrown forms into a basic shape, then adding bands of clay to the exterior creating an armature in reverse on the outside of the form. She then cuts away some of the underlying form and begins adding to the bands with paper clay. During this process, a logic appears allowing the pieces to find their own structure.
Artist Biography:
Born in New York City, Joan is a ceramic artist working in Brooklyn. She studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology (BFA 1981) and New York University and the International Center of Photography (MA 1987). She has exhibited her photographic work nationally and received an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 1991.
Her interest in clay grew out of her photographic works, which incorporated images of ceramics along with other crafts; micro and macro photographs of biological and plant forms; architecture and technology. In 2000, Joan began to concentrate exclusively on ceramics. Her ceramic work has been exhibited at the 9th International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan, The International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics in Croatia, the International Ceramics Biennale in Cluj, Romania, at the Affordable Art Fair in New York, Art Chicago, Art Market Hamptons, Scope Miami, Scope New York and Art Houston. In 2009, Joan was a resident artist at the Museum of Art and Design. She is represented by the Muriel Guepin Gallery.
For more information, contact the artist at joan@joanlurie.com.
Installation by Joan Lurie
March 18 - April 5, 2015
chashama 300
300 West 30 Street (at Eighth Avenue)
New York, NY
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 18, 6-7 pm
Please RSVP joan@joanlurie.com for reception information.
Installation is on display from the street 24/7.
Joan Lurie's work explores ways of building structural forms with ceramics. While the forms are inspired by architecture, the inherent organic quality of the clay brings the work back to soft forms more reminiscent of biological and natural things. Her work mixes the hidden worlds of microscopic views with a fascination for cellular structures in modernist architecture. These influences reappear in her work as ever-changing associations between man-made and natural objects. It is in the back and forth between the natural and the built world, and the repetition and random complexity of organic systems, that her work finds its meaning.
Her work is made from porcelain and porcelain paper clay. Her process begins by combining thrown forms into a basic shape, then adding bands of clay to the exterior creating an armature in reverse on the outside of the form. She then cuts away some of the underlying form and begins adding to the bands with paper clay. During this process, a logic appears allowing the pieces to find their own structure.
Artist Biography:
Born in New York City, Joan is a ceramic artist working in Brooklyn. She studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology (BFA 1981) and New York University and the International Center of Photography (MA 1987). She has exhibited her photographic work nationally and received an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 1991.
Her interest in clay grew out of her photographic works, which incorporated images of ceramics along with other crafts; micro and macro photographs of biological and plant forms; architecture and technology. In 2000, Joan began to concentrate exclusively on ceramics. Her ceramic work has been exhibited at the 9th International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan, The International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics in Croatia, the International Ceramics Biennale in Cluj, Romania, at the Affordable Art Fair in New York, Art Chicago, Art Market Hamptons, Scope Miami, Scope New York and Art Houston. In 2009, Joan was a resident artist at the Museum of Art and Design. She is represented by the Muriel Guepin Gallery.
For more information, contact the artist at joan@joanlurie.com.
