This week, NYC77Events was pleased to attend the closing reception of Earthen Delights at C24 Gallery in Chelsea. The collaborative show featured a stunning array of ceramic works from three artists who's displays are anything but your grandmother's china.
Hinrich Kröger is originally from a traditional potter's family, but his Faience works bend to no old-school subject matter. Beautiful yet provocatively intense, they make an extremely tantalizing statement fit for any adventurous monarch. Tea sets and vases hide a secret language met by those willing to
look for it.
Artist Steven Montgomery cites the corruption of the land by Detroit's auto industry collapse in his works, with an appearance of machine parts enrobed in Mayan gold and left to rot. The presentation truly felt like that of a fading industry desperately grasping at the opulence and influence it once had. It also beckons to a divisive future, a place of plastic, metal, decay, and shimmering ivory towers.
Brendan Lee Satish Tang's Manga Ormolu's subject matter is an homage to Japanese futuristic Anime using ancient techniques. French Ormolu is used to create gilded machine parts juxtaposed with ceramic Ming Dynasty forms of seemingly everyday objects in a world of science fiction fantasy. This collection is a love letter to Tang's diverse Canadian and Asian heritage, and serves up a conversation about how we view Asian culture in the West.
Works by other represented artists at the gallery included in these photos are by Pixy Yijun Liao, Sven Marquardt, Marie Tomanova, and Cheryl Molnar. C24's website offers a comprehensive database featuring professional photography of all works in their collection.
Writer: Andrea Lesikar
Photographer: Andrea Lesikar
Hinrich Kröger is originally from a traditional potter's family, but his Faience works bend to no old-school subject matter. Beautiful yet provocatively intense, they make an extremely tantalizing statement fit for any adventurous monarch. Tea sets and vases hide a secret language met by those willing to
look for it.
Artist Steven Montgomery cites the corruption of the land by Detroit's auto industry collapse in his works, with an appearance of machine parts enrobed in Mayan gold and left to rot. The presentation truly felt like that of a fading industry desperately grasping at the opulence and influence it once had. It also beckons to a divisive future, a place of plastic, metal, decay, and shimmering ivory towers.
Brendan Lee Satish Tang's Manga Ormolu's subject matter is an homage to Japanese futuristic Anime using ancient techniques. French Ormolu is used to create gilded machine parts juxtaposed with ceramic Ming Dynasty forms of seemingly everyday objects in a world of science fiction fantasy. This collection is a love letter to Tang's diverse Canadian and Asian heritage, and serves up a conversation about how we view Asian culture in the West.
Works by other represented artists at the gallery included in these photos are by Pixy Yijun Liao, Sven Marquardt, Marie Tomanova, and Cheryl Molnar. C24's website offers a comprehensive database featuring professional photography of all works in their collection.
Writer: Andrea Lesikar
Photographer: Andrea Lesikar
