The Inherent Meaning of Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artists on Return to Earth

Presented September 21, 2013 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.
'Return to Earth: A View from Today'
A panel of contemporary ceramic artists Nicole Cherubini, Ginger Geyer and Brian Molanphy, discuss with curator Jed Morse their perspectives on the role of ceramics in contemporary and historical art contexts. Responding to the works by Modernist masters Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, on show in the Nasher Sculpture Center galleries for the 'Return to Earth' exhibition, these practitioners discuss the merits and value of art versus craft; the transformative and therapeutic effects of working with clay as a medium; as well as the inherent meanings of the material.
Organized to coincide with the public opening of the exhibition 'Return to Earth: Ceramic Sculpture of Fontana, Melotti, Miró, Noguchi, and Picasso, 1943-1963', this symposium offers a number of new perspectives on the often-overlooked, yet ground-breaking work in fired clay of some of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Watch other presentations from the 'Return to Earth' Symposium:
'Divergent but Parallel: The Ceramic Sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti in Postwar Italy' - Marin Sullivan, Henry Moore Foundation Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds (UK)
• A Uniquely Italian Mod...
'Joan Miró and the Artigases: A Phantasmagoric World of Living Monsters' - Jed Morse, Chief Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center
• The Unbridled Creativi...
'Isamu Noguchi Ceramics: A Kind of Antisculpture' - Catherine Craft, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research and Exhibitions, Nasher Sculpture Center
• Relating to Nation, Re...
'Pablo Picasso: Life with Art' - Dakin Hart, Senior Curator, The Noguchi Museum, New York
• A Legacy in Clay: The ...
Featuring:
Nicole Cherubini, Artist, New York
Ginger Geyer, Artist, Austin
Brian Molanphy, Artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Jed Morse, Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center
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Great series of talks! Thank you!

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