The Craft Contemporary now hosts its third clay biennial—an exhibition which highlights California ceramic artists and celebrates the diversity of the medium. This iteration, titled Wayfinding, centers on our relationship to the earth, as well as a celebration of familial and cultural traditions. Lourdes Jiménez-Pulido pulls influences from his Navajo and Pueblo of Isleta heritage […]
The five artists in The Sum of the Parts explore the physical and conceptual dimensionality inherent in quilting. They investigate core aspects of quilting including abstraction, pattern making, and how memories are embedded in materials, while expanding upon the form itself by pushing beyond its conventional structure using unexpected materials and sculptural techniques. On view […]
In the exhibition Heaven Is a Muddy Riverbed by weaver Diedrick Brackens at Craft Contemporary, the artist presents his poetry alongside his artworks for the first time. Known for his narrative and figurative weavings, the poetry on view allows the artist’s narratives to come to life, with threads and language woven together into a robust […]
On view: January 25–May 10, 2020 Across the street from LACMA, the newly renamed Craft Contemporary (formally the Craft and Folk Art Museum) is hosting its second clay biennial. The exhibition, titled The Body, The Object, The Other, focuses on clay artists who explore themes of the body. This is apt, given the intensely physical process […]
Craft Contemporary has opened its second Clay Biennial. "The Body, The Object, The Other" uses the human body as a springboard for material and conceptual experimentation with ceramics. Emerging and established artists (including Brie Ruais, whose Topology of a Garden, Southwest, is shown above) demonstrate how, at a variety of scales and modes of expression from sculptural objects […]
