Weapons of Mass Construction

Atmospheric Firings

Triton Museum, Santa Clara

July 30 to September 11, 2011

RECEPTION Friday, July 29, 7:00-9:00pm

http://www.tritonmuseum.org/exhibitions_AtmosFirings.php

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 left, Diane Levinson 

Wood-fire ceramic art, borne of processes centuries old, also contains aesthetics of modern art in the surface quality of the natural wood ash glaze. Even though the process of wood-fire glazing may seem like magic to the layman, it remains pure on account of the process and ingredients – clay pots and burning wood. We find beauty in the unending variety of the surface quality on wood-fire ceramics. The potter, master of control, must release the work to the fire, to chance. This sacrifice takes a great toll on the artistic ego; no one knows exactly what will happen inside the river of fire.

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Artists featured in this exhibition are Sam Hoffman, Terry Inokuma, Jenny Klein, Marc Lancet, Diane Levinson, Hiroshi Ogawa, Masuo Ojima, Andy Ruble, Tim Steele.