INNOVATION AND CHANGE: GREAT CERAMICS
Member Exhibition Opening Celebration
Sunday, June 6, 2010 | noon – 3:00 p.m.
Skilled hands, ravishing beauty…experience the craftsmanship of master artists:
Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics and Imperial Splendor: Renaissance
Tapestries from Vienna
Lecture: 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Great Ceramics with Brian Lang, curator
of decorative arts
Reservations required.
Gallery Talk: 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Demonstration: noon – 2:00 p.m.
Pottery demonstration with ceramic
artist Paul R. Moore
No reservation required.
Renaissance Tapestries with
Dr. Todd Herman, chief curator
No reservation required.
Members only. Individual membership admits one; all other levels admit two. Light
hors d’oeuvres. RSVP by May 28 to columbiamuseum.org or 803.799.2810.
Ron Meyers
American, born 1934
Jar with Lid, n.d.
painted and glazed earthenware
Museum Purchase
SC6: Six South Carolina Innovators in Clay
Mamie & William Andrew Treadway, Jr. Gallery 15
June 16 – September 19, 2010
This exhibition explores the work of six innovative ceramic artists who are, or have been,
active in South Carolina. Drawn from public and private collections, the featured works
illustrate a diverse range of technique, glazes and forms for which the artists are best
known. Featured artists include: Russell Biles (b. 1959), an artist from Greenville, whose
figural sculptures are deeply laden with social and political commentary; Jim Connell (b.
1951), a ceramics professor at Winthrop University, whose sinuous vessels are decorated
with elaborate glazes, many of which are inspired by ancient Chinese ceramics; Georgia
Henrietta Harris (1905-1997), a member of the Catawba Nation, who is largely credited
with reviving the Catawba pottery tradition; Peter Lenzo (b. 1955), whose technically
complex sculptures recall the 19th-century Southern “face jug” tradition yet remain
completely unique; Ron Meyers (b. 1934), the first instructor of ceramics at the University
of South Carolina (1967-1972), whose functional ceramics are brightly slip-painted in a
gestural, expressionistic style that can be both provocative and confrontational; and
Virginia Scotchie (b. 1965), current chair of the ceramics department at the University of
South Carolina, who incorporates familiar shapes when creating her vessels that possess
complex and luminous glazes.
A Gaffer working in the
Chihuly Studio Hot Shop.
INNOVATION AND CHANGE
Top Left: Robert Arneson (1930 - 1992), American, The Abstract Expressionist, 1985, glazed earthenware
Collection Stéphane Janssen and R. Michael Johns
Left Middle: Ralph Bacerra, Vessel/Violet, 1988, porcelain, 11 1/2 x 22”, Collection of the ASU Art Museum
Left Bottom: Beth Cavener Stichter (b. 1972) American, Object Lesson: Apathy, 2003, stoneware, terra sigillata
Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
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