Master Potter Kurt Weiser Gives Gallery Talk and Conducts Workshop
Erie, PA, August 14, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Master potter and painter Kurt Weiser arrives in Erie on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to conduct a free workshop at the Erie Art Museum’s ClaySpace, 1505 State Street, 3rd Floor at 6 p.m.
Weiser will demonstrate his clay and glazing techniques in conjunction with his Erie Art Museum Main Gallery exhibition Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser on view through Sept. 13, 2009.
Weiser will host a free gallery talk at the Erie Art Museum’s Main Gallery, 411 State Street, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 at 8 p.m. Weiser will discuss his works and distinct painting style and technique.
About the Exhibit
Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser is comprised of approximately 40 ceramic sculptures and several drawings illustrating Weiser’s signature style that fuses the art of ceramics with advanced china-painting techniques. Weiser’s porcelain vessels range from classically inspired lidded jars and teapots to unique mounted globes that are richly decorated with otherworldly imagery, full of allegorical and mythological references and lush landscapes.
Weiser’s figures, often nude and distorted across the planes of his vessels, move through steamy, Eden-like landscapes, interacting with the natural world they encounter. Themes of lust, predation, scientific curiosities, and the vulnerability of both man and nature abound in these scenes, resonating curiously with the cultivated vessel forms and refined medium Weiser has chosen. Combined together, Weiser’s vessels become three- dimensional paintings and are some of the most captivating work being done in ceramics today.
“”The ideas and subjects of these paintings on the pots are for the most part just a collection of my own history of fantasy and view of reality,” said Weiser. “They are built the same way we dream: around a central idea, a cast of other characters and environments that just seem to show up to complete the picture.”
Weiser (b. 1950) was born in Lansing, Mi., studied ceramics under Ken Fergusen at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1972-76, then completed an MFA at the University of Michigan. His work is in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Smithsonian Institutions’ National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of History in Taiwan, the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art and Institute of Ceramics in Shigaraki, Japan, the Los Angeles County Art Museum, Carnegie Mellon University and others.
Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser was organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center and curated by Curator of Ceramics Peter Held. This exhibit was made possible with the support of the Windgate Charitable Foundation’s Artist’s Exhibition Fund, which allowed for the catalogue and underwriting to all the museums hosting this exhibition.
The exhibition has traveled to museums and galleries throughout the United States.
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Weiser will demonstrate his clay and glazing techniques in conjunction with his Erie Art Museum Main Gallery exhibition Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser on view through Sept. 13, 2009.
Weiser will host a free gallery talk at the Erie Art Museum’s Main Gallery, 411 State Street, on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 at 8 p.m. Weiser will discuss his works and distinct painting style and technique.
About the Exhibit
Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser is comprised of approximately 40 ceramic sculptures and several drawings illustrating Weiser’s signature style that fuses the art of ceramics with advanced china-painting techniques. Weiser’s porcelain vessels range from classically inspired lidded jars and teapots to unique mounted globes that are richly decorated with otherworldly imagery, full of allegorical and mythological references and lush landscapes.
Weiser’s figures, often nude and distorted across the planes of his vessels, move through steamy, Eden-like landscapes, interacting with the natural world they encounter. Themes of lust, predation, scientific curiosities, and the vulnerability of both man and nature abound in these scenes, resonating curiously with the cultivated vessel forms and refined medium Weiser has chosen. Combined together, Weiser’s vessels become three- dimensional paintings and are some of the most captivating work being done in ceramics today.
“”The ideas and subjects of these paintings on the pots are for the most part just a collection of my own history of fantasy and view of reality,” said Weiser. “They are built the same way we dream: around a central idea, a cast of other characters and environments that just seem to show up to complete the picture.”
Weiser (b. 1950) was born in Lansing, Mi., studied ceramics under Ken Fergusen at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1972-76, then completed an MFA at the University of Michigan. His work is in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Smithsonian Institutions’ National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of History in Taiwan, the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art and Institute of Ceramics in Shigaraki, Japan, the Los Angeles County Art Museum, Carnegie Mellon University and others.
Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser was organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramics Research Center and curated by Curator of Ceramics Peter Held. This exhibit was made possible with the support of the Windgate Charitable Foundation’s Artist’s Exhibition Fund, which allowed for the catalogue and underwriting to all the museums hosting this exhibition.
The exhibition has traveled to museums and galleries throughout the United States.
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