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Essay by: Andres Payan Estrada
The Aesthetics of Everyday Objects
Published by: Atelier Editions
Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup is a 39-person group exhibition highlighting the works of painters, sculptors, mixed-media artists, designers, and ceramicists. Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup serves as a distinctive disruption from its stereotype, and is built upon the legacy of Betty Asher (1914–94), a renowned Los Angeles curator, collector, and dealer. Credited for being one of the first people to collect Pop Art, and for driving Los Angeles’s cultural scene, Asher simultaneously fulfilled her thirst for inventive works through the inclusion of ceramics and elevated its place from the domestic, at a time when prejudices against the medium were at an all-time high. Curated by Jenny Hata Blumenfield.
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Essay by: Andres Payan Estrada
Raven Halfmoon Monograph
Published by: Ross + Kramer
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Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX
October 1, 2022 - January 28, 2023
Juried by:
Andres Payan Estrada
Artists: Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, Eliza Hang Yee Au, Vincent Burke, Alejandra Carrillo-Estrada, Angela Corson, Erin Cunningham, Juan Escobedo, Cynthia Evans, Karla Garcia, René Garza, Nela Garzon, Ian Gerson, Timothy Gonchoroff, Roberto Jackson Harrington, Brandon Harris, René Lee Henry, Shang-Yi Hua, Qing Liu, Sarah Nance, Guadalupe Navarro, Tiffany Angel Nesbit, Abigail Ogle, Steve Parker, Lauren Peterson, Kamila Szczesna, Chet Urban, Dongyi Wu.
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National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Juried Student Exhibition
Library Gallery, California State University Sacramento
March 1 - April 15, 2022
Juried by:
Andres Payan Estrada
Patsy Cox
Presented in this year’s National Juried Student Exhibition is a group of artists that gives us a glimpse into a future discourse and potential in ceramics, one that has emerged from the messy and hard reckoning of challenging times. We are still emerging from these times. Forced to constantly negotiate and renegotiate the physical relations to our homes, our schools, and to others. We saw physical experiences dematerialize into pixelized exchanges and often reduced to fingertips tapping glass screens in vacuous attempts to connect to those far from us. We meandered through vast fields of digital information to be with each other, yearning for the opportunity to return to our physical spaces, to be with communities that nourish us. A harmonious scream that echoes into the depths of digital darkness and shatters the core of the histories that we’ve had to build our existence upon.
Artists: Tony Baker, Chase Barney, Amanda Barr, Danqi Cai, Daniel Clauson, Laura Dirksen, Molly Duff, Noah Greene, Danielle Hawk, Maxwell Henderson, Laura Jenels, Nick Kakavas, Yi Young Kim, Ray Lewis, Tasha Lewis, Mathew McIntyre, Paige O'Toole, Alisha Porter, Leonard Reidelbach, Logan Reynolds, Mary Rhein, Sage Rucci, Elizabeth Scott, Katie Stone, Haley Summerfield, Alex Thomure, Hye Rin Woo, Alice Zerini-Le Reste
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Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
January 25, 2020 - January 10, 2022
Curated by:
Andres Payan Estrada
Holly Jerger
The relationship between the human body and clay stretches back to the beginning of humankind, with countless creation myths that assert humans came from earth. Clay both records the imprint of the body and is molded by the body. Therefore, its paradox lies in the fact that it is both an extension of the self and an entity apart from itself. The Body is the Object is the Other. With an elastic understanding of the self in mind, the artists included in the exhibition approach the theme through unconventional and oftentimes abstract means, drawing from postcolonial, feminist, queer, and craft theories, often blending categories beyond recognition or reversing their expected dynamics.
Artists: Alex Anderson, Jenny Hata Blumenfield, Jason Briggs, Cassils, Sharif Farrag, Nicki Green, Phyllis Green, Raven Halfmoon, Roxanne Jackson, Anabel Juárez, Cynthia Lahti, Galia Linn, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Gerardo Monterrubio, Brie Ruais, Anders Herwald Ruhwald, Nicole Seisler, Meghan Smythe, Cammie Staros, Wanxin Zhang, and Bari Ziperstein.
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Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center, El Paso, TX
September 26 - December 16, 2019
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
February 2 - June 27, 2020
Curated by:
Andres Payan Estrada
The exhibition is organized around ideas that explore the function of clay as an anthropological device, representing early human technology and as an everyday contemporary object. Total Collapse examines the value of ceramic objects as artifacts with sociopolitical potential but also questions their role as mass-produced goods with potential impact on future histories.
Artists: Ane Fabricius Christiansen, Armando Guadalupe Cortes, Kahlil Robert Irving, Gala Porras Kim, Daniel L. Bare, Michael Jones McKean, Kristen Morgin and Unknown Fields Division.
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Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
January 28 - May 6, 2018
Curated by:
Andres Payan Estrada
Holly Jerger
The exhibition is organized around three major themes that represent the energy and activity in recent contemporary practice. Anti-disciplinary approaches negate traditional ceramic tenets of perfect form and refined glazing; instead, they prefer intense experimental manipulation of material and processes resulting in amorphous or imperfect forms. Ephemerality results from works made with moist or unfired clay. These pieces are often performative or temporal in nature since they subvert the kiln firing that turns clay into hardened ceramic. Some artists question the value of ceramic objects as indicators of class and personal identity proposing new sociopolitical interpretations for these ceramic works.
Artists: Brian Benfer, Susannah Biondo-Gemmell, Ling Chun, Armando Cortes, Patsy Cox, Julia Haft-Candell, Stanton Hunter, Kahlil Robert Irving, Trevor King, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Linda Lopez, Walter McConnell, Ben Medansky, Jonathan Mess, Kristen Morgin, Wayne Perry, Jami Porter Lara, Brian Rochefort, Anthony Sonnenberg, Emily Sudd, Cheryl Ann Thomas, Matt Wedel.
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