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For Immediate Release
8/13/2015
L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery Presents VISIONS IN CLAY 2015 August 20 - September 17 Reception, Aug. 27, 5 p.m. |
(Stockton, CA)
Delta Center for the Arts L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery presents the 6th Annual Visions In Clay Exhibition and Awards Competition, August 20 - September 17, 2015. The opening reception is planned for Thursday, August 27th from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. All events are FREE and open to the public.
Founded by the San Joaquin Potters Guild in 2002 through 2007, the Visions in Clay exhibition was turned over to the Horton Gallery in 2010 to continue presenting the ceramics based exhibition. Visions In Clay is the largest exhibition of ceramic works in the San Joaquin Valley, and has been featured several times in Ceramics Monthly Magazine. It’s an exceptional show of craftsmanship and diversity of style through individual use of materials.
Independent juror, Lisa Reinertson, public sculptor and ceramic artist, selected the works for this year’s exhibition. The selection was based on quality of craftsmanship, unique content and form, as well as technical skill. This year’s exhibit features 55 artists’ work from around the country, including Stockton artists Bruce Cadman, Aida Lizalde (a former Delta College student), and Kathy White. The award recipients will be announced by the juror at the Opening Reception on August 27.
Lisa Reinertson is nationally known both for her life size figurative ceramic sculptures and her large-scale public sculptures cast in bronze. Reinertson’s artwork conveys an underlying humanism and concern for the earth that can be seen both in her poetic ceramic figures with animals, to her historic bronze monumental portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, in which she blends narrative bas relief into her three dimensional sculptural forms. Her work combines a realism rooted in figurative art traditions, with a contemporary expression of social, political and psychological content.
Reinertson completed her MFA at UC Davis in 1984, studying with Robert Arneson and Manuel Neri. She has taught at several universities and colleges in Northern California including CSU Chico, UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her ceramic work has been in exhibitions and museums nationally and inter-nationally including the Crocker Art Museum, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, the Mint Museum, and the Museo Internationale Della Ceramica in Faenza, Italy. Recent exhibitions include a one-person exhibition, "Edge of Extinction", at the Pence Gallery, Davis, and a mid-career retrospective at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA). Reinertson has completed over 20 public commissions in bronze.
The Visions In Clay exhibition is the first of three shows for the Gallery’s Fall Season. The Fall exhibitions are discipline-based shows that focus on the primary arts curriculum of the Fine Arts Department: 1) Ceramics; 2) 2D–3D (painting, printmaking and sculpture); 3) Photography.
The Horton Gallery
exhibition formats bring in a large groups of artists to present their work, providing greater exposure to diverse styles and media to audiences, thereby extending the educational and creative experience for our students. The Gallery’s primary mission is to support student-learning outcomes in the visual arts curriculum by building knowledge in the aesthetic, technical, cultural and historical context of the visual arts.
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2015 Visions In Clay Exhibiting Artists & Awards Gallery Exhibition Hours: http://bit.ly/1GCAbxD |
Amanda M. Barr |
Constance McBride |
Ahrong Kim "Virginity" |
Maile Iwanaga - Ikebana Off the Chain II |
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