Fire & Form: Masters of Clay and Glass
12 June 2021 — 5 July 2021Featuring nine leading Canadian ceramic and glass artists: Susan Collett, Steven Heinemann, Loren Kaplan, Grainne McHugh, Paula Murray, Susan Rankin, Julia Reimer, John Paul Robinson and Cheryl Wilson Smith, Fire and Form: Masters of Clay and Glass is committed to blowing your mind. Pun intended. Together these artists are part of the mid-20th century ceramics movement responsible for "releasing the medium from the tyranny of function," as Rachael Gotlieb,(Gotlieb, 2006), emphatically described of the Funk Art clay movement that began in Saskatchewan in 1969. Likewise, these nine clay and glass heavy hitters have wrested the form of ceramic and glass from the strictures of quotidien functionality and embraced its conceptual, socio-political, socio-cultural, philosophical, and aesthetically compelling potential. Every medium has within it a message that is at once unique and infinite. Sure, the medium may in fact be the message if we are to accept Marshall Mcluhan's 1964 thesis, but its ability to communicate is multi-vocal and contingent on the form it takes. And each of these forms articulates its own compelling story.
Installation
Artwork
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Dual Symmetry John Paul Robinson $6,500 -
Medium Flattened Form with Shard and Cane in Blues Susan Rankin $600 -
Passage VII Paula Murray $2,400 -
TP No 2 Steven Heinemann $2,500 -
Home John Paul Robinson $9,000 -
Fire Fly John Paul Robinson $18,000 -
Peace Study Tondo with Sky Blue Paula Murray $5,600 -
Ocean Airc Cheryl Wilson Smith $3,800 -
Xlarge Flattened Form with Shards and Cane in Reds Susan Rankin $1,800 -
Gossamer Series Cone Vessel Clear Julia Reimer $250 -
Gossamer Series Vase Extra Tall Clear Julia Reimer $900 -
Intensity Cheryl Wilson Smith $9,400 -
Gossamer Vase Medium Steel Blue 10 Julia Reimer $350 -
Gossamer Vase Medium Smokey Plum 7 Julia Reimer $350 -
Ice Ridge No 3 Cheryl Wilson Smith $2,500 -
Ice Ridge No 2 Cheryl Wilson Smith $2,500 -
Flying John Paul Robinson $24,000 -
Flying With Fire John Paul Robinson $18,000 -
Striped Porcelain Totem Vessel No.2 Loren Kaplan Sold -
Striped Porcelain Totem Vessel No.5 Loren Kaplan Sold -
Totem No 3 Loren Kaplan Sold -
Striped Totem Vessel No 4 Loren Kaplan Sold -
Striped Porcelain Totem Vessel No.1 Loren Kaplan Sold -
XLarge Engraved Vessel Loren Kaplan Sold -
Blue Moon 2 1/3 Steven Heinemann Sold -
Taking Flight Paula Murray Sold -
Blush Paula Murray Sold -
Pulse Paula Murray Sold -
Autumn Paula Murray Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Cerulean Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Aqua Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Aqua Julia Reimer Sold
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Small Flattened Form with Shards in Reds Susan Rankin Sold -
Small Flattened Form with Shards in Oranges Susan Rankin Sold -
Small Flattened Form with Shards in Blues Susan Rankin Sold
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Passage V & VI Paula Murray Sold
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Passage IV Paula Murray Sold -
Passage III Paula Murray Sold
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TP No 1 Steven Heinemann Sold -
heavyweather Steven Heinemann Sold -
Gossamer Bowl Large Aqua Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Bowl Large Smokey Plum Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Vase Medium Cerulean Blue Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Steel Blue Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Medium Bowl Cerulean Blue Julia Reimer Sold -
Gossamer Medium Bowl Steel Blue Julia Reimer Sold -
Elysium Susan Collett Sold -
Palisade Susan Collett Sold -
Large Engraved Ginger Jar Loren Kaplan Sold -
Medium Engraved Ginger Jar Loren Kaplan Sold -
Ellesmere Steven Heinemann Sold
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Ritual Vessel Tureen Jerry Rothman Sold -
Basalt Long Necked Vessel Loren Kaplan Sold -
Black Small Base Detail Vessel Loren Kaplan Sold -
Platform Scott Pattinson Sold -
Medium Flattened Form with Shard and Cane in Yello Susan Rankin Sold -
Medium Flattened Form with Shard and Cane in Reds Susan Rankin Sold -
Outcrop V Cheryl Wilson Smith Sold -
Gossamer Vase Medium Clear Julia Reimer Sold -
Ouvert No 37 Scott Pattinson Sold -
Laurel II Susan Collett Sold -
Dark Waters Two Grainne McHugh Sold -
Metropolis Grainne McHugh Sold -
Seas Four Meters Building to Six Grainne McHugh Sold -
Large Rutabaga Victor Cicansky Sold -
Flame Symmetry John Paul Robinson Sold -
Lineage XII Susan Collett Sold -
Laurel Pair I Susan Collett Sold