EXHIBITIONS

Portraiture Beyond Likeness

March 12 - April 10, 2010


Davenport Gallery / In Conjunction with INDEPENDENCE:
The 44th Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Curated by Jo Lauria, Independent Curator & Art & Design Historian

Opening Reception: Friday, March 12, 6:00-8:00 PM  
NCECA Reception: Thursday, April 1, 5:00-8:00 PM
Gallery Talk with Jo Lauria: Thursday, April 1, 6:00 PM

Challenging conventional notions of portraiture, this exhibition presents a select group of artists who use this genre to reveal the human condition and explore the multiple personas that comprise identity.

This exhibition was commissioned by The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, the on-site liaison for the 2010 NCECA conference to be held in Philadelphia March 31 – April 3, 2010.

Participating Artists:
Tanya Batura, Rebekah Bogard, Andrea Keys Connell, Magda Gluszek, Phyllis Green, Curt Lacross, Esther Shimazu, Kim Simonsson, Dirk Staschke, Beth Cavener Stichter, Liz Zacher


Juror's Bio: Jo Lauria
 
Jo Lauria is an independent curator and an art and design historian, with a degree in art history from Yale University and in studio art from Otis College of Art and Design. She was decorative arts curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), specializing in modern and contemporary decorative arts, craft, and design. She has published extensively, organized numerous exhibitions, and produced and directed multimedia presentations and documentary films.

In 2005, she co-organized the traveling exhibition, Ruth Duckworth—Modernist Sculptor, and wrote the accompanying monograph on Ruth Duckworth, published by Lund Humphries. In the same year she coauthored with Suzanne Baizerman, California Design: The Legacy of West Coast Craft and Style, a design survey for Chronicle Books assessing the dynamic contributions California designers made to the field as charted in the exhibition series California Design.

Jo Lauria served as chief curator of the exhibition CRAFT IN AMERICA: Expanding Traditions, a nationally touring show that was hosted by seven American museums from April 2007 to May 2009. The exhibition was intended to complement the television documentary series, CRAFT IN AMERICA: Memory, Landscape, and Community, and the companion book to the exhibition, Craft in America: Celebrating Two Centuries of Artists and Objects coauthored by Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton.

For more information, visit the NCECA website.