The Interpreted Figure

Museum Reception: Thursday, November 1, 2007 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

(following Perkins Lecture)

October 17 - December 07, 2007

Interpreted Figure is on display through December 7, 2007 with ceramic pieces and one glass object all relating to the human body. Included among the works are a larger than life-sized figure, a fragmented life-size torso, smaller than life-sized nude figures, a torso of a comic book character, baby-dolls, inscribed drawings, sprig molded figures on the sides of vessels, various heads, Pre-Columbian pottery and modeled figures, a Chinese tile with relief figures, head teapots, candlestick figurines, and a dinnerware set with a silk screened self-portrait of the artist.

Julie York, Display, 2000 (detail), h: 48: diam: 30”, ceramic, glass, acrylic, metal, Schein International Museum of Ceramic Art, 2000.48

Pat Parker for Glidden Pottery, figurine candlesticks, 1941, h: 11” w: 2-1/2” d: 3-3/4”, stoneware, glazed, Schein International Museum of Ceramic Art, 1993.65-66

Christina West, the boys, 2006, (detail), h: 33” w: 26” d: 59”, earthenware, paint, Schein International Museum of Ceramic Art, 2006.20

Artists include William Ellisworth Artis, Mark Burns, Frederick Carder, Michele Oka Doner, Jack Earl, Tony Hepburn, Doug Jeck, Hongwei Li, Kirk Mangus, Colleen Carey McCall, Pat Parker for Glidden Pottery, Daniel Rhodes, Cindy Sherman, Peter Slusarski, Akio Takamori, Vladimir Tsivin, Hirotsune Tashima, Michaelene Walsh, Christina West, Julie York, and Luo Xiaoping.

This exhibition was curated by Susan Kowalczyk from the Museum’s permanent collection.