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Instal the new Bucket Knight1/6/2024 The entire show is an investigation of what we can hold, carry or catch, either as descent or ascent into a place a place of constant flux so prevalent today. Their rhythmic shapes counterbalance each other while intentionally exposing the disintegration of historical narrative. Mounted on the wall is a garniture of five cobalt blue vessels. Like all of the artist work, there is a slippage not only implied in the content but also in the forms themselves. Placed around the floor of the gallery are earthenware buckets, their open organic lattice-like form emphasizing the contained and uncontained. Seen as both markers for a beginning and end, these two works act as gatekeepers, yet their delicate form on the verge of collapse suggests otherwise. Fantasy in motion, a constant becoming, well, I guess somewhere between disintegration and realization the moment of transformation.”Īs you enter the gallery, two sculptures reference finial garden ornaments that echo the shapes of acorns or pineapples. O’Brien states “What do vessels hold, if not desire, desire for transportation, a fugitive concern at best. The individual works operate to construct an overall narrative drawing on the history of decorative arts while exploring the ideas of Eros, mythos and desire. Pinching, rolling and fingerprints show signs of the hand and connect the material to body.Ĭalvino’s “Six Memos (Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity and Consistency)” become the thresholds for the artist’s installation and the work themselves. James Harris Gallery is pleased to present our third exhibition by Alwyn O’Brien titled Astride the Bucket. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millenium” and Franz Kafka’s short story “The Knight of the Bucket,” O’Brien’s earthenware and porcelain sculptures push the medium as a vehicle to explore the question “What is the Vessel?” With an extensive knowledge of the history of decorative artists and a passion for the baroque, O’Brien’s objects dissect the definition of the vessel through her use of lacey hand rolled coils used in a deliberate yet chaotic way to construct volume and shape.
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