LAUREN MABRY: PASSAGES

Lauren Mabry in studio with work in progress. Courtesy of the artist.

LAUREN MABRY: PASSAGESFebruary 6 - April 18, 2015

Belger Crane Yard Studios2011 Tracy Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri816.474.7316 | www.redstarstudios.org

Lauren MabryArtist Statement 2015

My sculptures and dimensional paintings are made of glazed ceramic. They're abstract, emotional objects wrought with bold, colorful marks. I am an intuitive risk-taker with a keen attraction to movement and material. I exploit the intrinsically perplexing nature of glaze. It is lively and seductive.

The clay forms I produce to paint on are elemental cylinders and basic curves that allow the highly pigmented glazes to clash and resound with a kind of musical timbre, �owing with movement, creating rich, hypnotic tones and textures.

I revel in the moments of uncertainty as I close and open kilns. Working with a calculated level of openness, I am aware of the transformative, capricious nature of ceramics.

Cylinder (detail), 2014, 8” x 15“ x 15”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of Belger Crane Yard Studios.

Lauren Mabry in studio with work in progress. Courtesy of the artist.

Spilling Pipe, 2014, 15” x 15” x 8”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Cylinder, 2014, 10” x 13” x 13”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Cylinder, 2014, 12” x 13“ x 13”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Lauren Mabry: Passages installation view. Courtesy of the artist.

Cylinder (view 1), 2014, 8” x 15“ x 15”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Cylinder (view 2), 2014, 8” x 15“ x 15”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Slope, 2014, 23” x 21” x 4”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Lauren Mabry: Passages installation view. Courtesy of the artist.

Spilling Pipe, 2014, 17” x 17” x 17”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Pipe Form, 2014, 20” x 28“ x 28”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Photograph by Christina Hankinson.

Pipe Form (view 1), 2014, 23” x 21“ x 21”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of artist.

Pipe Form (view 2), 2014, 23” x 21“ x 21”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of the artist.

Lauren Mabry: Passages installation view. Courtesy of the artist.

Pipe Composition, 2014, 58" x 18" x 18", industrial ceramic pipe and glaze. Courtesy of Belger Crane Yard Studios.

Cylinder, 2014, 62" x 36" x 26", industrial ceramic pipe and glaze. Courtesy of Belger Crane Yard Studios.

Pipe Composition, 2014, 49" x 18" x 18", industrial ceramic pipe and glaze. Courtesy of Belger Crane Yard Studios.

Originally from Madison, WI, Lauren Mabry is currently based in Philadelphia, PA as full -time resident artist at The Clay Studio. She received her BFA in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2007 and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. She recently exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (KS), the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), and the Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), among many others. In 2014 she received the Emerging Artist Award from the National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts. Also in 2014, she lectured at Harvard University and at the Arizona State Uni-versity Art Museum Ceramic Research Center. Currently Mabry travels between Philadel-phia, PA and Phoenix, AZ to produce industrially-sized ceramic sculptures in collaboration with Mission Clay Products. The year 2015 begins with a solo exhibition, Lauren Mabry: Passages, at Belger Crane Yard Studios (MO), and ends with a two-month residency in China, funded by a grant from the Independence Foundation. For more details and images of her work visit her website, www.laurenmabry.com.

Portrait of Lauren Mabry. Courtesy of the artist.

Back Cover: Pipe Form (detail), 2014, 20” x 28“ x 28”, earthenware, slips and glaze. Courtesy of Belger Crane Yard Gallery.

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