{"id":648,"date":"2018-11-05T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-gallery\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:41:29","slug":"strange-place","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/pastexhibits\/2018-19\/strange-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Landscape Studies 4<\/em>, 2015. Jason Lim. Image credit: Gajah Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Strange Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 8 \u2014March 31, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening Reception
Friday, February 8
6\u20139 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing Reception with NCECA
Friday, March 29
7\u20149 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-curated by Jehra Patrick (Law Warschaw Gallery Director & Curator) and Summer Hills-Bonczyk (artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Macalester), Strange Place<\/em> brings together contemporary artists from across the United States, Europe and Asia, who look to the language of clay, and ceramics, prioritizing the plasticity of the medium as a prompt to speculate on the behavioral and performative qualities of clay through a range of forms, including video, performance, sculpture, audio, photography and mixed media. Conceptual concerns among artists and objects propose pluralistic notions of \u201cplace\u201d \u2014 as real, and geographic, fantastic or ethereal, as well as oblique, or pointing to other- and neither-worlds, describing \u201cplace\u201d as mythical or through the lens of abstract ethnography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of the exhibition, the definition for \u201cstrange\u201d describes a space of unease that is both possible and impossible \u2013 not quite magical nor banal\u2014 and the feelings of belonging, presence, and resolve, are negotiated through a relationship with matter, body, and experience. This show takes a forward-looking view of ceramic practice, stretching our expectations for traditional forms and methods. Strange Place<\/em> views clay less as a medium tied to tradition, and more as a phenomenological substance, well-suited to traverse the pliant landscape of imagined realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring work by\u00a0Neha Kudchadkar<\/a>\u00a0(Mumbai, India),\u00a0Jason Lim<\/a>\u00a0(Singapore, SG),\u00a0Jason Lee Starin<\/a>\u00a0(Philadelphia, PA),\u00a0Allison Schulnik<\/a>\u00a0(Sky Valley, CA) and\u00a0Eva Vogelsang<\/a>\u00a0(Bern, Switzerland).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strange Place February 8 \u2014March 31, 2019 Opening ReceptionFriday, February 86\u20139 pm Closing Reception with NCECAFriday, March 297\u20149 pm Co-curated by Jehra Patrick (Law Warschaw Gallery Director & Curator) and Summer Hills-Bonczyk (artist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Macalester), Strange Place brings together contemporary artists from across the United States, Europe and Asia, who look […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"parent":656,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions\/1591"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}