Fire & Form: Masters of Clay and Glass
12 June 2021 — 5 July 2021Featuring nine leading Canadian ceramic and glass artists: Susan Collett, Steven Heinemann, Loren Kaplan, Grainne McHugh, Paula Murray, Susan Rankin, Julia Reimer, John Paul Robinson and Cheryl Wilson Smith, Fire and Form: Masters of Clay and Glass is committed to blowing your mind. Pun intended. Together these artists are part of the mid-20th century ceramics movement responsible for "releasing the medium from the tyranny of function," as Rachael Gotlieb,(Gotlieb, 2006), emphatically described of the Funk Art clay movement that began in Saskatchewan in 1969. Likewise, these nine clay and glass heavy hitters have wrested the form of ceramic and glass from the strictures of quotidien functionality and embraced its conceptual, socio-political, socio-cultural, philosophical, and aesthetically compelling potential. Every medium has within it a message that is at once unique and infinite. Sure, the medium may in fact be the message if we are to accept Marshall Mcluhan's 1964 thesis, but its ability to communicate is multi-vocal and contingent on the form it takes. And each of these forms articulates its own compelling story.
Installation
Artwork
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Medium Flattened Form with Shard and Cane in Blues Susan Rankin $600 -
Passage VII Paula Murray $2,400 -
TP No 2 Steven Heinemann $2,500 -
Home John Paul Robinson $9,000 -
Fire Fly John Paul Robinson $18,000 -
Peace Study Tondo with Sky Blue Paula Murray $5,600 -
Ocean Airc Cheryl Wilson Smith $3,800 -
Xlarge Flattened Form with Shards and Cane in Reds Susan Rankin $1,800 -
Gossamer Series Cone Vessel Clear Julia Reimer $250 -
Gossamer Series Vase Extra Tall Clear Julia Reimer $900 -
Intensity Cheryl Wilson Smith $9,400 -
Gossamer Vase Medium Steel Blue 10 Julia Reimer $350 -
Gossamer Vase Medium Smokey Plum 7 Julia Reimer $350 -
Flying John Paul Robinson $24,000 -
Flying With Fire John Paul Robinson $18,000 -
Striped Porcelain Totem Vessel No.2 Loren Kaplan $550 Sold -
Dual Symmetry John Paul Robinson $6,500 Sold -
Striped Porcelain Totem Vessel No.5 Loren Kaplan $550 Sold -
Totem No 3 Loren Kaplan $550 Sold -
Striped Totem Vessel No 4 Loren Kaplan $550 Sold -
Striped Porcelain Totem Vessel No.1 Loren Kaplan $550 Sold -
XLarge Engraved Vessel Loren Kaplan $1,650 Sold -
Blue Moon 2 1/3 Steven Heinemann $12,500 Sold -
Taking Flight Paula Murray $4,800 Sold -
Blush Paula Murray $3,200 Sold -
Pulse Paula Murray $3,000 Sold -
Autumn Paula Murray $2,800 Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Cerulean Julia Reimer $275 Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Aqua Julia Reimer $275 Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Aqua Julia Reimer $275 Sold
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Small Flattened Form with Shards in Reds Susan Rankin $400 Sold -
Small Flattened Form with Shards in Oranges Susan Rankin $400 Sold -
Small Flattened Form with Shards in Blues Susan Rankin $400 Sold
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Passage V & VI Paula Murray $4,500 Sold
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Passage IV Paula Murray $2,400 Sold -
Passage III Paula Murray $2,400 Sold
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TP No 1 Steven Heinemann $5,000 Sold -
heavyweather Steven Heinemann $10,000 Sold -
Gossamer Bowl Large Aqua Julia Reimer $300 Sold -
Gossamer Bowl Large Smokey Plum Julia Reimer $300 Sold -
Gossamer Vase Medium Cerulean Blue Julia Reimer $350 Sold -
Gossamer Sphere Medium Steel Blue Julia Reimer $250 Sold -
Gossamer Medium Bowl Cerulean Blue Julia Reimer $275 Sold -
Gossamer Medium Bowl Steel Blue Julia Reimer $275 Sold -
Elysium Susan Collett $8,500 Sold -
Palisade Susan Collett $8,500 Sold -
Large Engraved Ginger Jar Loren Kaplan $1,450 Sold -
Medium Engraved Ginger Jar Loren Kaplan $650 Sold -
Ellesmere Steven Heinemann $5,000 Sold
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Ritual Vessel Tureen Jerry Rothman $7,800 Sold -
Basalt Long Necked Vessel Loren Kaplan $425 Sold -
Black Small Base Detail Vessel Loren Kaplan $195 Sold -
Platform Scott Pattinson $12,900 Sold -
Medium Flattened Form with Shard and Cane in Yello Susan Rankin $800 Sold -
Medium Flattened Form with Shard and Cane in Reds Susan Rankin $800 Sold -
Outcrop V Cheryl Wilson Smith $3,200 Sold -
Gossamer Vase Medium Clear Julia Reimer $250 Sold -
Ouvert No 37 Scott Pattinson $11,500 Sold -
Laurel II Susan Collett $10,000 Sold -
Dark Waters Two Grainne McHugh $4,800 Sold -
Metropolis Grainne McHugh $8,500 Sold -
Seas Four Meters Building to Six Grainne McHugh $3,800 Sold -
Ice Ridge No 3 Cheryl Wilson Smith $2,500 Sold -
Ice Ridge No 2 Cheryl Wilson Smith $2,500 Sold -
Large Rutabaga Victor Cicansky $2,000 Sold -
Flame Symmetry John Paul Robinson $8,500 Sold -
Lineage XII Susan Collett $4,000 Sold -
Laurel Pair I Susan Collett $7,500 Sold