‘Look Out’ by Anne Marie Laureys at Jason Jacques Gallery, New York
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There is a wholeness in the tension that holds her sculptures together, which lies in the blurring of the interior and exterior boundaries.Jason Jacques Gallery is showcasing new work by Anne Marie Laureys, a Belgian artist based in Russeignies. Titled “Loo‘Look Out’ by Anne Marie Laureys at Jason Jacques Gallery, New York
There is a wholeness in the tension that holds her sculptures together, which lies in the blurring of the interior and exterior boundaries.Jason Jacques Gallery is showcasing new work by Anne Marie Laureys, a Belgian artist based in Russeignies. Titled “Look Out,” this is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States.According to a press note on the Gallery website, “Over the course of her lengthy career, Laureys' vision of what constitutes a vessel— and wherein lies its potential— has been refined into an effervescent series of forms reminiscent of gently-gaping heart valves, clouds, sand dunes, and rippling waves fashioned of paper-thin stoneware.”“The current iteration of her critically acclaimed work arose from the desire to maintain the clay’s tactility and the exciting potential of the medium, in tandem with satisfying a need to test its limitations,” states the gallery.There is a wholeness in the tension that holds her sculptures together, which lies in the blurring of the interior and exterior boundaries; thus the cloud-like solids approach the form of the vessel not only as a frame or container for void but as void itself. That is not to say that these pieces are empty, for Laureys conceives of her vessels as “metaphors for feelings.”The artist says that she likes her ceramics to have a sense of excitement and freshness, and they must be tactile. Making is exploring the physical law of the material, clay, in order to give form at the sensual engagement she has with. It is a celebration of a tense moment of meeting to create spacious, fine, delicate forms that reveal the speed, fluency and the ultra plasticity of clay. Into her thrown and altered forms, she tries to put an extremely personal sensibility that goes hand in hand with the tension and flexibility of a wet pot.She aims to develop a great variety of senses, to show the results of a very physical and palpable human gesture which is mysterious like the sexual experience.Anne Marie Laureys’ life-long love for clay began during her studies at the Luca School of Art in Ghent, Belgium. Since her first experience working with the material, she has not gone a day without it and considers throwing pottery to be her personal language of communication with the medium.Her work has been exhibited at the Icheon Biennale in South Korea, in Taiwan (Yingge), Japan (Mino), China (Shanghai), and more recently in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and at Florida’s Boca Raton Museum of Art for the exhibition Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Mad Potter (2017-18). The exhibition is on view through December 11, 2018 at Jason Jacques Gallery, 29 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021, USA.For more information, visit: http://www.jasonjacques.com/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more