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New York-based Hostler Burrows Gallery highlighted ceramic works by Kristina Riska, Babs Haenen, and Jasmin Anoschkin at the recently held FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco.Kristina Riska is among Scandinavia’s foremost contemporary ceramic artists. SheLatest from Hostler Burrows Gallery
New York-based Hostler Burrows Gallery highlighted ceramic works by Kristina Riska, Babs Haenen, and Jasmin Anoschkin at the recently held FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco.Kristina Riska is among Scandinavia’s foremost contemporary ceramic artists. She is also a senior member of the Arabia Art Department Society in Helsinki. Since the 1980s, Riska has been exploring, defying, and redefining the traditional tenets of ceramic sculpture with her unorthodox, large-scale works, inspired by nature and the properties of light and shadow. Riska’s new body of work continues to explore what is physically possible in the unpredictable medium of clay. Describing the artist’s practice, the gallery states: “she often begins the conceptualization of her works on paper, yet the design ultimately takes shape spontaneously as she works with the material. In this sense, her process is a foray into the unknown; with each unplanned, instinctive manipulation of the clay, she establishes a non-physical ‘internal’ space. Thus, we sense a powerful serenity in her work, an energy that emanates from the undulating, fluid curves and organic palette of glazes. These seemingly delicate sculptures belie an amazing structural integrity, achieved through Riska’s consummate skills.”Babs Haenen was born in Amsterdam in 1948. She creates expressive and impressionistic ceramics that give equal importance to color, line, and form. Haenen creates colorful, organic vessels with colored porcelain slabs. Her works are influenced by abstract painting and landscape motifs. The artist layers the slabs with pigment, which allows her to form thin ribbons of colored porcelain. She then folds, cuts, and sculpts these slabs to create her vessels.According to the gallery, “Babs Haenen creates evocative porcelain sculptures in which the aspects of form, line, and color bear equal weight and seem to ‘dance’ together as one whole. Greatly influenced by abstract art, her works are expressed in a painterly fashion. Landscape motifs travel in freeform successions of contours and biomorphic waves; the sculptures brim with the movement of the natural world, recalling the vagaries of the wind, earth, water, and sky all at once.”Multimedia artist Jasmin Anoschkin sculpts primarily in ceramic and wood. She is also a member of the Arabia Art Department Society and has exhibited extensively for the past ten years. According to the gallery, “Anoschkin’s exuberant aesthetic springs from an amalgam of sources, melding the languages of contemporary folk art, pop culture, and the toy industry. The artist’s sculptures of hybrid animals are conjured from her own fantasy world and personal experiences.”Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the works. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more