[Sherry Williams dissolve Venetian line, 12" x 16", ink on paper, courtesy Emily Amy Gallery.]
I've got Connections withdrawal (The Met's recently ended 100-episode series during which museum staff ranging from Andrew Bolton, fashion and costume curator, to security manager Jose Rivero make connections between diverse works of art). So today I made one of my own: Dissolve.
[Sherry Williams dissolve to bare glowing, 11" x 14.5", ink on paper courtesy Emily Amy Gallery.]
[Jar (Hu) Vietnam, stoneware with traces of natural glaze, Han-Viet period, 1st - 3rd century, 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. Diam. (28.6 x 19.1 cm) Birmingham Museum of Art.]
BTW, we're at day 16 in the countdown to Dragons and Lotus Blossoms. The biggest Vietnamese ceramics show ever mounted in the U.S. open at the BMA in a little over two weeks. Click here for more.
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2 comments:
Fantastic juxtaposition, very apt. It makes one think about the differences between two and three dimensions, between intentionality and accident, between texture and pattern. When is a museum director going to invite you to curate an exhibition? Wouldn't it be great if you could select a number of widely different items from a collection and put them together, bringing out the connections and resonaces between them?
Emile,
Yes! I would love an opportunity to do that. Thanks for putting the thought out there.
And your point about 3-D vs. 2-D has further inspired me.
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