It's Sculpting Time at VisArts

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Each piece in Sculpting Time has a black sketchbook hanging on the wall with a question on the cover. Visitors are invited to pick up a small pencil and answer. Some of you may have waited your whole life to answer such questions. Kyan Bishop’s installation on the floor called A fascination with the potential of completely falling apart ($18,000) invites you to answer the question “Is this art? Why or Why not?”

With this interaction between artist and viewer, the exhibit goes beyond the hay, tree stumps, and pottery on exhibit. You can respond to the artwork on the spot.

A video on making ceramics is tucked away in the corner, along with another showing Louise Radochonski installing Fallen Figures in the Portfolio Gallery. Before I read the question for this piece I thought I sometimes felt like the figure, half-finished and torn apart. When the question was “Is it finished?”, I already knew my answer.

Some of my favorites from this exhibit:

Catherine White’s clay slips hang on the wall like signs weathered by the ages. In addition to manipulated plates, she also has a piece called Sketchbooks which is an assortment of books opened on a wall. The piece makes you feel like you’re getting a look inside her head, into her creative train of thought.

When looking at clouds and trees we sometimes imagine resemblances. Eric Serritella’s Birch Stump Teapot belongs in a fantasy world and one can’t help but be glad it’s preserved.

Laurel Lukaszewski’s Nameless Night ($8,400) hangs from the ceiling, a modern cascade of black stoneware and steel.

In the Children’s Discovery Gallery, kids can color pots and lids, glue pieces together, and learn about ceramics from around the world.

In this exhibit the “… artists have released clay from conventional forms to explore how time permeates everything.” Find out how until July 26, 2009.

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