Christie Wright & Scripps 63rd Ceramics Annual in Art Ltd. Magazine

Ofcourse, I'm proud to share with you the work of my wife and business partner, Christie Wright. Her "Ceramic Cell Phones", –which she designed and created at the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch, The Netherlands– are built by hand from many tiny ceramic and wire parts. The body and the parts were developed using rapid prototyping technology as well as dripping clay. The body shape was based on a yet to be released typeface by yours truly.

This month's Art ltd., West Coast Art & Design has a great feature on the Scripps 63rd Ceramics Annual with a photo of Christie's Black "Ceramic Cell Phone". (She has a black and a white phone in the exhibition and has made different models, of which you can see examples on her website.)

Also see this previous post. And the Art ltd. website.

Clarence Morgan, Nancy Blum & Brian Dettmer at Romo Gallery

Romo gallery presents the works of Nancy Blum, Brian Dettmer and Clarence Morgan. This group show presents three unique investigations on the theme of duality. Morgan’s use of alternating organic shapes suggest an organized complexity and when combined with the chaotic repetitious sketching quality found in the background of his paintings we are presented with his duality: organization vs. chaos. In a more detailed and obsessive vain, Blum creates an environment where many dualities are repeated continuously across her paintings of intricately crafted patterns creating serene environments that make the viewer want to escape to her paradise. Her duality: natural vs. unnatural. Dettmer engages in this dialogue through his carefully constructed flower arrangements made from altered and transformed film from gangster movies. He presents his duality in and through is work: technology vs. tradition. Juxtaposing, duplicating, layering and repeating all find their way into the works of Morgan, Blum and Dettmer contributing to this advantageous presentation of dualities.

Blum has featured in solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery in New York, Kiang Gallery in Georgia, Pentimenti Gallery in Pennsylvania, Esther Claypool Gallery in Washington, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona and Circa Gallery in Minnesota. She earned her BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Blum currently lives and works in New York.


Dettmer has featured in solo exhibitions at Art & Idea in New York and Mexico City, Aron Packer Gallery in Illinois and Harper College in Illinois. His work has been shown at Scope Miami and London, Bridge Art Fair in London and MACO in Mexico City. He earned his BA from Columbia College and currently lives and works in Atlanta.


Morgan has exhibited at Reeves Contemporary in New York, Sonnenschein Gallery in Illinois, Thomas Barry Fine Arts in Minnesota, Harwood Museum of Art in New Mexico, Kidder Smith Gallery in Massachusetts and Katherine E. Nash Gallery in Minnesota. He received his MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design and currently lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78

[From The New York Times:]

Sol Lewitt, whose deceptively simple geometric sculptures and drawings and ecstatically colored and jazzy wall paintings established him as a lodestar of modern American art, died yesterday in New York. He was 78 and lived mostly in Chester, Conn.

Moon Joo Lee [Painting '03] Berlin Artist Residency

Moon Joo Lee [Painting '03] has been accepted to Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH's Artist Residency program, beginning in March, for a period of one year. The Kunstlerhaus Bethanien is a service enterprise whose goal is to further contemporary art and contemporary artists.

Chae Eun-young, Curator of Alternative Space Pool, characterizes Moon Joo's work as "...juxtaposing in a canvas the sights of ruined houses, construction waste, and rubbish heap...present[ing] a space we occupy in our everyday life. The viewer may experience not only our surrounding spaces that lie in the sphere of our property right, but the space of possibility that might exist in the environs of our lives."

With its 25 studios, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien represents one of the largest establishments among international residency programs. The selection of artists - predominantly in the area of visual arts - is carried out according to the standards of originality and creative quality. Individual applications are not accepted by the Kunstlerhaus, which owes its international renown as one of the most prestigious institutes for the support of contemporary art to the stringency of its selection criteria.