Forces of Nature

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Fri, Nov 22, 2024
11:00 am - 6:00 pm
2024-11-22T11:00:00-05:00
2024-11-22T18:00:00-05:00
Asheville Art Museum
2 S Pack Square, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
Contact
828.253.3227
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Ceramic artists throughout history have become masters of all four elements—creating clay from a mixture of earth and water to shape their work, drying it in air, and hardening it in fire. Throughout this process, the artist decides which aspects of the work will be tightly controlled, and when the elements can step in to leave nature’s mark. This exhibition traces the historical, stylistic, and conceptual origins of work that either embraces or refuses the element of chance in ceramics, looking at modern and contemporary work made in Western North Carolina.