The artists we are taking to TEFAF New York are featured in Apollo's Art Market column this week. The article, by Eve M. Kahn, focuses on the amazing work by women ceramicists which will be shown at the fair from 10-15 May.
"Women ceramicists are proving just how far they can experiment with clay, stretching, tinting and firing it in new ways, which galleries will highlight at the TEFAF show in New York in early May. The wares for sale range from so ethereal or monumental that you can barely imagine how they are structurally sound, to so unabashedly preposterous that you cannot resist a smile.
London gallery Offer Waterman is bringing stoneware bowls and vases by the Scottish-born, London-based artist Jennifer Lee (b. 1956). On her oxide-laced greyish bodies, some as diminutive as espresso cups, she creates haloes and flecks of contrasting colours, from black to yellow. Her narrowly tapered bases give an illusion of instability. The artworks seem barely earthbound, despite their deadpan descriptive titles such as Asymmetric banded dark base, tilted rim and Dark mottled, speckle, rust base
Four black and orange terracotta vessels by the Kenyan-born, Surrey-based artist Magdalene Odundo (b. 1950), also at Offer Waterman, are all austerely named Untitled. Odundo generally produces fewer than 10 works a year, with gourd-like silhouettes and burnished, carbonised finishes. Clouds of sienna hues trail across some of the charcoal-coloured surfaces, resembling twilit pastoral skies...."
Read the full article here:
'The ceramics at TEFAF New York are worth getting fired up about'
