Cup: The Intimate Object IV
Juror: Linda Arbuckle
Nov. 19th, 2005 - Jan. 6th, 2006
Reception Nov. 19th 6 - 9 pm
Welcome to the fourth year of our annual Cup: The Intimate Object exhibition series. This year's
exhibit was juried by renowned ceramicist Linda Arbuckle, known for her majolica-glazed functional
earthenware for which she has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Linda's work will be included in the exhibit.
Congratulations to all five prize winners - Liz Smith - First Prize; Annette Gates - Second Prize;
Amy Halko, Lorna Meaden, and Keith Schneider - Third Prizes. Click here
to view the exhibition, or you may select an artist individually from the list below. Please contact
Charlie at (260) 458-9160 or charlie@claylink.com
if you are interested in purchasing any of the pieces featured in the show.
Artists
** Denotes Juror's Choice Award
Juror's statement
The cup appears a humble object, but it's one of the artist's and collector's favorites.
By the time we reach school age, most people have had personal experiences with a cup. It's
a form we pick up to use, bring up to our face, and contact with our lips. You can't get much
closer to an audience than this. The intimacy and hands-on contact of the cup make it an
engaging vehicle for an artist to speak to an audience about personal vision through multiple
senses.
The cup is also an accessible object for patrons. Many cups are small-scale distillations of
the particular artist's vision, and can easily housed in a small domestic space, to be enjoyed
over and over. The daily dilemma of which cup to select in a cupboard full of different voices
is a delightful focus on the importance of personal vision as one goes about daily life.
Sculptural cups play on these relationship to ask us to think about what we know of cups and
our experiences with them, and entertain the information that often denies use, but in that
conflict makes a particular expression of the artist's thought for the audience to ponder.
My thanks to all who entered the show. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the works represented, and
found it a challenge to narrow the numbers to what the gallery could effectively display.
Additional thanks to Charlie Cummings, who cares a great deal about clay and artists, and works
diligently to showcase good work in a professional way.
- Linda Arbuckle
