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Reflecting on Erik Gronborg
Aug 7, 2012 – Feb 16, 2013
THIS EVENT IS OVER
Erik Gronborg employs archetypes of functional ceramic traditions as conceptual vehicles to explore contemporary culture. Combining a 1,000-year-old-continuum of ceramic history with silk-screening, comics, china paint, and commercial glazes, Gronborg’s provocative “crafty” and non-precious approach is a precursor to the “sloppy craft” that is as challenging today as it was in the late 1960s. Working with Seattle-based artist Jeffry Mitchell, selections of Gronborg’s work will be drawn from local public and private collections. Through dialogue and conversation throughout the process with Namita Gupta Wiggers, and an installation designed by Mitchell, the exhibition will explore Gronborg’s use of craft as a tool for social commentary and political satire, and how the work relates to Mitchell’s own explorations of ceramics as a contemporary medium.
This exhibition will be located in the Collection Gallery.
Details
Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis St.
Portland, OR, 97209
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503-223-2654
Free for Museum members; $4 general admission.