Sculpture Space NYC is pleased to present the group exhibition "Alfred Ceramics MFA Graduates 2023.
Alfred Ceramics MFA Graduates 2023
May 26 – June 24th, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, May 26th, 2023, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
The New York State College of Ceramics and Sculpture Space NYC, once again mark their commitment to promote a new generation of artists working in ceramics through this annual exhibition, showcasing a diversity of works and techniques by recent MFA graduates of the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Through this exhibition, Sculpture Space NYC wishes to highlight emerging directions within the ceramics field.
The MFA class of 2023 in the Division of Ceramic Art in the School of Art & Design, New York State College of Ceramics Alfred University will exhibit a curated selection of work from their thesis exhibitions in the gallery at Sculpture Space NYC. The exhibition, entitled Alfred Ceramics MFA Graduates 2023 will be on view from May 26 to June 24, 2023.
Special Thanks to the Division of Ceramic Art at Alfred University, Johnathan Hopp and Walter McConnell for their support to the artists.
About the Artists:
Jake Brodsky
https://instagram.com/jake.brodsky?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Jake Brodsky was born and raised in Helena, Montana, a place with a rich ceramic history. He grew up using handmade pots every day, which profoundly informed his ideas of how pots can add to one’s home and life. He began seriously pursuing ceramics in his 20s through working at craft schools, community studios, and for other artists. Jake will receive his MFA degree in Ceramic Art from Alfred University in the spring of 2023.
Javaria Ahmad
https://www.instagram.com/javaria.ahmadd/?hl=en
Through her multidisciplinary art practice with ceramics as a major medium of work, Javaria Ahmad explores the ambivalent relation of everyday utilitarian objects and memory with traditional cultural practices that she observes in her surroundings. Her art practice examines a narrative of a middle-class domesticity as a physical and a metaphysical entity of unjust gender hierarchy for a South Asian woman. The meticulous process of her work replicates everyday routine that seems mundane yet mandatory. Her ceramic forms are recognizable at times, while abstract at the other times. She relates this idea of understanding her forms comparable to acknowledgement women of a stereotypical domesticity receive.
Paige O’Toole
https://www.paigeotoole.com/aboutme
Paige O’Toole is a ceramic artist from Garrison, New York. Focusing on the intersection of gender, space and the domestic, her work explores themes of memory through gesture, and illusion through perception. O’Toole’s mark in clay is both immediate and archival, lasting and tangible evidence of her insatiable touch. She is currently an MFA candidate at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and holds a BA in Art History and a BFA in Ceramics from State University of New York at New Paltz.
Rose Schreiber
https://www.clayakar.com/pages/artist-bean-jelly
Rose Schreiber holds an MFA in Ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She is a researcher and writer for the Ceramic Materials Atlas, a storytelling and environmental humanities project linking global industry, environmental ethics, and contemporary ceramics. For her contributions to the Ceramic Materials Atlas, she has been awarded the 2023 inaugural Environmental Sustainability Fellowship from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA). The Ceramic Materials Atlas has also received funding from the Center for Craft as well as from the School for Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University.
Prior to her current degree program, Rose completed an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. Past translation projects have focused on Latin American literature through an ecocritical lens. She strives to be an avid reader and writer, particularly of science and the environmental humanities. She is thoroughly vexed by the moral implications of contemporary ceramics, a field she questioningly loves.
Sean C. Kunz
https://www.clayakar.com/collections/artist-sean-kunz
https://www.facebook.com/SeanKunzCeramics/
Growing up on an island, in the Pacific North West of Canada, Sean always had a particular curiosity and awareness of symmetry, profile, and line quality in nature. Sean has a BFA in ceramics from the Alberta College of Art and Design (2005) spent two years as a resident at the Harbourfront Centre Craft Studio in Toronto, and completed his MFA in ceramics at Alfred State College, NY (2023). He currently holds a ceramic studio technician position at the North Mount Pleasant Arts Center in Calgary, Canada.
Shushank K Shrestha
https://www.instagram.com/shushank17/?hl=en
Shushank Kalapremi Shrestha is Nepalese based artist. His work fuses the past
and present with the juxtaposition of traditional forms of Nepali Traditional Art
interlace with modern culture of cartoons, animated movies, and its aesthetics.
Shushank is currently a candidate for Master in Ceramic arts at New York State
College of Ceramics at Alfred University, USA and received his BFA from
Kathmandu University School of Arts, Nepal in 2016.
Victoria Walton
https://www.victoriawaltonstudio.com/
Victoria Walton b. 1994 is an emerging visual artist based in Baltimore. They are a 2023 Ceramics MFA Candidate at NYSCC at Alfred University and has a BFA with a focus in ceramics from Towson University. Victoria explores the wonder and complexity of Black identity, creating sculpture and video works that center the narratives of women and gender-expansive people. Walton draws from their own life: reflecting on the intersection of her identities, ongoing battle with her health, and background of medical and emotional trauma. She further investigates the impact that historic societal factors and personal experiences have on the individual and the Black community, making multi-layered connections between clay and the body.
SSNYC Curatorial Program is dedicated to promoting contemporary visual art focusing on the research and exploration of three dimensional work with an emphasis towards ceramics. Sculpture Space NYC's mission is to stimulate creativity, new ideas and collaboration in ceramics-based investigations. Artists, designers and craftspeople of all backgrounds converge in this center to experiment, learn, make, reflect and grow artistically.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday: 2pm-8pm
info@sculpturespacenyc.com
Location: we are located at 47-21 35th Street, Long Island City NY 11101, near the 33rd Street/ Rawson Street stop on the 7 train.
