Sculpture Space NYC-Center for Ceramic Art Is Pleased To Present
“Points of Connection”,
A Two-Person Exhibition Featuring The Work Of Del Harrow and Yonatan Hopp.
Del Harrow and Yonatan Hopp - Points of Connection
Sculpture Space NYC-Center for Ceramic Arts
April 4 – May 3 2025
Opening Reception: April 4, 2025
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Sculpture Space NYC-Center for Ceramic Art is pleased to present “Points of Connection”, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Del Harrow and Yonatan Hopp. Both artists break down barriers between sculpture, digital fabrication, design, and ceramic process and we are excited to present this cutting-edge work to the art viewing public in New York City, with an accompanying essay written by Joshua G. Stein
"The practices of Del Harrow and Yonatan Hopp deftly examine the complexities of objecthood, neither stripping it of its discrete importance nor denying its dissolve into larger systems. In the work of both artists, distinct elements are rendered more so by their dramatic juxtaposition against disparate materials—a wood stick connects to a gooey blob of glazey clay or a ceramic stump sits atop a roughly-hewn wooden pedestal—but they still form parts of a larger art object. We know this because the elements anticipate one another through graceful arcs and radii that stretch out to meet their neighbors."
Joshua G. Stein
Principal, Radical Craft
Professor of Architecture
Woodbury University
Del Harrow is an artist and educator based in Fort Collins, Colorado. His art practice spans genres of sculpture and design, and integrates traditional manual and skill based forming processes with digital fabrication technology. Harrow's processes often utilize CAD design technology and ceramic 3-D printing, while maintaining a distinctly handmade quality. Harrow designs work using CAD software to also create plaster molds, through a "reductive" process using a computer controlled machine to carve material (foam or plaster) away. Some works are made by rolling slabs that are pressed into the molds and then assembled, while others are made using the process of slip casting, or utilizing ancient techniques like coil-building. “I work through a combination of old media and new media, forming clay directly by hand or in tandem with digital modeling and computer controlled machines. This way of working demands a continuous movement between the abstract and the concrete, between information and manual skill, forming a digital analog hybrid.”
Harrow has been invited to lecture widely on his own work and on the intersection of digital fabrication and craft in contemporary art and education. Recent lectures include Syracuse University/The Everson Museum of Art, The Auerbach Endowed Lecture Series at Hartford Art School, CT, and the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at Kansas City Art Institute. His work has been exhibited at The Milwaukee Art Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Arizona State University Art Museum, Vox Populi Gallery, The Museum of Fine Art in Boston. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum
of Fine Art Houston, The Arizona State University Art Museum, and the US Department of State Art
in Embassies Collection. In 2020 Harrow received a United States Artist Fellowship, “a $50,000 unrestricted award celebrating artists and cultural practitioners who have significantly contributed to the creative landscape and arts ecosystem of the country.”
Yonatan Hopp is an industrial designer based in Providence, Rhode Island and is an Associate professor in the industrial design department at RISD. He works predominantly in ceramics, with a hands-on research-through-making approach. His practice brings together methods and modes of work from industrial design and craft to investigate new possibilities for production of objects. “As a critical designer, I employ craft methodologies in which the maker is involved in every stage of the process, reacting and making decisions along the way. This level of involvement allows for questioning of some of the most fundamental aspects of object generation and the conventions on which they stand. Making is not a benign process or the mere execution of an idea. Rather, it is a research methodology, enabling one to experiment, evaluate and understand the world on both a material and conceptual level. Many of the projects I work on exist in the tension between two approaches: On the one hand an industrial design/architecture approach that strives to anticipate every aspect of a project’s lifespan, aiming for complete resolution, imbuing it with all the intelligence it needs to fulfill all its functions. On the other hand, a maker approach, quick-and-dirty, in which ideas are resolved while and through production, containing the liveliness, ambiguities and contradictions often encountered along the way.”
Hopp earned his BFA in Industrial Design from RISD and an M.des from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. A 2022 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in the category of Design and Architecture, he has worked on commissions and projects for clients such as Paul Smith (London), The Tel-Aviv municipality and the Kastiel furniture company. Yonatan has exhibited his work in venues such as the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Gardiner Museum (Toronto), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), and the Yingge Museum (Taipei). His work resides in public and private collections such as the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), the Israeli parliament collection (Jerusalem) and the Jewish Museum (NYC). Prior to his position at RISD, Hopp was an associate Professor at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University (2018-2023)
Sculpture Space NYC - Center for Ceramic Arts is a non-profit 501(3) (C) dedicated to promoting contemporary visual art focusing on the research and exploration of three-dimensional work with an emphasis towards ceramics. SSNYC-CCA‘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
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.