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Sunday, May 11, 2008
If you're a clay aficianado, you need to run, not walk, to the Rosewood Gallery before the end of the month. Some delightful and amazing sculptures await you there. East of Ohio meets west of Ohio in this double exhibit: Kevin Turner of Indiana, Pa., shares the spotlight with Vince Palacios from Illinois.
Palacios's works are a marriage of print and clay, and this union is likely to endure. From his Alchemy Series are "Underfoot," with a two-tiered base in weblike triangular shapes supporting a cross between a bowling pin and decanter. A collage of natural, figural and geographical elements meanders under glaze on top. Another is "Power and Money," stacked blue and gray cylinder forms with coin images alternating with airplanes and topography.
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"I seldom know the destination when I begin. Often, I get hopelessly lost," Palacio said. "It is from here, this state of being lost, that I find my strongest direction. From this way of working, three elements drive my work: memory, improvisation and humor."
Palacio received his masters of fine arts in ceramics from Alfred University in New York and his BFA in ceramics from California State University-Long Beach. Private and museum collections include Alfred University Art Museum, New York, and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, North Carolina.
"Both artists work in subdued, minimalistic palettes and both artists create simple, stacking forms, but that is where the similarities end," said gallery coordinator Amy Anderson. "Palacios creates bold narratives with manipulated decals that give his forms a feeling like they have been manufactured by another life form, while Turner's delicate, organic pieces feel like they grew on another planet."
Indeed, it seems as if alien mushrooms have sprung from Grolleg or Limoge porcelain, Turner's media of choice. His oval and undulating bases with interesting cracks and crevices support a variety of forms: vases and narrow vessels with lace-like rims. In creating "Solenopsis Carpathea #4," he stacked bowls with varying textures that hold three tube-like forms with lots of negative space.
Turner received his BFA from the University of Mississippi, and his MFA from Southern Illinois University. He traveled to Kecskemet, Hungary, in 2006 for an artist residency at the International Ceramic Studio. He is an assistant professor of art in ceramics at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
"The two galleries will offer a lot of inspiration to both the beginner or advanced ceramic artist in terms of the level of craftsmanship presented in the show," Anderson said.
Contact arts writer Pamela Dillon at pamdillon@woh.rr.com.
How to go
What: Art by Vince Palacios and Kevin Turner
Where: Rosewood Gallery, 2655 Olson Drive, Kettering
When: Through May 30
Information: (937) 296-0294, www.kettering oh.org
