Form Over Function

Winston Wächter Fine Art Form Over Function

Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle is proud to announce Form Over Function: Ceramic Sculptures by Andrew Casto, Steve Lee, Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, Kim Simonsson and Dirk Staschke. Please join us for our opening reception on Saturday, March 4th, 4 – 7 pm.

Quite often when we hear the term “ceramics”, we think of a vase, a cup, a bowl. Today’s ceramicists are pushing far beyond the traditions of the medium and creating innovative forms, which happen to be made from clay. Selections by artists Andrew Casto, Steve Lee, Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, Kim Simonsson and Dirk Staschke demonstrate how diverse these sculptures can be. Each artist uses the medium in a drastically unique way. Casto creates gilded expressionist gestures; Lee makes beauty out of purposeful mishap; Mitchell imagines playful stylized elephants; Peled transforms shards of clay into organic growths; Simonsson’s figures enter straight from the depths of the forest; and Staschke’s vanitas paintings literally melt away.

Collectively, these artists have exhibited in England, Israel, France, Finland, Korea, Spain, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Belgium, China, and Japan, and are included in the collections of the Harvard Fogg Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museum of Norway, The Seattle Art Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, among many others.

Cover: Jeffry Mitchell, Elephant with Golden Flowers #2, 2017, Glazed terracotta with gold luster, 13 x 11 x 20 inches

Artist: Jery Mitchell, 2017, Glazed terra cotta grouping with gold luster

Steven Young Lee, Basin with Lotus Pattern, 2016, Porcelain, copper inlay, glaze, 27 x 9 x 13 inches

Steven Young Lee, Vase with Plum Blossoms, 2017, Porcelain, cobalt inlay, glaze, 16 x 13 x 11 inches

Jery Mitchell Bear with Binoculars 2016 Terra cotta 21 x 11 x 10 inches

Jeffry Mitchell Bear with Backpack 2016 Terra cotta 17 x 9 x 8.5 inches

Jery Mitchell, Elephant with Golden Flowers #1, 2017, Glazed terracotta with gold luster, 13 x 12 x 20 inches

Jery Mitchell Little Golden Elephant #9 2017 Glazed terra cotta with gold luster 1 x 2 x 3 inches

Zemer Peled, Black Dream 3, 2016, Porcelain , 10.5 x 10.5 x 5 inches

Zemer Peled, Untitled 5, 2016, Ceramic, 12 x 19 x 19 inches

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Zemer Peled Untitled 1 2016 Ceramic 22 x 19 x 19 inches

Dirk Staschke Fold 2016 Ceramic 23 x 18 x 8 inches

Dirk Staschke Fold #2 2017 Ceramic 22 x 18 x 8 inches

Andrew Casto, Assemblage 132, 2017, Ceramic and luster, 6 x 8.5 x 10 inches

Andrew Casto, Assemblage 135, 2017, Ceramic and gold luster, 28 x 9 x 16.5 inches

Andrew Casto, Assemblage 134 , 2017, Ceramic and gold luster, 8 x 11 x 5 inches

Andrew Casto, Assemblage 127 , 2017, Ceramic and gold luster, 10 x 22 x 9.5 inches

Kim Simonsson Moss Person 2015 Ceramic and nylon fiber 32 x 8 x 11 inches

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