Call of the Ancestors: Ceramics of Jan McKeachie Johnston
| Hours: | Fri-Sun 12-5pm or email SeyrelWilliams@gmail.com for appt. |
| Ages: | Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Arts & Culture |
Opening Reception: Sunday 10/25, 3-5pm
Jan McKeachie Johnston, Irina Okula and Jill Solomon use organic processes to create a form that is imbued with a sense of the history of humans in relationship to the natural world.
Jan’s textured and curvacious sculptural pieces are wood-fired in a Japanese Style Anagama Kiln with multiple chambers over a period of many days.
The results are gorgeous red and orange tones flecked with ash deposits in golden hues calling to mind ancient fires of cultures and civilizations gone by.
Irina and Jill fire in saggars, (clay containers), surrounding their pieces with straw, sawdust and other organic materials that have been soaked in oxides.
During the firing these materials combust and dance upon the clay, leaving random marks and patterns evocative of geologic formations and the fiery chaos of nature.
Irina throws large open bowls and uses them as a canvas.
She also makes shard pots, broken and re-formed to create an integrated elegant and beautiful whole.
Jill’s Iconic Forms, platters and wall pieces are a tribute to the strong women who raised her as a child in South Africa and reflect the colors and lines of these early roots.
Photographer Heather McGrath’s raw organic sets of human in landscape are the perfect complement.
| COST | ↑ top |
free
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
www.lexicongallery.com/?page_id=26
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
15 Lexington Ave., #1, Gloucester, MA, 01930 map
Phone: 978-525-2111
128N to exit 15 towards Manchester, left on 127, right to Raymond St., Raymond becomes Norman, right onto Lexington Ave. 15 Lexington Ave. #1 is on the right.
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