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More years, More birthdays / More birthdays, More candles /
More candles, More light / More light, More truth /
More truth, More beauty / More beauty, More love.
— Excerpt from the poem “Birthdays” by B. Abbott, ca. 1918
HB381 is pleased to present For Joy and Grieving, an exhibition of improvisatory candelabras by the New York-based ceramicist Graham Marks (United States, b. 1951).
There is a peculiar quality to candlelight — still but never static, pulsating, shifting in response to small fluctuations in the atmosphere — which is shared by the gestural, unspooled coils, tenuously slumped loops, and pinched and spliced lengths of clay which make up Marks’ sculptural fabulations. His ceramics appear as though drawn incongruously in three-dimensional space, dancing doodles materialized from the air. Many are riotous with rainbow glazes pooled atop one another. They constitute a visual parade of color, line, and form....More
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More years, More birthdays / More birthdays, More candles /
More candles, More light / More light, More truth /
More truth, More beauty / More beauty, More love.
— Excerpt from the poem “Birthdays” by B. Abbott, ca. 1918
HB381 is pleased to present For Joy and Grieving, an exhibition of improvisatory candelabras by the New York-based ceramicist Graham Marks (United States, b. 1951).
There is a peculiar quality to candlelight — still but never static, pulsating, shifting in response to small fluctuations in the atmosphere — which is shared by the gestural, unspooled coils, tenuously slumped loops, and pinched and spliced lengths of clay which make up Marks’ sculptural fabulations. His ceramics appear as though drawn incongruously in three-dimensional space, dancing doodles materialized from the air. Many are riotous with rainbow glazes pooled atop one another. They constitute a visual parade of color, line, and form....More