"Lorna Meaden : Habitual Rituals"
2010-09-02 until 2010-09-25
Clay Art Center
Port Chester, NY, USA United States of America

Clay Art Center is proud to present Habitual Rituals, a solo exhibition featuring functional pottery for life’s daily habits, such as caffeine, alcohol and sugar, by Colorado clay artist Lorna Meaden. The exhibit, held in the Choy Gallery, will run from September 2 - 25, 2010 with an reception on Saturday, September 11 from 6-8pm. Additionally, upstairs in the Henry’s Project space, we will be exhibiting vessels for flower arranging by seven current CAC artists. Admission is free.

For this exhibition, Lorna will be exploring life’s daily habits with her lush yet functional pots, whether they be good habits or not-so-good habits. On display will be works that are meant to contain coffee, tea, sugar, chocolate, alcohol and other habit-forming treats that are so much a part of our lives and rituals. About her work, Lorna states “I am interested in having my work display both practical and extravagant attributes. I am drawn to work that is rich in ornamentation, with lavish use of materials- both scarce in a culture of mass production. As explained in The Language of Ornament, “Ornament stood not just for everything that made pleasure possible: the energy to see and care about one’s environment, the ability to tell good work from bad, and above all the assumption, shared if not always articulated by the whole society, that beauty should, and could, be part of people’s everyday lives.” (Trilling, James, p. 191)

Lorna Meaden grew up in the western suburb of Chicago, La Grange. After receiving a B.A. from Fort Lewis College in 1994, she established a studio in Durango, Colorado where she worked as a studio potter for the next eight years. She received an MFA in ceramics from Ohio University in June of 2005. She has recently been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, and at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. She was featured as a demonstrator and lecturer at the National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts, as well as Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object. Her work is represented my several national galleries. She is currently a studio potter in Durango, Colorado.

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