Richard Notkin
The Last Syllable of Recorded Time
White earthenware, glaze, watercolor and pastel.
77.5 x 51.5 x 2.5 inches
Image courtesy of the artist
Richard Notkin
The Last Syllable of Recorded Time(Detail)
White earthenware, glaze, watercolor and pastel.
77.5 x 51.5 x 2.5 inches
Image courtesy of the artist
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Belger Art Center / Red Star Studios Collaborate for Special Ceramics Exhibition
August 17, 2011
KANSAS CITY, MO – In October the Belger Arts Center will join with Red Star Studios to present an exhibition of works from one of the most revered ceramic artists of our time. “Richard Notkin”, opening Thursday, October 6 and running through Saturday, December 31, will feature large scale wall murals comprised of small carved tiles. Notkin's sculptural teapots and tiles can be found in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and many more of the world's leading cultural institutions. One of his signature teapots, with a skull and pyramid motif, is currently on display locally in the Bloch Building of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Notkin is a 1970 graduate of the famed Ceramics Department of the Kansas City Art Institute. He studied with Robert Arneson of the University of California – Davis, while earning a master's of fine art degree. Arneson and Notkin are linked not only through their Cal-Davis days, but also through their tendency to utilize social commentary as a base for exquisitely constructed ceramic forms. Notkin maintains a studio in Helena, MT, and travels extensively through the year conducting workshops on various ceramic techniques. Notkin was a featured speaker during the Archie Bray Foundation's 60th Anniversary celebration in Helena earlier this summer. The event drew more than 500 ceramic artists and collectors to the Helena Civic Center's auditorium. Concurrently, Notkin's work was featured in a three-person exhibition in Helena along with works from fellow KCAI grads Kurt Weiser and Akio Takamori.
In addition to the three-month exhibition in the third floor East Gallery of the Belger Arts Center, Notkin will conduct a two-day workshop on October 8 and 9 in the ground floor studio space of Red Star Studios. Belger Arts and Red Star share space at 2100 Walnut Street in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District. For more information on the workshop, visit Red Star's webpage at www.redstarstudios.org.
Belger Arts Center Statement.
The Belger Arts Center was founded in 2000 and since that time has hosted more than 40 exhibitions of two and three-dimensional artworks. The exhibits have attracted more than 60,000 visitors from six continents. The Belger merged with Red Star Studios, a ceramics collective, in the spring of 2010. The two groups are currently sharing a building, but Red Star Studios will move to the Belger Warehouse Complex at 2011 Tracy Avenue in the near future. The Warehouse Complex already serves as home base for the Lawrence Lithography Workshop print house and for a metalwork facility run by Asheer Akram. Akram fabricated one of the new “Shuttlecarts” which were recently unveiled at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The carts were designed by Peregrine Honig. For more information on the Richard Notkin exhibit, or the Belger Arts Center, contact Mo Dickens, gallery assistant, at mdickens@belgerartscenter.org , or 816-474-3250. |
