+ 2024 SPACE FORM
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURAL JURIED EXHIBITION
FORM + SPACE 2024
October 4th - December 29th, 2024
Museum of Art - DeLand Downtown
100 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, FL 32720
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On the cover: Eliza Au, Tunnel, 2021, Stoneware, each section 18x18x6"
Photo: Megan DeSoto
On the back cover: Brooke Armstrong, Shoulders Like Wings, 2022
Porcelain, wire, silk, steel, 46x30x14"
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Form+Space 2024 is a dynamic exhibition that brings together contemporary sculpture, craft, and materiality. The selected artists demonstrate exceptional craftsmanship, innovative use of materials, and deeply conceptual approaches to their work. Representing a diverse range of voices from across the globe, the exhibition features both international artists and those from throughout the United States. These works reflect a vital conversation within contemporary sculpture—one that explores the shifting boundaries between sculpture and craft and moves toward the future within the field.
This exhibition reflects the expanded field of contemporary sculpture, where artists continue to challenge traditional materials and processes and embrace new forms of expression. It also signals the rise of a new generation of sculptors and craftsmen who bridge past techniques with forward-thinking practices. The works in Form+Space speak to this ongoing conversation, capturing the pulse of contemporary sculpture in its diversity of forms and ideas. A key theme throughout the exhibition is materiality. Artists such as Felipe Maldonado, Justin Quaid Grubb, and Danyang Song explore the intersection of digital fabrication and traditional techniques, with clay as their central medium. Through this juxtaposition, they navigate the tension between the precision of technology and traditional craftsmanship. Exploring the liminal space between materiality, architecture, and ceramics, Wade MacDonald challenges the viewer to ask questions and gain understanding about their individual roles within a broad social context.
Conversations surrounding memory, transformation, and perspective were central to the exhibit. Using a river stone as the anchor, artist Emily Booker meticulously translated its form into kozo fiber, steel, brass, and porcelain. With each shift in material, the stone subtly changes, mirroring the fluidity of memory and perception. Similarly, artist Brian Harper’s Bunker Series: Station Mount meticulously pieces together wood and clay, drawing inspiration from WWII bunkers in Iceland and Denmark. The work reflects on past power and protection associated with these structures, while also exploring how they have been transformed into obsolete spaces that have lost their power. Ideas surrounding human nature is another theme throughout the work. Artist Yoonjee Kwak uses masterful technique in clay, utilizing the material to embody human characteristics as vessels through the lens of Korean culture. She creates layered patterns with stoneware, recording movement and time through each layer of clay. Incorporating digital mapping and projection as their materials, artists Evan and Stacey Smith explore social inequities in relation to climate change – pressing into our own contradictions while bringing humor into the work to engage viewers in deeper reflection.
Form+Space 2024 offers a snapshot of the evolution of contemporary sculpture and craft, showcasing how these art forms have developed to bring us to this moment. The artists featured in this exhibition engage deeply with contemporary dialogues around materiality, addressing the questions we, as a society, are asking about ourselves and the future. As we look ahead, I’m excited to see how new questions will emerge and how the boundaries of materiality will continue to be pushed in innovative ways.
Martha Underriner Curator of Education Museum of Art - DeLand
It has been my pleasure to participate in the jury panel for Form + Space 2024 with Martha Underriner, the Curator of Education, and Tariq Gibran, the Curator of Art at the Museum of Art-DeLand. We received over 300 submissions to this competition, and I was highly impressed by the caliber of work presented. Unfortunately, we faced space limitations and could only accept a certain number of artists. As a fellow artist, I have been on both sides of the jury table and understand that it takes a lot of guts to put your work out there. To all the applicants, thank you for taking the time and effort to apply.
Jurying an exhibition is not an easy task. Art cannot be juried like a math quiz where there are right and wrong answers, and you can simply tally up the scores. Perhaps that makes it more difficult, but that’s the whole beauty of the field. To summarize the exhibition call, the jurors strove to select works that reflect contemporary artistic practice with an emphasis on three-dimensional media. Though the criteria was extremely broad, the jurors could agree on several main points. Craftsmanship, diversity of media, and a variety of different concepts and voices were key to selecting the work. I hope we have chosen a community of artworks that speak to each other, and in turn, speak to the viewer.
These objects tell stories. A deep cut versus a careful line may act as a window into the artist’s mind during the process of creation. Rough surfaces invite us to touch and feel, whereas delicate surfaces warn us of their vulnerability and potential to break. Ceramics may be cold, hard, and invincible, whereas textiles may float with the wind. Materials dictate how we use them – clay can be modeled with our hands and fingers; whereas wood can be cut and sanded, and stone chiseled and ground. No matter what media we work with, we are hyperaware of the physicality of the thing and our body in relation to it. Even in the digital age, we still gain satisfaction from transforming a material with our hands. Our creations represent our authorship and individuality, serving as a conduit between ourselves and the outside world. As a ceramic artist, I am familiar with the “behind the scenes” process that goes on and all the blood, sweat, and tears that finally give birth to the final object. Though the process may be invisible, it is an integral and critical part of the object, and sometimes more important than the final piece.
Material practice is always shifting and changing over time, holding a mirror up to our experiences and lives. Every object we create is in some way autobiographical. I hope this exhibition serves not just as a snapshot of contemporary material practices, but also the community we place ourselves in.
Eliza Au Assistant Professor of Ceramics University of North Texas
Eugene Ofori Agyei
In-Between, 2021
Stoneware, African Fabric, Yarns, Paint, Polycrylic, 19" x 17" x 34" Alfred, NY
Robert Aiosa
Untitled, 2024
Painted wood, Latex, 72" x 96" x 60" Orlando, FL
Lauren Allen
Verbum, 2023
Weavings, Crochet, Embroidery, 8' x 20" x 20" Denton, TX
Tony Baker
Unnatural Decay, 2023
Ceramic, 12" x 18" x 16" Saint Petersburg, FL
Brooke Armstrong Shoulders Like Wings, 2022
Porcelain, Glaze, Wire, Silk, Steel, 46" x 30" x 14"
San Antonio, TX
Susan Beiner
Land Over Time; Air, Water, Soil, 2024
Ceramic, Wood, 32" x 50" x 19"
Phoenix, AZ
Russell Bellamy Mill, 2019-2024
Stainless Steel, Polycarbonate, Hardware, Sand, and Oil, 61" x 28" x 84" Leesburg, FL
Emily Booker
Material Translations, 2024
Steel, Stone, Hand Pierced Brass, Kozo Fiber, Porcelain, 1.75" x 16" x 5.25" Chapel Hill, NC 2nd Place
Ariel Bowman Peale, 2021
Ceramic, Mixed Media, 28" x 12" x 8"
Flower Mound, TX
Doug Cannell Choker, 2023
Laminated Wood, Aluminum, Paint, 32" x 32" x 6" West Bloomfield, MI
Kyle Cottier we draw a magic circle, 2024
Wood, Rope, Paint, Metal, 96" x 20" x 20"
Knoxville, TN
Jacksonville, FL
Shelby Clark
Isle of the Naiads, 2023
Polymer Clay, Acrylics, Beads, 18" x 12" x 5"
Molly Duff-Clarke
Yeah...But I Wish That I Could Scrape the Sides, 2023
Ceramic, Yarn, Flocking, Velvet, 58" x 20" x 13" St. Petersburg, FL
Sean Erwin
Unless, 2024
Porcelain, Mixed Media, 33" x 12" x 15" DeLand, FL
Sheila Ferri
Retiring & Ready to Work, 2022
Wire, 24" x 14" x 14" Middletown, NY
Honrable Mention
Margaret Foy Meinhart
Glacial Bloom, 2024
Cast Porcelain, Walnut Wood, 26.5" x 26" x 2.5"
St. Petersburg, FL
Portland, OR
Johnson City, NY
Hazel Glass
The Cadence of Quiet, 2023 Paper, 7" x 6" x 1.5"
Ronald Gonzalez CHAIR, 2023
Detritus Over Steel, 5" x 4" x 4"
Terry Green
Brace Vessel, 2023
Stoneware, 7.25" x 14.25" x 1.875" Sacramento, CA
Justin Quaid Grubb
ALL-AMERICAN AND VERY DOWN TO EARTH, 2022
Ceramic, Silicon Carbide, Plywood, Wheels, AstroTurf, 20" x 6' x 6'
DeLand, FL
Brian Harper
Bunker Series: Station Mount, 2023
Ceramic, Wood, Adhesive, 15" x 14" x 14"
New Albany, IN
Seen/Loved, Fragment Series, 2024
Highlands, NC
Deneece Harrell
Custom Black Porcelain, 10.5 x 7 "x 9"
Kei Ito (Un)premeditated Inheritance, 2021 WWll-Era 20mm Practice Rounds, Artist’s Hair,Trinitite, 7.25" x 24" x 24" Baltimore, MD
Claire B Jones Oban 2, 2023
Cotton Canvas, Thread, 10.5" x 10.5" x 8" Orcas, WA
Katie Kameen
Sediment, 2022
Secondhand Plastic Objects, Steel Pins, 13 cm x 10.5 cm x 3 cm
Graniteville, SC
Tim Keenan
Bowling Green Machine, 2024
Ceramic, 12" x 14" x 6"
Santa Ana, CA
Roost, 2022
Ceramic, 14" x 10" x 12"
Gulfport, FL
Auric Field, 2024
Paper, Canvas, 36" x 36" x 4"
Casselberry, FL
Machelle Knochenhauer
Kelly Ladd
Yoonjee Kwak
Patterned Memories, 2024 Stoneware, 14.25" x 14" x 14"
Hartford, CT
Maria Lorena Lehman
Edge of Infinity, 2021
Nylon 12, 13" x 10" x 10"
Coral Gables, FL
Birmingham, AL
Wade MacDonald
An Elephant's Foot, 2024
Stoneware, Wood, Plexiglass, Acrylic Paint, Found Objects, 81" x 42" x 44"
Wade MacDonald
Lethal Lounge, 2022
Stoneware, Underglazes, Wood, 41.5" x 36" x 32" Birmingham, AL
Felipe Maldonado
Colorful Moonjars (Stacked), 2023
Highwater Brownstone, White Slip, Underglaze, Glaze, 16" x 7" x 6.5” Charlotte, NC
Sukanya Mani
The Light Illusion, 2019
Handcut Tyvek, 5' x 4' x 4'
Ballwin, MO
Takaharu Minowa
Peaceable Flowers, 2023
Ceramic, 25.2 cm x 23 cm x 9.2 cm
Tokoname-shi, Aichi-ken, JPN
Kairos, 2024
Porcelain, 4" x 11" x 5"
Weaverville, CA
Vessel of Memory, 2024
Stoneware, Porcelain, 20" x 8" x 7.5"
New Bedford, MA
Dan Molyneux
Fallon Navarro
Deborah Perlman
Denied, 2023
Mixed Media – Paper, Photo, Tape, Wire Mesh, Metal, Plastic, 20.5" x 21" x 1.5" Hollywood, FL
Karen Perry
Double Self - Portrait, 2023
Enameled Paperboard Puzzle Pieces, 21 cm x 30 cm x 14 cm
Morelia, MX
Carlos Prado
Void. Recycled Monuments Series, 2023
Stoneware / Cone 6 Oxidation, Ceramic 3D Print, 20" x 8" x 7"
Miami, FL
Jeffrey Repko Symbiotic System, 2023
Wood, Paint, 30" x 30" x 24"
Atlanta, GA
Brian Richmond
Boss Heavy Metal Pedal HM-2, 2021
Acrylic/Enamel Painting on Sculpted Paper, 2.25" x 2.5" x 5"
Chester Springs, PA
Gavin Sewell
Sun Also Rises, 2022
Mixed-Media and Found 3-D Objects on Panels, 33" x 48" x 1.5"
New York, NY
Evan and Stacey Smith
Guise, 2021
Wood, 3D Printing, Projector, Video, 82.25" x 25.5" x 18"
Saint Louis, MO
Honorable Mention
Kate Strachan
Black Swan Series, 2024
Japanese Black Clay, Wax, 12 cm x 35 cm x 24 cm
Ambler, PA
Danyang Song
Harmony, 2023
Glazed Stoneware, Underglaze, Luster, 60 cm x 30 cm x 13 cm
Jersey City, NJ
Jae-Eun Suh
House full of interaction, 2021
Wood, Acrylic Ink, Markers, 4.5" x 4.5" x 0.5"
Saint Paul, MN
Pink Cube, 2022
Cone 06 Ceramic Goo, 12" x 12" x 12"
Meadville, PA
3rd Place
Ceramic, Glaze, Silver Leaf, Aluminum, Steel, 44" x 14" x 14"
La Mesa, CA
Kate Sutter
Iren Tete Trace, 2022
Sonia Nowak-Vera
Your number one fear should be your drying up eggs on this beautiful easter sunday [sic], 2023
Porcelain, Silicone, Metal Leaf, Press on Nails, Tampon, 27" x 14" x 6" Jacksonville, FL
Amy Williams Swallowing, 2022
Stoneware, Steel Wire, 30" x 78" x 5" Orange City, IA
Emily Willis
Flower Shield, 2023
Stoneware, 22" x 12" x 5"
Chicago, IL
Seitaro Yamazaki
Fossils from the future ‘ Nike AIR JORDAN 1,' 2021
Sand, Acrylic, Digital Data, 14 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm
Meguro City, Tokyo, JPN
Installation
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by Tariq Gibran
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+ 2024 SPACE FORM
OCTOBER 5 - DECEMBER 29, 2024
Recognizing an expansive field of contemporary sculpture and the diverse practices of artists today who transform malleable materials into three dimensional artworks.