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| Ann Agee. Mother and Daughter 2012 |
Locks Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Ann Agee. The Kitchen Sink will be on view September 4 through October 13, 2012. There will a reception for the artist on Friday, September 7, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
For her second solo exhibition at Locks Gallery, Agee designed an installation of white porcelain sculptures, creating a visual conversation that touches on feminism, craft, labor and modern family life. The installation is a continuation of the Agee Manufacturing Co.shown at the ICA, Philadelphia in 2009.
Ann Agee’s work explores the region between decorative and fine art, playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes. Her use of white porcelain quotes both the eighteenth-century English porcelain, and chinaware found in second-hand stores. The milky gloss of the glazed porcelain accentuates the beauty of the material and the hand made quality. Quoting the artist, “for the sake of the labor, and the freedom to make variations,” she will carry forth concepts and motifs that continually develop in unforeseen ways. The resulting body of work resembles a range of fantasized objects that lie between the ideas of usefulness and decoration. On the walls, Agee’s large-scale paintings on paper often function as a backdrop for her installations by depicting the space of her Brooklyn studio—a creative cacophony in which all the pieces are produced.
Agee recently created major installations at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (2012) and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, (2010). Her work has been seen in prominent clay exhibitions “Dirt on Delight,” Institute of Contemporary Art, PA (traveled to the Walker Art Center, MN) and “Conversations in Clay,” Katonah Art Museum, NY. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1992, 1989), among others. Her work is in the collections of: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The RISD Art Museum, RI; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Henry Art Museum in Seattle, WA; The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL.
For her second solo exhibition at Locks Gallery, Agee designed an installation of white porcelain sculptures, creating a visual conversation that touches on feminism, craft, labor and modern family life. The installation is a continuation of the Agee Manufacturing Co.shown at the ICA, Philadelphia in 2009.
Ann Agee’s work explores the region between decorative and fine art, playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes. Her use of white porcelain quotes both the eighteenth-century English porcelain, and chinaware found in second-hand stores. The milky gloss of the glazed porcelain accentuates the beauty of the material and the hand made quality. Quoting the artist, “for the sake of the labor, and the freedom to make variations,” she will carry forth concepts and motifs that continually develop in unforeseen ways. The resulting body of work resembles a range of fantasized objects that lie between the ideas of usefulness and decoration. On the walls, Agee’s large-scale paintings on paper often function as a backdrop for her installations by depicting the space of her Brooklyn studio—a creative cacophony in which all the pieces are produced.
Agee recently created major installations at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY (2012) and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, (2010). Her work has been seen in prominent clay exhibitions “Dirt on Delight,” Institute of Contemporary Art, PA (traveled to the Walker Art Center, MN) and “Conversations in Clay,” Katonah Art Museum, NY. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2012), The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997) and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1992, 1989), among others. Her work is in the collections of: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The RISD Art Museum, RI; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; The Henry Art Museum in Seattle, WA; The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, WI; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, FL.
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