Artist: Joan Lurie

Joan Lurie, NEW YORK

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 ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My ceramic work grew out of a photographic project where I assembled images from architecture, design and craft books. I became fascinated by the ceramic forms found in the craft books and their relationship to the human body. Often, the images were simply traces or imprints of the human hand. This correspondence was so fascinating to me that I began to work with clay.

Over the past 15 years, my work has focused on building structural forms in clay. I work with porcelain and porcelain paper clay. My sculptures are constructed by combining wheel-thrown forms into a shape, then adding coils of clay to the exterior, creating an armature in reverse on the outside of the form. Part of the underlying wheel-thrown form is cut away, while I continue to build out the hand built structure. Many ideas for my forms come from architecture while the inherent organic quality of the clay and my process always brings the work back to soft forms more reminiscent of biological and natural things.

After firing and glazing, the trace of Lurie’s hand is forever embedded in the work, an expression of the relationship between maker and, in her own words, the “pleasure of working with the material to discover what it can do.” Untitled (2015) is just one of Lurie’s countless explorations into porcelain and a strong example of an artist working in conjunction with the inherent material possibilities of her chosen medium. - Rebecca Pristoop

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2015 Imprecise Measures, Chashama, 300 W30th Street, NYC
• 2013 Vessels Oblique, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY
• 2011 Group Forms: The Porcelain of Joan Lurie, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

• Claybash, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey

2022

• Collectible Art Fair, Brussels Belgium, Boon Room Paris
• 24th San Angelo National Ceramics Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX

2021

• The 12th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan

2020

• Particle and Wave: Paper Clay Illuminated, curated by Peter Held, traveling exhibition, Fuller Craft Museum (Dec.- May 2021) opened ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ 2019
• The Clay Studio National, Philadelphia, PA

2017

• Gardens on Orchard, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY

2016

• Devotion/Destruction: Craft Inheritance, Dorsky Gallery, LIC, NY
• Round It Up!, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY

2015

• Art Market Hamptons, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
• Workhouse Clay National, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA

2014

• Schacht Gallery, 2-person show, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Saratoga, NY
• Art Market Hamptons, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

2013

• International Ceramics Biennale, Museum of Art, Cluj, Romania
• Art in Clay, juried by David McFadden, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Merry Go Round, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY
• 2 x 2 Small-Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial, Gallery of Art, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
• Works from Our Collections, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA

2012

• Summer Group Show, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• Scope New York, Muriel Guepin Gallery, NYC
• 2nd Annual Workhouse Clay National, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
• Contemporary Clay Biennial, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
• Winter Whites, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA

2011

• The 9th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan
• Craft USA 2011, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
• Affordable Art Fair, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Group Show, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2010

• The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited, LVMH/Parsons, Governors Island, NY
• 12th Annual Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition, Nippon Gallery, NYC
• Scope Miami, Muriel Guepin Gallery, FL
• Art Hamptons,Muriel Guepin Gallery, NY
• Group Show, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA
• Group Show, Muriel Guepin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2009

• Group Show, Shop Art, Brooklyn, NY
• Ceramica Multiplex, The International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics, The Croatian
• Ceramic Association, The City Museum of Varazdin, Croatia
• Feats of Clay XXII, Lincoln Arts & Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA
• Jersey Shore Clay National, M.T. Burton Gallery, Surf City, NJ

2008

• Craftforms 2008, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
• 17th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX
• Contemporary Clay Biennial, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO

2007

• National Juried Ceramics Exhibition, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
• Clay: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Xiem Clay Center Gallery, CA
• History in the Making, Genesee Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY
• Emerging Potters, Vessels Gallery, Boston, MA

 

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS

• Kann, Bianca. ”Joan Lurie: The Evolution of a Visionary Ceramic Artist.” Aatonau, April 5, 2023, https://aatonau.com/joan-lurie-the-evolution-of-a-visionary-ceramic-artist/
• The Herald News, “Fuller Craft Museum Presents: ‘Particle and Wave, Paper Clay Illuminated’,” November 28, 2020
• Etta Sandry, Textile Arts Center, “Devotion/Destruction Craft Inheritance at Dorsky Gallery, March 21, 2016
• Jeannine Bardo, Galleryell, “Devotion/Destruction,” February 8, 2016
• Clark, Garth, Editor, CFileonline.org, “Spotted This Week’s Ceramics in Art,” October 29, 2014
• Scozzaro, Carrie, The Pacific Northwest Inlander, “Covering Ground,” January 23, 2013, illus.
• Lea, Robyn, “Light Luxury,” Est Magazine, Issue #4, January 2012, pp. 75-77, 3 illus.
• McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, “Inside Technique, Attempts at Expression,” April 20, 2011, section G, p. 3.
• McQuaid, Cate, The Boston Globe, April 7, 2011, Arts: The Week Ahead, p. 2.
• Greene, Josh, Shagreene Design Blog, November 26, 2010.
• Weinstein, Michael A., New City, April 16-22, 1992.
• McCraken, David, Chicago Tribune, April 17, 1992, section 7, p. 62.

 

AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/TEACHING EXPERIANCE

• Artist Residency Buffalo Creek Art Center 2022
• 1st Place Prize, Contemporary Clay Biennial, The Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
• Honorable Mention, The 9th International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan
• 3rd Place Prize, 12th Annual Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition
• Studio Artist In Residence, The Museum of Arts and Design, NY, 2009-2010
• Workshop Instructor/Artist, The Museum of Arts and Design, NY, 2010
• The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited New York, LVMH/Parsons, 2009-2010 (Participating NY Artisan)

 

EDUCATION

• BFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Photography 1981
• MFA New York University and the International Center of Photography, 1987