We are delighted to invite you to Welcome to Chinatown’s Winter Ceramic Show and Sale this holiday season!
Hours and events:
Opening Reception: Fri, Dec 8 (7-9pm)
Show and Sale: Sat, Dec 9 (11am-7pm) + Dec 10 (11am-4pm)
Chinatown has long been a hub of cultural exchange, and our ceramic show and sale aims to celebrate this by highlighting local ceramic artists who draw inspiration from the rich history and heritage of ceramics, incorporating elements that pay homage to the craftsmanship that has shaped this neighborhood.
From functional pieces that showcase both form and function to decorative items that capture the essence of Chinatown's cultural tapestry, there will be a diverse range of ceramics on display, each telling a unique story.
All works will be available for sale, and the show and sale will be completely artist-and-volunteer run. Meet our community of artists and see the show for the first time at our opening reception with drinks, on Friday, December 8, 7-9pm.
RSVP TO JOIN OUR OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
MEET THE ARTISTS:
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Alana is a multidisciplinary artist based in Flushing, Queens. They work in ceramics, book arts, and medium format film photography exploring memory, identity, and post-colonialism inspired by their multicultural identity and family's refugee experience. They studied at Parsons and Eugene Lang at The New School before completing a BA in political science at Emory University.
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Chan Lin is a Chinese-American artist from Fujian, Florida, and now NYC. She has been playing in clay since 2018 and is passionate about ceramics as alchemy of the elements, as artifacts of time, and as vessels of care. One of her greatest joys is serving home-cooked meals on tableware she's made.
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Emily B. Yang is a ceramic and block print artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She researches how Chinese immigrants have adapted existing symbols and invented new ones over time to tell stories of their new contexts. In her artistic practice, she invokes speculative and feminist interpretations of Confucian ideals and ancestor worship in her ceramic and block print work. She is a graduate of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a faculty member at the Parsons School of Design.
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My name is Gabrielle [she/they], based out of Lenapehoking / NYC. I’ve been practicing the craft of ceramics — both wheel-throwing and handbuilding — since 2018, & loving it more each day. I am dedicated to the practices of abolition & creation, justice, healing, & restoration across my life. As an overflow of that work, my pottery is an ongoing exercise in embodying those values & finding ways to build communities of generosity through clay.
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Gary is a queer Vietnamese American ceramics artist from Los Angeles now living in Queens. His journey with ceramics started with the goal of creating the perfect plant pot and now includes raunchy mugs, functional wares, and other wheel thrown forms. He teaches at multiple studios around the city and his favorite things about teaching ceramics are building community and providing new potters a welcoming environment to learn and explore.
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Josephine Zhu is a ceramics artist born & raised in Brooklyn, NYC who pays homage to her Chinese American heritage by utilizing patterns and shapes that evoke East Asian influences. Through her art, she hopes to inspire those who wish to celebrate their own roots, as well as those who seek ways to incorporate subtle beauty into their own everyday surroundings.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, Joyce loves to create and work with different mediums of art. They’re inspired by a lot of traditional Chinese artworks. She has been creating ceramics for over a year and a half. They use a number of methods to create items ranging from decorative vases to small trinket dishes! She just wants to live, laugh, and love!
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Swingtoppers is my eco-friendly ceramic/bottle art project born out of a commitment to sustainability, inspired during the peak of the pandemic while I was stuck in Indonesia. Witnessing a community using imported glass bottles for their homemade wines and kombuchas, I sought a more sustainable alternative to reduce the carbon footprint. The idea sparked when I discovered a vintage Dutch glass bottle with a swing-top wire mechanism, and I realized I could reproduce the ceramic top and mechanism to encourage the reuse of wine bottles that would otherwise be discarded. Upon returning to NYC, I expanded the project to include a universal bottle-stopper version for wine bottles and mini spice spoons for small glass jars, aiming to share this passion project with a community that values both beauty and sustainability.
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Hi, I'm Marilyn! I took my first pottery class a couple years ago and since then it has been my creative outlet and something very meditative for me. I enjoy experimenting with different shapes and exploring how they play with light and shadow. So far, this has meant hand building lots of wavy objects and candleholders, but every time I’m in the studio I try to test a new idea.
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Brooklyn-based Sabrina Siu is a multidimensional designer working in the intersection of food and art. Seeking to bring joy to functional interiors, Sabrina combined her passion for organic structures and design to form sooosabs, a play on her name and her works.
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I am a first-generation NY transplant from China, having spent most of my life living in Shanghai, Boston, and Tokyo before settling in the city. For my ceramic arts, I draw inspiration from my Chinese-Japanese roots, as well as a love for animals and nature. I find beauty in the self-contradictory properties inherent to ceramics as a medium - its fragility and its timelessness; the scientific precision it requires in its process and the inevitable unpredictability and occasional imperfection in its outcome. I hope you enjoy your 'ichigo-ichie' with my pieces, as each piece is unique and unreplicable - a "once in a lifetime" encounter.
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XY Zhou use painting, ceramics, sculpture, and writing to thoroughly interrogate themself the people around them. They are interested in how our heritage is intertwined with our contemporary lives. XY's studio practice seeks to understand and represent the “truth,” in all its seriousness and its whimsy. XY is part of an emerging art collective, the Executable Society, that believes in living and loving and doing. They want to know everything and to live forever.