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Provisional Measures 臨時措施, 2026, Space One Gallery, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan • 當自由不再以自身為正當理由，而是意識到自身俱有任意性和暴力性時，道德就因此開始。—埃馬紐埃爾·列維納斯 《臨時措施》是藝術家在雲森陶陶工作室駐留期間創作的36 件陶瓷作品，後來於台北市立大學展示中心展出。這些作品以常見的淚滴狀花瓣為原型，懸掛於鋁桿之上。小巧的尺寸令人聯想到芒果等長莖圓錐花序上的果實和花朵；而大尺寸則指向人類介入世界的結構，例如建築。 儘管鋁材曾在多個展覽中出現，但自《圓孔方釘》（2010）以來，它並未扮演如此重要的角色。與《手鐲》（2014、2015）類似，這些陶瓷作品懸浮於金屬絲之上。與《筒倉》（2015、2018）類似，這些陶瓷作品被掛在鉤子上，供觀眾取閱。克里斯蒂安·波爾坦斯基、西川裕子和馬克·迪·蘇維羅的懸垂陰影藝術作品對本系列作品產生了影響。保羅·克利曾說，繪畫就是一條散步的線條。因此可以說，陶瓷產業就像一架飛翔的飛機。 Morality begins when freedom, instead of being justified by itself, feels itself to be arbitrary & violent. —Emmanuel Levinas • Provisional Measures 臨時措施 is 36 ceramics created during residency at Cloud Forest Ceramics, Taipei then exhibited at Space One Gallery, University of Taipei.… [...]
2025, Cloud Forest Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan • Transition Modality 過渡情態 is three series of drawings, teapots, and tiles created by Brian Molanphy in residencies at Cloud Forest, Qing Yao 清窯, & Bei Jiao Da 北教大 (NTUE, National Taipei University of Education 國立臺北教育大學). Flowers, vases, & teapots are fluid containers –both giving form to fluid while being themselves fluid—on a small… [...]
2024, Chin Chin Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan • 南倉 South Warehouse at Chin Chin Gallery in Tainan, an exhibition of 48 tea wares, was made in Taipei and in Dallas. Taiwan’s landscape of steep mountains surrounded directly by ocean or intermediate zones of marsh or jungle is reflected in the fluid give and take, the release and retention, and the concentration and… [...]
2024, Cloud Forest Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan • Seven Star Warehouse 七星倉 , an exhibition of 39 tea wares, was primarily made at Cloud Forest Ceramics in mid-temperature polychrome stoneware & high-temperature soda glazed porcelain. Taiwan’s landscape of steep mountains surrounded directly by ocean or intermediate zones of marsh or jungle is reflected in the fluid give and take, the release… [...]
2023, Miaoli Ceramics Museum 苗栗陶瓷博物館 • One of three teapots exhibited by invitation of the Miaoli County Mountain City Art and Culture Association 苗栗縣山城藝術文化協會 2023, pinched, woodfired stoneware [...]
2023, Lee College, Houston, TX • Cameo 2023 lao mei cha at Lee College draws on artworks from the solo exhibition, lǎo měi chá 老美茶 at 純Object Gallery, in Taipei, Taiwan. 2023, porcelain with sgraffito & glaze, stoneware with glaze [...]
2023, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX • Let Them Be Left, exhibited in The Artist’s Eye, draws on artworks in the Kimbell Art Museum & its archtecture, especially Returning From a Visit by Zhu Derun 朱德潤 . “Inversnaid” by Gerard Manley Hopkins provides the title. 2023, mixed media on artist made paper, 60” x 6” [...]
Cataract Culvert, 2020, coiled & wood-fired stoneware with slip, mishima, & glaze, each group of five parts measures 70” x 26” x 14” Cataract Culvert encapsulates my sense of fluidity & constraint in a deluge. Previously I sought to capture similar themes of passage, escape, evacuation, & obstruction in Endless Plumb (Plugged) (2014) & The Quick & the Dead (2018).… [...]
lǎo měi chá 老美茶 2023, 純Object, Taipei, Taiwan lǎo měi chá 老美茶 is an American take on teaware flowing from Dallas to Taipei. The runny surfaces & forms of the teaware reflect the tea flowing within them. The watery blue & white porcelain melts both in the fabrication of clay & in the firing of the ceramic. Symbolizing resilience, resistance,… [...]
sink, stoneware with glaze 2022, Cole Arts Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX [...]
share, terra cotta with sgraffito & glaze 2022, Manises Ceramics Museum, Manises, Spain [...]
2021, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX • Silent Partner is one of the 2020-2021 Nasher Public exhibitions. The title is taken from Caterina Roma, who wrote about El arte del vacío at la Galería Artur Ramon in Barcelona: “En estas obras, los artistas presentan su particular definición del concepto de vacío, de la relación del material, la arcilla, con el espacio… [...]
2021, 蕭壠文化園區 Siāo-Lǒng Cultural Park, 佳里 Jiālǐ, 台灣 Táiwān In Coven-21 不期而癒2021, the drawings move out of beaker, bottle, box from the pot surface to the gallery wall and floor. In both cases the container or containment is paramount: the drawing contained within the arch, the arch contained within the pot or wall, and the audience surrounding the artwork in… [...]
2021, 青青藝廊 Chin Chin Gallery, 臺南 Táinán, 台灣 Táiwān beaker, bottle, box 燒杯 瓶子 盒子 offers a tripartite disruption of the binary understanding of the inside & outside of containers—containers into which we pour information, containers we use to pour out information, & containers that do both. The historical figures of garniture, albarelli, & lekythos inform the series. Artists important… [...]
2021, Cloud Forest Gallery, 台北Táiběi , 台灣Táiwān Belly Button 肚臍 indicates the relationship of the pot to the body in both the form of the pots & the orientation of the pots—both horizontal & vertical, on shelf & on wall. The belly button is a closed passageway, the remnant of open passage through the body. 2021, stoneware & porcelain, electric,… [...]
2021, 藝象空間 Art Space, Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan Sometimes I like the frames more than the paintings.—Steve Martin Nothing Definite But Definitely Something is a series of fifteen black stoneware wall tiles. The tiles are formed from square sheets of clay whose edges are broken off then reattached orthogonally to the picture plane to frame it… [...]
beaker, bottle, box, purple clay with slip & sgraffito 2020, 苗栗陶瓷博物館 Miáolì Ceramics Museum, 苗栗 Miáolì, 台灣 Táiwān beaker, bottle, box offers a tripartite disruption of the binary understanding of the inside & outside of containers—containers into which we pour information, containers we use to pour out information, & containers that do both. The historical figures of garniture, albarelli, &… [...]
Chanel bleu bol à thé, marbled whiteware with glaze • 2020, Schacht Gallery, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Saratoga, CA Juried by Mary Barringer [...]
Nothing Definite But Definitely Something, wood-fired stoneware with slip • In the 2019 fall semester, SMU Division of Art professors Barnaby Fitzgerald (painting) and Brian Molanphy (ceramics) brought their separate courses together for a collaboration to combine painting and ceramics in bas-relief. Form Follows Color focuses on the pedagogical thinking behind the task of making an image with clay, firing it into… [...]
Pilgrim’s Swarm, wood-fired stoneware, platinum luster • 2020, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA [...]
trim, polished micaceous ware with blue & white marbled slip • While the two traditional ceramic techniques employed in trim are each inextricably linked, as techniques, to one of two places—micaceous ceramics linked to New Mexico & marbled ceramics linked to Provence—the effects portray both landscapes, one just as well as the other. trim highlights the contrast, sometimes alchemical, between… [...]
Cornered Cargo, terra cotta with slip & glaze & black stoneware • Cornered Cargo is inspired by “Cargo” & “Raiment”, poems by W.S. Merwin. The first tells about paintings floating off their walls at night & the second tells about how deeply ingrained in language is our way of keeping things, including ourselves, covered. Cornered Cargo is the latest iteration in several series… [...]
Absolutely Vacuous, pinched terra cotta with white & micaceous slips & sgraffito & blue slip inlay • Absolutely Vacuous takes its title from a comment by Paul Greenhalgh about art exhibitions & from Absolutely Fabulous, a BBC sitcom that mostly ridicules the empty lives of its characters. Each of the dozen wall-mounted tiles is a lens whose exterior shifts from… [...]
B & O Wing, B & B Wing, terra cotta • “Some birds are easily discernible in representational works, while other artists abstractly interpret the bird form and spirit. The exhibition also includes paintings by Valley House founder Donald S. Vogel, whose name means bird in German.” 2019, Bird Show, Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas, TX [...]
parabole, terra cotta with slip & glaze • 2019-2021, Transversalidades en Cerámica Contemporánea, Muséo del Cantír, Argentona (Barcelona), Spain [...]
Dagwood, glazed porcelain & clay • 2019, New York Sub, University Park, TX Curated by Julia Jalowiec [...]
sink, coiled stoneware with glaze • 2019, University of Minnesota Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (NCECA) sink recalls the horizontal plumbing of Endless Plumb (Plugged), 2014. Instead of the obstructions that closed both end of that artwork, sink renders a double curve – the “punt” or “kick-up” inside a bottle that is just slightly budding toward the continuous… [...]
The Quick & the Dead is inspired by Kazim Ali & Yoshikawa Masamichi among many others. Instead of solemn solid elegiac containers preserving content, it bursts at the seams in irrational exuberance. Empty, it wears its content on its sleeve – the texture & drawing of the surface. The ubiquity of the blue & white tradition is the launching pad,… [...]
saladier, marbled low-temperature whiteware with glaze • 2018, Nouvel Orientalia, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan [...]
Pilgrim’s Swarm, wood-fired stoneware, platinum luster • 2018, Académie Internationale de la Céramique, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan [...]