Artist
Denise Pelletier(American, born 1954)American, born 1954
CultureAmerican
Titles
- For Mary
- Lake
- Vapours
Date2000–2005
PlaceSheboygan, Michigan
MediumVitreous clay and nylon monofilaments
DimensionsDimensions variable
Credit LineGarth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2007.1009.1-.1000
Not on view
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Department
Decorative Arts, Craft, and DesignSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition History"For Mary: Six Installations," John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000.
"Ex:Change Korea/Japan/USA Exhibition Series," Florida Atlantic University, Dade County Community College Galleries and Morikami Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Miami, Florida, 2002.
"Installments, Walter McConnell and Denise Pelletier," Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan, 2002.
"Vapours: STRATA: New Perspectives on Ceramics from Scandinavia and the United States," Skupturens Hus, Stockholm, 2005.
"Lake: White on White," Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; SubBasement Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, 2005.
In 2002 under the title For Mary it was shown in three site specific installations; Six Installations, John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT, 2000; Installments, Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI, 2002; and, Ex:Change: Korea/Japan/USA Exhibition Series, Florida Atlantic University, Dade County Community College Galleries, and Morikami Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Miami, FL., 2002. These showings were illustrated and discussed in Choi, Suk Jin, “World Ceramic Art: Denise Pelletier”, Ceramic Art Monthly, Seoul, South Korea, June, 2005; White on White, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, and Sub-Basement Gallery, Baltimore MD. Catalogue with essay by Jae Won Lee, 2005; Del Vecchio, Mark. “What Postmodernism is Not!”, SOFA New York 2004, Catalogue, The Seventh Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, Expressions of Culture, Chicago, 2004; Bai, Ming. Oversea Contemporary Ceramic Art Classics, Jiangxi Fine Art Publishing House, China, 2003; Brown, Glen R. “Multiplicity, Ambivalence, and Ceramic Installation Art,” Ceramics: Art and Perception International, No. 54., 2003; Ex:Change: Korea/Japan/USA, Florida International University, Miami, FL. Catalogue with essay, 2002; “In Transition: An Exchange of Culture and Creative Process”, Lizzie Zucker-Saltz; Installments: Clay Installations by Denise Pelletier and Walter McConnell, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI. Essay by Peter Barr, 2002. As Lake it was shown on White on White, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI and White on White, Sub-Basement Gallery, Baltimore, MD. As Vapours it was shown in the former Nobel Dynamite factory complex now a contemporary sculpture space, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden on STRATA: New Perspectives on Ceramics from Scandinavia and the United States, 2005. It was published an discussed in Jonsson, Love, “Keramik I Nyatt in Perspectiv”, Kunstandverk 3, Norway, August – October, 2005 and STRATA: New Perspectives on Ceramics from Scandinavia and the United States, exhibition catalogue with essays by Lisa Tamaris Becker and Backa Carin Ivarssdotter, Skulpturens Hus, Sweden, 2005
"Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 4 March - 3 June, 2012.
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