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 Pelham, NY - Pelham Art Center announces its annual artisan exhibit Home Sweet Home Sale and Exhibit featuring an intimate arrangement of sculptural objects, artwork and jewelry by various working artists throughout New York and across the US.
Home Sweet Home is a contemporary look at traditional craft. In the Art Center’s main gallery space, Christine Milo, Gallery and Program Manager, presents an eclectic mix of modern craftwork. Leigh Taylor Mickelson of Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY, has curated a ceramic segment exhibiting work that simultaneously defends and challenges the title Home Sweet Home. All work is for sale and includes a range of affordable items.
Home Sweet Home is an exploration of goods and objects that remind us of the comforts and discomforts of home. Familiar domestic items are unexpectedly transformed into works of art through innovative and intimate studio based art-making. Traditional applied crafts such as wood work, metal work, weaving, pottery and glass art create a familiarity that is challenged through the use of unconventional materials, unusual techniques and fantastical imagery. Inspired by domestic affections, viewers are transported to an interior of strange and lovely good and objects.
In the Art Center’s new gallery Mickelson brings together a collection of ceramic work established on the concept of home. Functional potters explore the comforts of daily ritual and meal-sharing, reinforcing our awareness of human interaction and introspection. Figurative sculptures evoke family memories, both good and bad, and confront the challenges we face as humans while representational objects bring to mind our daily habits and the endless rituals of home maintenance.
Exhibiting artists include Michael J. Brolly, Pam Brown, Sean Campbell, Jupi T. Das, Scott Goodman, Jennifer Maestre, Elizabeth McGarry, Diana K. Moore, Marjorie Morrow, Debora Muhl, Kevin J. O’Dwyer, Pam Older, Robert Perucci, Kevin Peterson, Tomas Savrda, Nathan Vincent and Judith Weber.
Ceramic exhibiting artists include Dalia Berman, Andrew Coombs, Julie Elkins, Shanna Fliegel, Heather Houston, Matthew Hyleck, Natalie Kase, Reena Kashyap, Matt Long, Janis Mars, Marlene Parillo, Brenda Quinn, Marilyn Richeda, Jennifer Rogers, Andy Shaw and Michelle Tinner.
Christine Milo
The Art Center’s new Gallery and Public Program manager since summer 2009, Ms. Milo previously was the Director of Third Rail Studio, an alternative art exhibition space in New Rochelle, NY, which operated for four years and closed in mid-2009. Ms. Milo received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Sculpture. A metal fabricator, she has worked at Argos Art Casting in Brewster, NY and was an art handler at Neuberger Museum and Hudson River Museum.
Leigh Taylor Mickelson
Leigh Taylor Mickelson, is the Programs Director at Clay Art Center, where she is also an artist member. In 2006, she moved to NY from Baltimore, MD where she was the Exhibitions Director for Baltimore Clayworks for 9 years. In 1995, she received her Masters in Fine Arts, Ceramic Sculpture from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts. She has taught ceramics and workshops at Baltimore Clayworks, Catonsville Community College and various art centers on the east coast. She exhibits her work at various galleries across the nation. She received a 2003 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and most recently, her work was showcased in an article in the March 2005 issue of Ceramics Monthly.
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