The Curated Object

Exhibitions Brockton. FOLDED LIGHT, FOLDED SHADOW: Paper Reliefs by Yuko Nishimura. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

Yuko Nishimura
Stir
Paper

FOLDED LIGHT, FOLDED SHADOW: Paper Reliefs by Yuko Nishimura
May 3, 2008 – July 27, 2008

Using her skilled fingers as her tools, emerging Japanese artist Nishimura Yuko transforms large, crisp single white sheets of a special handmade paper known as kyukushi into complex geometric wall reliefs. The freedom with which Yuko Nishimura creates a folded straight or curved line, and subsequently hundreds of them to complete an image, with no template other than her conceptual vision of the work, reveals the poet and the musician that inhabits her. This exhibition, curated by William T. Thrasher, will be her first solo Museum exhibition in the United States.

For more information please contact: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. Gina Kamentsky: Mechanical Confections. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

Gina Kamentsky
Go Go Chicken
Found metal

Gina Kamentsky: Mechanical Confections
February 2 – November 9, 2008

Gina Kamentsky, sculptor, animator, designer and teacher, has spent most of her life creating objects and media for the amusement of children and adults. During the 90s in her career as a toy and game inventor, she developed a worldwide reputation creating products for companies including Mattel, Milton Bradley, Fisher Price and Parker Brothers. In this exhibition, Kamentsky combines fantasy and reality in one of a kind mechanical toys and kinetic sculptures.

For more information please visit: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. Arboreal Anatomy: Sculpture by Wendy Wahl. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

Wendy Wahl
Paper

Arboreal Anatomy: Sculpture by Wendy Wahl
May 17 – September 21, 2008

Rhode Island based artist Wendy Wahl will create an installation constructed  from discarded and deconstructed encyclopedias in Fuller Craft's Lampos Gallery.

As Wahl writes, “Arboreal Anatomy is  the third iteration in a series of work that considers the associations between the tree of life and the tree of knowledge. I am describing  the relationship of our natural and cultural realms in an attempt  to understand the sources and structures that bind us together. By using familiar materials of learning, this exhibition addresses  a set of ideas including accessibility and accumulation. Each installation has unique considerations and challenges that allow for an unexpected experience. Each installation [also] explores dimension and perspective through the physical experience of the work. Through a process of altering perception, we are encouraged to challenge our assumptions about our surroundings.  I am questioning the boundaries of what is seen; the act of observation changes what is observed.  I hope the work will resonate with the viewer in ways that suggest fundamental and even ancient rhythms of growth, renewal and transformation.

A journal entry from Ralph Waldo Emerson dated November 2, 1833 clearly says the unsayable:

“Nature is a language, and every new fact that we learn is a new
word; but rightly seen, taken all together, it is not merely a language, but the language put together into a most significant and universal book. I wish to learn the language, not that I may learn a new set of nouns and verbs, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.”   


For more information please visit: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick. The Fuller Museum of Art. The Curated Object

Marjorie Schick
In Henri's Garden a
Painted wood, painted paper on wood, canvas, metal

Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick
May 17 – September 21, 2008

For decades, Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering force in the craft field. Her vibrant, energetic pieces break through traditional barriers of form, texture and color while sparking the human imagination. Sculpture Transformed incorporates 67 “body sculpture” objects that exemplify 40 years of Schick’s experimentation with form, texture, and color. Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick and its tour are organized by International Arts and Artists, Washington, DC in cooperation with the curator, Tacey A. Rosolowski, and Marjorie Schick.

For more information please visit: The Fuller Museum of Art
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. Peripheral Visions: Metal Works by James Reynolds. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

James Reynolds
Cyclops (detail)
meta

Peripheral Visions: Metal Works by James Reynolds
November 3, 2007 - April 20, 2008

Artist James Reynolds bridges the gap between public and private art with his low-relief metal panels. Creating work for both corporate commissions and private collections Reynolds combines industrial design sense with artistic vision in intriguing narrative panels. His multi-paneled installations tell stories of places and events frozen in time that reveal the complexity
of the human condition.

For more information please visit: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

Jamie Bennett
Blue Mosaic 9 Neckpiece
Enamel, copper, gold

Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett
January 19 - May 4, 2008

Fuller Craft Museum is proud to present a first-ever retrospective of works by one of the most important enamellists today in Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett. This exhibition explores the artist’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Curated by Jeannine Falino, former Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edge of the Sublime will be on view at Fuller Craft Museum before traveling to museums nationwide through 2010.

For more information please visit: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. The Machinery of Heaven: Glass Sculpture by Steven Easton. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

Steven Easton
Green Doorway #2
Kiln cast glass 

The Machinery of Heaven: Glass Sculpture by Steven Easton
May 17 – September 21, 2008

Glass artist Steven Easton will use Fuller Craft's Merton Tarlow gallery as an environment to explore his ideas about portraits, classical antiquity, religion, science and the natural world. This exhibition has challenged Easton to take his ideas–which up to this point have been manifested in individual objects—to a larger, more inclusive, and ultimately more compelling scope and scale. As Easton explains, “Nature and its beauty is the foundation of my work – energy and matter, in myriad forms, whirl in a complicated dance that is a celebration of life. Celestial bodies, moving inexorably through the heavens, hum in rhythm with the beating of our own hearts. Everything is connected and has meaning. This belief is infinitely reassuring as we humans move through time.”
                      
For more information please visit: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina      
   

Exhibitions Brockton. Marjorie Durko Puryear: Between the Lines… Woven Notes and Memorabilia. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

Marjorie Durko Puryear
Ancestry. Address Book 1 (detail)
Mixed fibers
Photo: David Carras

Marjorie Durko Puryear: Between the Lines… Woven Notes and Memorabilia
April 5, 2008 – July 20, 2008

Using old handwritten documents, including diaries, letters, personal address books, and business ledgers, textile artist and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Professor Marjorie Durko Puryear creates narrative wall works, using digital design and electronic jacquard weaving techniques. As she describes her work: "I am inspired by cast-offs of ordinary importance. My intention is to honor the simplicity of these written records, their meaning blurred by time, and find beauty in ordinary parts of everyday life."

For more information please visit: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina

Exhibitions Brockton. Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970-2005. The Fuller Craft Museum. The Curated Object

William Hunter
The River - Morning Light
Palo Santo
Fuller Craft Museum Collection

Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970-2005
January 19 - May 4, 2008

The first retrospective of American artist William Hunter, Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970–2005, traces the development of Hunter’s work during a period of dramatic growth with 30 pieces borrowed from public and private collections throughout the country. The exhibition demonstrates Hunter’s development as a craftsman over three decades as his work progressed from utilitarian objects to exquisite decorative forms in rare and exotic woods. This exhibition has been organized by the Long Beach Museum of Art and curated by Kevin Wallace.

For more information please contact: The Fuller Craft Museum
-Joanne Molina