The Art of Seduction

 

Anticipation, enticement, ideas, experience, response, memory.

The ART of SEDUCTION: Exquisitely Crafted Temptations, the exhibition, offers enticing visual stimulation and questions. These diverse, contemporary decorative arts objects explore the subject within the broader visual arena.

What is seductive?
These, unique, exceptional, handmade objects, offer enticements- tactilely in seductive material palettes and processes, emotionally by the attraction of their forms and frames of reference and intellectually by the power and context of their potent ideas. In ceramics, fibers, glass, jewelry forms, metals, wood, and mixed media palettes, tempting objects by thirty nine artists engage us in the experience. These unique, personal, cultural artifacts with antecedents in utility join the continuum of exquisite objects which historically mark their place, personna and time.

Howard Community College
Columbia, MD
January 12 - March 18, 2012

Excerpts from Curator's Talk

Slideshow of Selected Images from the Exhibition

Exhibition Brochure (PDF - 10MB)

Reviews
Mike Giuliano, Baltimore Sun

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk
February 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Artists

Renee Adams Julia Barello Tanya Batura Christyl Boger Kathy Buszkiewicz Jessica Calderwood Sonya Clark Kim Dickey Donald Friedlich Susan Taylor Glasgow Jill Baker Gower Virginia Griswold Chris Gustin Susan Hagen Jennifer Halvorson Julia Harrison Wendy Huhn Matt Hutton Ron Isaacs Darien Johnson

Tracy Krumm Amy Long Sharon Massey Jesse Mathes Jillian Moore Tom Muir emiko oye Catherine Winkler Rayroud Philip Renato Jon Eric Riis Amy Rueffert Richard Saja Marjorie Schick Bonnie Seeman Lin Stanionis Travis S. Townsend Norwood Viviano Gina Westergard Kai Wolter

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