On my way to see “Silver Garden,” at the PMA, the wonderful photography show I told you about here, I stopped in my tracks in the crafts corridor right outside the Julien Levy ramp. What’s up now is a sample of some really amazing work from the Contemporary Crafts Collection, including, and here’s the news, work by ceramic artists represented by the new Hurong Lou Gallery in Old City.
I had just spent time at Hurong Lou with the gallerist and his assistant, the artist Blazo Kovacevic, and they brought me up to speed after a fashion on the fine art clay scene. (Lou previously was Gallery director at Helen Drutt Gallery and when Drutt closed Hurong decided he needed to open a gallery of his own. His artists include many from the Drutt stable). Anyway, I’m going back to Hurong Lou today to see a new show but I want to float a bunch of images of beauties I saw at the PMA that will be a warm up to a post and a PW story I’m going to do on the new craft gallery. (top image, from PMA, is “Middle of Somewhere” 2002, glazed porcelain, by Korean-born artist Sun Koo Yuh. I had seen a similar piece at Hurong Lou.)
yuh, sun koo
I don’t know how often the PMA rotates the selection of works in this corridor but I’ve always found many happy moments here studying works that have nice interplay with each other.