Themes - Structure and Strata

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The imagery of structure, both natural and manmade, characterizes this grouping. The artworks convey a range of expressions from the playful teapot by Dan Anderson to Raymon Elozua's somber landscape of decay. These realistic depictions of industrial environments complement architectonic works such as William Daley's geometric vessel and Robert Sieminski's stacked sculpture. The process of building-elementary structure-is seen in Rina Peleg's basket weaving or Philip Cornelius' unconventional teapot.

Babs Haenen's vessel alludes to biological structure, resembling cellular growth, as does Burton Isenstein's Capital, which could be a core sample of epidermis as well as roadbed. The geological structure of the earth with its layers of soil and rock are commingled with manmade debris in Janet Neuwalder's and Len Eichler's works that recall the strata of a landfill or an archaeological dig. Also revealing of strata, Robert Sperry and Claudi Casanovas have created the effects of erosion on the earth in their plates of distressed clays, slips, and glazes.

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