Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo by Annabeth Rosen. Courtesy the artist.
Daily (except Wednesdays), Oct 1--31, 2019 | 11am–5pm
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public; The CJM Shop hours are 11am–5pm; open daily (except Wednesdays). Call 415.655.7881 for more information.
HEO Ceramics is the Los Angeles–based studio of artist and designer Karen Tong. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees and a former resident on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico where she lived and worked for five years, Tong’s aesthetic often joins together seemingly incongruous worlds. Equally comfortable drawing inspiration from Bauhaus architecture, Pee-Wee Herman pop, Southeast Asian design, and Southwestern desert forms, Tong’s work offers an unlikely and unique perspective.
Beginning in August and coinciding with Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped, The CJM Shop will highlight the breadth of ceramics and pottery craft. Every month, The Shop will showcase a new Bay Area artisan whose work will be available for sale. Members receive a 10% discount.
This exhibition is the first major survey of Annabeth Rosen (b. 1957 Brooklyn, NY), Robert Arneson Chair at UC Davis, and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.
For over two decades, Annabeth Rosen has interrogated the medium of ceramics in the context of contemporary art. Featuring ceramics and works on paper from over twenty years, this groundbreaking exhibition examines how Rosen’s work radically defies the limits of her primary medium, pushing it beyond spectacle and into conversations about contemporary painting, feminist theory, endurance-based performance, and conceptual art.
Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2017. Photo by Annabeth Rosen. Courtesy the artist.