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Photos from the Racine Art Museum (November 12, 2021)

1. Pearls (Mara and Roy Superior, 2008)

2. Echinimunculus (Jennifer Maestre, 2003)

3. Temptation (Maggie Maggio, 2012)

4. Artemis’ Shot (Tara K. Daly, 1994)

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Coreglia Anteluinelli, Toscana, Italia Castelnuovo Garfagnana, Toscana, Italia Roy Superior, 2005 & 2006

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Mara Superior and Roy Superior - Aqua Marina - collaborative cabinet (at New Britain Museum of American Art)

Permanent Collection of New Britain Museum of American Art

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The Superior's collaborative cabinet "La Mer" from the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Collection was shown at the New Britain Museum of American Art in the Mara Superior's 2006 retrospective.  The Sullivan's commissioned "Aqua Marina" for the museum, in honor of that exhibition. Mara Superior's recent works will be presented in The Bachanalistas: Passions + Pleasure shown at the New York Ceramics Fair January 21 - 26, 2014

Ferrin Contemporary announces The Bacchanlistas: Passions + Pleasure. This special exhibition at the New York Ceramic Fair spotlights the seductive side of historic and modern ceramic and glass from the early 19th century to the present. Many of the objects in the exhibition, curated on site by Leslie Ferrin, will be drawn from material offered by international specialists and dealers participating in the fair. The exhibit and fair will take place January 21–26, 2014.

Ferrin explains the concept for this exhibition taking place within the fair, “Bacchanalia, the Roman festivals of Bacchus (the Greco-Roman god of wine, freedom, intoxication, and ecstasy) were attended by a secret society and became legendary. Ceramic objects were made for and used during these parties and later created to commemorate such events. Recent generations of artists have been inspired by those objects and have created their own for celebratory experiences. Decorative art and fine art worlds collide with references to feast, sexuality, and over the top pleasures.”  

As curator, Ferrin invited dealers exhibiting in the fair to bring selected objects for this special exhibition at the New York Ceramics Fair. These historic “originals” will be presented alongside related works by living artists and designers. The comparison will show how the format and styles of historic figurines, commemorative plates, celebratory tureens, jars, and vases are at the core of these artists’ contemporary art practice.  In both the contemporary and historic works, themes of eroticism, sexuality, abundance, and culinary specialties related to food and wine presentation will be explored.     

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Visiting Friends on Sunday Afternoon - stopping by on my way home from the airport ...

ROY AND MARA SUPERIOR have lived in Williamsburg, Massachusetts since the mid 70's.  They've been making and collecting art and objects, filling their home with a chronology of their lives - his sculpture and furniture, her porcelain tableware and constructed vessels, his cabinets filled with her ceramics - ledges, shelves, side tables - framed works on paper - their home is an installation and lifetime collaboration. 

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AND THEN A WALK IN THE WOODS and a rain shower -  .... I don't know if you can see this in the photo but ... in the old growth forest this afternoon, it rained and the sun was shining, and I found chanterelles and I was listening to Benjamin Carter's interview with Vipoo Srivilasa and at the end of the two hour interview, they spoke about when I met Vipoo at the Subversive Clay, 2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale Adelaide. It is a small world when you can walk through the forest in Cummington, Massachusetts and listen to a podcast by someone who is at Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Montana who is talking to someone from Thailand who lives in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia knowing that within a year, he will probably show up at Project Art in Cummington, MA. The "ands" could go on from here but I think you get the picture. Podcasts by Ben and Brian R. Jones make the world a smaller place.

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