#waltermcconnell

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[luchoyyo]

#Chinamania exposition of #WalterMcConnell refers to his ceramic assemblages as #stupas due to their simple conical forms. Stupas, which originated in India and spread throughout the #Buddhist world, are freestanding structures made to hold holy texts or remains of saints. McConnell’s stupas elevate mundane objects that have been endlessly replicated for #popular consumption. By comparing his extravagant piles of #kitsch to a #sacred structure, McConnell asks us to think about the meaning of our own “acquisitional urges” and the desire to accumulate. 👁 #art #sculpture #saam #kitschart (en Smithsonian American Art Museum - SAAM) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDi_mUD_vh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n2wa68udsefo

[bernardtan]

compartmentalise. #WalterMcConnell #peacockroomremix #freersackler #chinamania (at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries)

[bernardtan]

a.theory.of.everything. #WalterMcConnell #freersackler #peacockroomremix #chinamania (at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries)

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WALTER McCONNELL

Friday, February 17, 2017, 6:30pm Le vendredi 17 février à 18h30

Concordia University Fine Arts
 Visual Arts Building VA 114
 1395 René Lévesque Ouest, Montreal

www.finearts.concordia.ca

Admission for all Conversations in Contemporary Art events is FREE and open to the general public. Seating is first come, first serve. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. The lectures will be held in English.

Tous les événements du programme Conversation in Contemporary Art sont gratuits et ouverts au public. Les sièges sont assignés selon le principe du premier arrivé, premier servi. Les portes ouvrent à 18h00. Les conférences se dérouleront en anglais.

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Walter McConnell received his BFA from The University of Connecticut in 1974 and his MFA in Ceramic Art from Alfred University in 1986. Well known for his installations of moist clay and towering assemblages of cast porcelain, he is the recipient of grants from, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. McConnell has exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, the Daum Museum, the CU Art Museum and recently at the Henan Museum in Zhengzhou, China. Essays and reviews on McConnell’s work have appeared in Sculpture Magazine, World Sculpture News, The New Art Examiner, Ceramics: Art and Perception, The New York Times and The Washington Post. McConnell is currently Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. He is represented by Cross Mackenzie Gallery in Washington DC.

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