Revive, Remix, Respond: Contemporary Ceramic Artists and The Frick Pittsburgh

The exhibition showcases artists who are breathing new life into the ceramic medium by reinvigorating age-old motifs, processes, and techniques. Nineteen artists whose practice is informed by the past were invited to submit work that is inspired by, responds to, or relates to The Frick Pittsburgh’s collection. The selected works, all of which have distinct connections to our collection, make for an engaging installation exploring and illuminating the tensions and dualities between past and present.

The assembled artworks feel simultaneously timeless and familiar yet unexpected. The visual vocabulary borrows from the rich artistic heritage of the 2,000-year-old medium while illuminating diverse issues that range from the contemporary (environmentalism, cross cultural exchange), to the personal (memory, collecting), to the aesthetic (pattern, form, abstraction). The international selection of featured artists includes Bouke de Vries, Stephen Bowers, Paul Scott, Caroline Slotte, Chris Antemann, and Evan Hauser, among others.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website