Honoring Karen Johnson Boyd: Contemporary Clay

This show offers a dual perspective for understanding Mrs. Boyd’s interest in contemporary ceramics. There is a sampling of work that she found compelling and chose to live with. In addition, large portions of The Nude in Clay and The Nude in Clay II—two exhibitions she curated for Perimeter Gallery in the 1990s that traveled to RAM’s Wustum Museum—are assembled. Focused on figurative works, these exhibitions reflected contemporary interpretations of an enduring subject matter. Mrs. Boyd chose artists who blended ancient and modern sources; emphasized form, structure, and surface; and considered historical, social, and cultural attitudes about the human body.  

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.