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July 3-5th: 2009 International Ceramics Festival at Aberystwyth, Wales. Invited Demonstrator

Contemporary Monsters - Catalogue Coming Soon!
Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, USA

Guest Curated by Edith Garcia
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Participating Artists: Wesley Anderegg, Tom Bartel, Cynthia Consentino, John de Fazio, Edith Garcia, Arthur Gonzalez and Michael Lucero.

Somber, dark and dreamlike: Contemporary Monsters comprises of artists dealing with the reality of the human animal, submerging us into our every day animals or our monstrous selves, the hidden inner beings that we repress in order to become part of civilized society, creatures that we encounter each and everyday in art, TV, literature, our memories, even as we walk through the streets or most disturbingly in the mirror, work that is influenced by everyday life as well as by growing up in a society that uses the hybridization of humans throughout its history.

The exhibition will feature works by artist that work within the realm of the surreal, yet each of their works had a unique sensibility. Arthur Gonzalez's work has been described as snapshots of humanities dark and somber moments dripping with despair nailed unto gallery walls. Michael Lucero's works takes iconogpahic images of various cultures found in thrift stores and discarded objects on the streets and melts them together to create a new breed of humanity. All these artists translate everyday monsters into sublime sculptural works. Each artwork from these artists breathe a different voice and generate strong inner reactions in a overwhelming physical manner.

Grouping these artist together you see a hint of those inner
beings within us and translate those inner beast into surrealistic sculptural works. All these artists have a unique approach towards the context yet each ones work is unique and is able to tell
is story in its own unique voice. Contemporary Monsters at the Northern Clay Center will allow a larger audience to explore these figurative and surreal nature of clay They would be able to engage within it in a more physical and concept manner.

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