Photography and Ceramics Public Exhibition Opening

Please join us for a Public Opening celebrating the pottery by Mark Hewitt and photography by Alexandra de Steiguer. Enjoy wine, art, and conversation. Mark Hewitt will be present.

Saturday, 4 February 2016
3:00 – 6:00 PM
240 Newbury Street, 3rd floor

"A Debt to Nature Due"
Photographs by Alexandra de Steiguer

"500 Percent"
Pottery by Mark Hewitt

Alexandra de Steiguer has been photographing the Isles of Shoals in winter for the past twenty years. Closing up her tiny, solar-powered home in the woods of New Hampshire, she moves nine miles off the coast and onto a small group of rocky islands in the stormy North Atlantic. There, as the winter caretaker, she is the island’s sole resident for five months. Her images pay tribute to the wild elements that claim the Isles’ shores and reflect connections within the natural world, and the transitory and humbling nature of our residence in it. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout New England and is included in the permanent collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. She is a two-time artist fellow of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Alex creates her images using medium-format film and personally hand-prints each image in her traditional darkroom. Her photographs were recently featured in the exhibition "American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals," co-organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory.

Mark Hewitt has been making distinctive functional pottery in North Carolina since 1983. He fused what he learned in his native England as an apprentice to pioneering potter, Michael Cardew, with the ceramic traditions of the American South, bending those aesthetics into an elegant contemporary style. He uses local clays and glaze materials, and fires his pots in a large wood-burning kiln. His recent work reassesses aspects of industrial ceramics, the production of which is most familiar to him, as his father and grandfather were directors of Spode, the fine china manufacturer. Hewitt was featured on the Origins episode of the PBS television series “Craft in America” in 2009, and with Nancy Sweezy co-curated and wrote an accompanying book for the 2005 exhibition "The Potter’s Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery" at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. He was the 2014 Voulkos Fellow at the Archie Bray Institute in Helena, Montana, a finalist for the 2015 American Craft Council/Balvenie Rare Craft Award, a 2015 United States Artist (USA) Fellow, and is President of the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove. His works are featured in numerous museum collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.

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