Zemer Peled: After the Bloom

JANUARY 19, 2020 - MARCH 9, 2020

Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH

I’m so excited to announce that my upcoming workshop at Joali Maldives was featured in Forbes! I will be leading both paper and clay workshops for Joali resort guests over the course of two weeks from December 23rd to January 6th. Through the workshops, a paper and clay artworks will be created inspired by the Maldives coral reefs. Families will be able to join me at the Joali Art Studio during the day to learn about reefs in the Maldives and create a unique paper/clay artwork to take home. 

Joali is beginning its series of visiting-artist-run workshops.

This series will begin with a two-week program by Zemer Peled, the creator of the spa-based coral sculpture, who is known for her porcelain artworks inspired by natural forms. From December 23rd to January 6th, the artist will be leading paper and clay workshops for guests on the island. You’ll be able to join the artist in the Joali Studio each day to gain insight into the Maldivian coral reefs and create your own paper and clay artworks to take home with you at the end of your stay. You’ll look at the colors and shapes found within the reef while experimenting with different ways of working with the materials, from moulding the clay to paper folding and painting.

Giving insight into her work for Joali, Peled explains: “My sculpture, Maldives Vibes, was inspired by the rich underwater world of the Maldives coral reefs. It is primarily white in color to symbolize the coral bleaching that has affected the Maldives, but the striking colors that embellish the sculpture serve as both a memory of the vibrant coral reef and encouragement for its future protection. Over the course of two weeks, participants of my workshop on Joali will create their own paper and clay sculptures inspired by the Maldives coral reefs.”

Joali’s general manager, Steven Phillips, then elaborates on the resort’s overall plans: “We want some of the same artists who created work for the island to come back for two weeks to three months to host workshops in the island’s studio. I want them to use interesting mediums like painting on silk or clay. We’re putting a kiln in for Zemer, so she can do ceramics with the guests, then we’ll keep the kiln here. At the same time, I’m asking the artists who come over to leave an artwork behind, so we’ll get a new piece of artwork from each set of workshops we host.”

Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay presents recent additions to Fuller Craft’s ceramic collection. Exhibited works represent a range of processes and conceptual approaches in clay, from Cheryl Ann Thomas’s slumped, coiled sculpture to Jun Kaneko’s painterly “dango” to Steven Young Lee’s deconstructed pot. Figuration also comes into play, with strong examples by Patti Warashina, Akio Takamori, and Tip Toland. Fuller Craft Museum is proud to shine a light on the clay triumphs of these renowned ceramicists while proudly displaying the institution’s recent collecting achievements.

Over the course of the weekend, students will learn how to create a small sculpture using porcelain fragments in various shapes and sizes.

You can register online using the link below:

https://www.zemerpeled.com/shop/studio-workshop-december

From raw textures to meticulous details, to glazes bursting with color, the works in Cool Clay represent one of the most exciting and expansive fields of contemporary art. This exhibition highlights a selection of notable acquisitions that strengthen the Crocker Art Museum’s ceramics holdings in both diversity and scope, the majority by artists not previously represented in the permanent collection. These include influential figures like Rudy Autio, Jun Kaneko, Tony Marsh, Edwin Scheier, Nancy Selvin, and Akio Takamori, as well as more recent leaders like Peter Olson, Zemer Peled, Brian Rochefort, and Dirk Staschke. Although the artists pursue a great variety of approaches and techniques, each embraces the experimental and playful sensibility this versatile medium engenders. Spanning six decades of studio practice, this exhibition celebrates the ground-breaking achievements of 20th-century ceramists as well as those who today continue to reimagine the possibilities of working in clay.

The exhibit has been featured in Art Daily.

Crocker Art Museum

216 O Street

Sacramento, CA 95814

https://www.crockerart.org/

From Hélène Huret, director of the Fondation Bernardaud and exhibition curator and Joséphine Le Foll, author of the catalogue and art historian specializing in the floral painting genre and Renaissance art:

“Confined for centuries to vase bodies and plate rims, flowers are breaking out from the decorative arts to enrich contemporary art. The Fondation Bernardaud is presenting seventeen international artists, inspired by the floral theme, that have elected to work in ceramics, most of whom have never exhibited in France. The broad spectrum of ideas expressed in these pieces demonstrates that this ancient, timeless theme has an amazing ability to regenerate itself.” (from the Bernardaud exhibition page)

27 av. albert Thomas
Limoges, France

Art Miami
December 5-10, 2017
www.artmiami.com

London Art Fair
January 17-21, 2018
www.londonartfair.co.uk

COLLECT
February 22-25, 2018
London Saatchi Gallery
www.craftscouncil.org.uk/ 

“Inviting fifty-seven artists to comment on Sabbath—the day of rest—gives the diverse group an opportunity to examine the depth of the fourth commandment, its influences, and its universality. A pillar of many religions and a staple of the modern workweek, the ideas in the Sabbath are integral to how time is viewed.” (from thecjm.org)

The Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

“From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics surveys the rich continuing history of California, Oregon, and Washington artists working in a wide variety of aesthetics, scale, and conceptual styles. The exhibition provides a survey of iconic works from the Museum’s collection beginning in the 1950s, to work created in today’s dynamic cultural and artistic landscape, capturing the spirit and innovations synonymous with West Coast art over the last six decades.” (from everson.org)

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison Street
Syracuse, NY 13202

“Cassandra C. Jones, Todd Pavlisko, Zemer Peled, and Rusty Scruby all employ techniques of comprisal, forming careful arrangements that appear effortless from afar. Each artist awakens a different aspect of our perspectives: the physical contradictions within Peled’s sculptures... Every piece begs a second, closer look, and the audience is rewarded by investigation—the work transforms under examination.” (from abigailogilvy.com)

PALM SPRINGS FINE ART FAIR FEBRUARY 16 - 19, 2017
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Palm Springs Convention Center
227 N Avenida Caballeros
Palm Springs CA 92262
www.art-palmsprings.com

Delighted to exhibit in a group show Form Over Function: Ceramic Sculptures by Andrew Casto, Steve n Young Lee, Jeffry Mitchell, Zemer Peled, Kim Simonsson and Dirk Staschke, courtesy of Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle.

Opening reception on Saturday, March 4th, 4 – 7 pm. 
Show dates: MARCH 4 - APRIL 8, 2017

Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ | King's Road
London | SW3 4RY

LONDON ART FAIR
JANUARY 17 - 22, 2017
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street
London | N1 0QH
www.londonartfair.co.uk

COLLECT
FEBRUARY 2 - 6, 2017 
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ | King's Road
London | SW3 4RY
www.craftscouncil.org.uk

PALM SPRINGS FINE ART FAIR
FEBRUARY 16 - 19, 2017
Palm Springs Convention Center
227 N Avenida Caballeros
Palm Springs CA 92262
www.art-palmsprings.com

Mark Moore Gallery
Opening Reception: September 10, 6-8 PM
On View: September 10 – October 29, 2016

Mark Moore Gallery is proud to present Nomad, by Israeli born artist Zemer Peled. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.  Featuring large-scale sculptures and smaller objects, the exhibition highlights Peled’s labor-intensive process that bridges narrative and formalist elements.  Peled utilizes a process of creation and destruction to make sculptures consisting of thousands of handcrafted porcelain shards resulting in works that can be read in relation to art historical tradition, outsider art, and natural phenomena.

The sculpture’s narrative impulses lean to encounters with the otherworldly—like complex topiaries marking a not-so-distant land--yet they remain distinctly tied to earth’s patterns. This conflation of the foreign and familiar creates a frenzied dislocation in the work. Inspired by migratory habits of birds, a sweep of feathers, and cycles of change, the works spiral outwardly in rhythmic patterns, interpreting not only the dynamism of nature, but also the startling strangeness of a life lived in transition.  

Using white and colored porcelains, Peled transforms sharp slivers of porcelain into feathers, petals, leaves, and spines that describe objects of unknowable origins: seductive but untrustworthy. The forms are complexly ordered from the inside out, often bulging or spilling over with textures both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one's breath might break it. In others, Peled's fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form - offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality. The forms are never static; the visual dance of sharp ceramic parts conveys a sense of constant movement. Like a murmuration of starlings, the sculptures appear to shift shapes as you move around them, an identity becoming and unbecoming in front of you.

The act of making for Peled is a feat of endurance, improvisation, and adaptation with the aim to embody a fleeting but fundamental feeling of mystery. The construction of her sculpture parallels negotiations any outsider makes in encountering a new world as they delicately construct a self that is both adaptable and resilient.

Mark Moore Gallery
5790 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
T. 310.453.3031   
F. 310.453.3831
www.markmooregallery.com
 

NYC:
Lluis Barba: Travellers In Time Young Masters: Focus On New Work
November 4–22, 2015
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Site/109 | 109 Norfolk Street | Les | New York NY | 10002 | USA
RSVP Private View: Thursday 5 November, 6–9 Pm

Find more details here:
https://youngmastersartprize.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/young-masters-at-collect-focus-on-zemer-peled/