Ceramic fine art

Fenella Elms studio freestanding porcelain sculpture.

Specializing in Japanese fine art for over forty years, Joan B Mirviss LTD features Japanese screens and scrolls, woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), and most prominently, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics at its Madison Avenue gallery. Joan B Mirviss LTD continues to bring audiences in New York, around the country and abroad, the very best in Japanese fine art, featuring solo and collaborative shows by important ceramists and thematic exhibitions of paintings, screens, prints and ceramics…

Since we last visited with artist Brett Kern (previously), the West Virginia-based ceramicist has continued to produce new models of his ingenious inflatable toy dinosaur sculptures. Kern has added “baby” versions of Plesiosaurus, Carnotaurus, and T-rex to his lineup, and earlier this year released a few pieces in gold glaze that were made available for auction. You can see more in his Etsy shop, and he shares tons of process videos and photos on Facebook. More

A monumental wall installation Axis is a deconstruction of the surface of an Owen Jones depiction of the pattern on a Chinese decorative vase in his well known 1866 text "Examples of Chinese Ornament". AXIS explores cultural fusion through inherited and appropriated language of ornament.

Blue Spiral 1 - Art Gallery in the heart of Downtown Asheville. Representing over 100 contemporary artists + the estate of turn of the century modernist Will Henry Stevens (1889-1949).

The act of touching is intimately connected to the artistic process of Dan Stockholm. This is exemplified in his piece called By Hand, a site-specific installation that features a collection of red clay bricks that each have impressions of his cupped hands.