TRADITION! (as uttered by Zero Mostel in "Fiddler on the Roof") Exhibit explores contemporary Jewish art with works by four local artists" - article/interviews in the St. Louis Jewish Light on August 8, 2012.
My piece, "Life is a Bowl of Pomegranates" was featured in the article. To read the full article/interview with Buzz Spector and the four artists, go to www.stljewishlight.com/artists
TRADITION! Exhibition - Opening Reception - July 13, 2012
This picture appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light on August 2, 2012, featuring artists Barbara Umbogy, Lauren Pressler, Sandy Kaplan and curator, Buzz Spector at the opening reception of TRADITION! on July 13, 2012. Frank Roth, who was unable to attend the reception, also participated in the show.
TRADITION! Art Show - Regional Arts Commission Gallery July 13-August 18, 2012
I stopped by the Regional Arts Commission gallery to take some pictures of my work at night without the daylight glare from the windows. Only two weeks left of the show.
There will be an article in the Jewish Light next week featuring interviews with each of the four artists and the curator. I will post the picture that appeared in this week's Jewish Light of three of the artists and curator.
I began working with clay in 1989 in the ceramics studio at Craft Alliance. I make sculptures, vessel forms and hand built platters in terra cotta which I then paint in a range of colored glazes. The frieze of figures on my vessels and in the center of my platters are women and men relating to each other, in conversation, or else dancing, while showing friendship, affection and love. In my work the figures emerge into three-dimensional space, entering just a bit into our world.
I've been making reference to Reginald Marsh and Thomas Hart Benton's work in my vessels, depicting people clustered together in "New York style" street scenes of night life from the 1930s. In more recent work, "T.O.U.C.H.-ing (Together our unity creates happiness)" and "Wall-flower," I place figures emerging from the interior to enhance the narrative of the vessel. "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou" is a sculptural piece of men and women socializing in a restaurant bar. In all of my work the individual figure and the ways of relating multiple figures express my deepest feelings toward human emotion.
For more information, contact Sandy Kaplan at sandyk@prodigy.net