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February - March 2008

Warren Mather: Urban Perspectives

Warren Mather
Copley Square, 2008
Glazed Ceramic,
21 Inches diameter

Warren Mather
Winthrop Square, 2007
Glazed Ceramic,
21 Inches diameter

Warren Mather
Milk Street, 2007
Glazed Ceramic,
21 Inches diameter

Warren Mather
Commonwealth Avenue, 2008
Glazed Ceramic,
21 Inches diameter

Warren Mather's ceramic murals are made using a process he has developed of transposing digital photographs onto silk-screens which are then printed with ceramic glaze onto wet clay, bisque fired, glazed and fired again. By piecing together photographic data Mather constructs composite horizontal, vertical and circular panoramas, which document his multiple observations made perambulating the streets of Boston. Recording what is above, in front and behind him Mather “uses the camera as an all-seeing eye that does not accept the convention of a rectangular cropped frame or narrow forward-looking single moment”. His objective is to establish a holistic, subjective impression of the urban experience, its conflicting and engulfing gestalt.

John Hatfield: Model Homes

John Hatfield
Levittown Houses, 2007 (detail)
Gouache and graphite on paper,
23 x 35 Inches

In his watercolor drawings, John Hatfield translates icons of famous house architecture into the elemental forms of Lego pieces, adding his cheeky handwritten commentary on the observations and lives of the people whose homes they were.“My interest is not necessarily the architecture itself, but the personal experiences and concepts embedded within these houses and all homes as such- the hopes, desires and ambitions that construct and shape lives. The house shelters our most basic needs: love, sex, family as well as being representative of more complex social ideas such as status, community or spirituality”.