Gallery of B.C. Ceramics

1959 Cartwright St. Granville Island
Vancouver BC, Canada

(eh) 669-4645 WOH SRT

var. Both a are areata of the Hows Scotia College of
Art Design, Graeme will present his latest dynamic,

hand-built vessels, while Anne will have sculptural,
figurative pieces. Opening May &th, 7:30-9:30 pm,
until May 28th.

Throughout the summer, the Gallery Shop will be
focussing on the work of all its jurled members work.

June 15th and August 15th are the next jurying
deadlines for new Gallery work. Call the Manager,
Coralie Triance, at 669-5645 for further information.

GALLERY REVIEW

April's show , “Harmony of Opposites”, featured the
work of Lynda Chelak and Melissa Searcy, whose
works are somewhat reversals of each other, Chelak
puts colorants into her clay, or uses underglazes Ina
skillful, painterly fashion. She inlays cut, colored clay
pieces, while Searcy adheres irregular, (over)glazed
strips to the outside of her pleces. Inturn, the abstract
expressionistic wall pieces and free-standing sculp-
tural pleces of Chelak contrast nicely with Searcy's
organic, somewhat erotic, cylindrical vases, The
former work tends to being flat. while the latter is more
full-bodied.

The combination of their work displayed their particu-
lar sensibiliiies that , although opposite, were mccel-
lent. The blues and purples in Chelak’s pieces reso-
nated in Searcy's similarily glazed vases, and the
irregular edges of each others work were quite comple-
mentary,

The current show, “The Way We See It: Two Europe-
ans”, features the work of Daniel Materna and Zuzana
Vaeck. Both are from Czechoslovakia and graduates
of specialized schools in ceramics and textiles respec-
tively, and have worked and exhibited internationally.

Materna principally offered raku pieces and a few
stnaller works. Intricate , multi-faceted sculptural
vases were interesting from every side, while the
granular finished plates had a fascinating texture.
His “broken” pieces were vases and plates whose
fragments had been separately raku- or pit-fired and
reassembled to create a rich mosaic.

In contrast were Vacek's painted works that were

almost folk-art-like. Her small paintings on paper had
the same flatness of perspective as her included large
applique fabric “painting”. And skilfully she painted
festive , pastoral scenes on the whimsical old trailers
Materna created, with their TV antennas. On the oval
vases she painted moody, flowered fields that some-
times seemed surreal—a plano in afield. The square
painted plates were good backdrops to spifly cadillac
and trailers.

Between the “two Europeans”, a rich artistic direction
was revealed.

Daniel Materna * Zuzana Vacek