Cheh-ae Siah enacts an unruly drama of chance, desire, risk,
failure and wishful thinking. Thrown and altered forms bur-
row into hand-built scaffolding; pinched coils link together
and colonize a slip-cast object; found shards are thrust into
prtess-molded slabs. This architecture has an appetite for
things - cheap souvenirs, precious objects, failed experiments
and figurines. Through the rhetoric of hand-crafting,
Sormin’s installation embodies the improvisation and uncer-
tainty that characterizes processes of private and public rein-
vention. Metaphorically and structurally, the work negotiates
enclosure and disclosure, porosity and density, mass and
lightness, strength and fragility, balance and imbalance, con-
struction and collapse.

Linda Sormin has exhibited nationally and internationally at

Linda Sormin
Audacious Ceramic Subversions In Cheh-Ae Siah

Ceramic Installation
March 24 - April 22, 2006

Flow Gallery (London, UK, 2006), York Quay Gallery
(Toronto, 2005), Yingko Ceramics Museum (Taipei,
Taiwan, 2005), Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, BC, 2004),
Lohin-Geduld Gallery (New York 2004), the National
Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (San Diego,
2003 and Baltimore, 2005), and the World Ceramic
Biennale (Korea, 2001). Sormin currently lives and works in
Vancouver where she teaches ceramics at Emily Carr
Institute.

The Stride Gallery is atl004 MacLeod Trail S.E., Calgary,
AB Canada T2G 2M7, wwwstride.ab.ca, stride2@telusplan-
et.net, 403.262.8507

Photos courtesy Stride Gallery

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