Tag: art and design

David Gilhooly in ‘Craft Front and Center’ at the Museum of Art and Design

Whether they crown an ice cream Sunday or nestle between burger buns, late sculptor David Gilhooly’s recurring ceramic frogs humorously disrupt classic dishes.  A member of the California-based Funk Ceramic Movement, Gilhooly embraced the grotesque while picturing foods that should be tempting.  Here, a tower of bagels and donuts along with an about-to-topple coffee cup are delivered by a frog with skin resembling bread covered with poppy seeds. (On view in ‘Craft Front and Center’ at the Museum of Art and Design through Feb 13th.)


David Gilhooly, Bread Frog as a Coffee Break, glazed earthenware; hand wrought, 23 ½ x 15 ½ x 6 ½ inches, 1981-82.

Betty Woodman at Salon94 Freemans

To her repertoire of vessel shapes and flat ceramic wall pieces, Betty Woodman adds carpets created from ceramic off-cuts she calls ‘bones’ in her latest solo show at Salon94 Freemans on the Lower East Side. She uses every available piece of gallery real estate (ceiling next?) to immerse visitors in colorful exuberance in both 2-D and 3-D space.  (Through June 14th).  

Betty Woodman, installation view at Salon94 Freemans of ‘Windows, Carpets and Other Paintings,’ May 2013.

Jeff Zimmerman at the Museum of Art & Design

Jeff Zimmerman, Unique Serpentine Wall-Hung Light Sculptures, hand-blown and hand-shaped glass, 2009.
Jeff Zimmerman, Unique Serpentine Wall-Hung Light Sculptures, hand-blown and hand-shaped glass, 2009.

Elegant and sinister at the same time, Jeff Zimmerman’s hand-blown and hand-shaped glass light sculptures from 2009 are now on view as part of the Museum of Art and Design’s ‘Playing with Fire:  50 Years of Contemporary Glass.’  If you enjoy learning and sharing about contemporary art and design, consider volunteering as a MAD Docent; training begins this spring.