{"id":4437,"date":"2015-07-26T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2015-07-26T09:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T13:01:57","slug":"amy-bessone-matthias-merkel-hess-at-salon94-freemans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/26\/amy-bessone-matthias-merkel-hess-at-salon94-freemans\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Bessone &#038; Matthias Merkel Hess at Salon94 Freemans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ceramic artists Amy Bessone and Matthias Merkel Hess meet in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon94.com\/exhibitions\/detail\/torsos-buckets\" title=\"Salon94Freemans\" target=\"_blank\">Salon94 Freemans<\/a> for a two-person show juxtaposing her female torsos, shaped as empty vessels (maybe vases?), and his containers derived from everyday items like paint buckets and wastebaskets. Bessone&rsquo;s containers pick up on the long association between vessels and the female body in art history, and provocatively change Hess&rsquo;s work by their proximity. (On the Lower East Side through August 21st). <\/p>\n<p><em>Installation view of Torsos and Buckets, featuring work by Amy Bessone and Matthias Merkel Hess, July 2015<\/em>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/10691408\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/files.sendible.com\/10691408\/original.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" style=\"display:none;border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/tracker.sendible.com\/messages\/6909d927-d45d-4fd9-acc1-c01ee9b61990?service=Wordpress&#038;f=2837624&#038;view=true\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceramic artists Amy Bessone and Matthias Merkel Hess meet in Salon94 Freemans for a two-person show juxtaposing her female torsos, shaped as empty vessels (maybe vases?), and his containers derived from everyday items like paint buckets and wastebaskets. Bessone&rsquo;s containers pick up on the long association between vessels and the female body in art history, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/26\/amy-bessone-matthias-merkel-hess-at-salon94-freemans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amy Bessone &#038; Matthias Merkel Hess at Salon94 Freemans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[1213,8,143,18,1215,114,13,570,431,172,434,830,12,654,10,4992,16],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss","tag-amy-bessone","tag-art","tag-art-tours","tag-artist","tag-ceramic","tag-contemporary-art","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tours","tag-lower-east-side","tag-lower-east-side-galleries","tag-lower-east-side-tour","tag-matthias-merkel-hess","tag-new-york","tag-salon94-freemans","tag-sculpture","tag-torsos-and-buckets","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/file24.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-19z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}