I’m excited to announce my solo show at Sherrie Gallerie in Columbus, OH! The exhibition, After the Bloom, features new work from 2019. For a list of available work, please contact the gallery.
Upcoming Joali Workshop Featured in Forbes
I’m so excited to announce that my upcoming workshop at Joali Maldives was featured in Forbes! I will be leading both paper and clay workshops for Joali resort guests over the course of two weeks from December 23rd to January 6th. Through the workshops, a paper and clay artworks will be created inspired by the Maldives coral reefs. Families will be able to join me at the Joali Art Studio during the day to learn about reefs in the Maldives and create a unique paper/clay artwork to take home.
Joali is beginning its series of visiting-artist-run workshops.
This series will begin with a two-week program by Zemer Peled, the creator of the spa-based coral sculpture, who is known for her porcelain artworks inspired by natural forms. From December 23rd to January 6th, the artist will be leading paper and clay workshops for guests on the island. You’ll be able to join the artist in the Joali Studio each day to gain insight into the Maldivian coral reefs and create your own paper and clay artworks to take home with you at the end of your stay. You’ll look at the colors and shapes found within the reef while experimenting with different ways of working with the materials, from moulding the clay to paper folding and painting.
Giving insight into her work for Joali, Peled explains: “My sculpture, Maldives Vibes, was inspired by the rich underwater world of the Maldives coral reefs. It is primarily white in color to symbolize the coral bleaching that has affected the Maldives, but the striking colors that embellish the sculpture serve as both a memory of the vibrant coral reef and encouragement for its future protection. Over the course of two weeks, participants of my workshop on Joali will create their own paper and clay sculptures inspired by the Maldives coral reefs.”
Joali’s general manager, Steven Phillips, then elaborates on the resort’s overall plans: “We want some of the same artists who created work for the island to come back for two weeks to three months to host workshops in the island’s studio. I want them to use interesting mediums like painting on silk or clay. We’re putting a kiln in for Zemer, so she can do ceramics with the guests, then we’ll keep the kiln here. At the same time, I’m asking the artists who come over to leave an artwork behind, so we’ll get a new piece of artwork from each set of workshops we host.”
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Exhibition
I’m honored to announce that one of my sculptures is included in the exhibition It’s All Black and White at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. The exhibition can be viewed August 27 - December 8, 2019.
Exhibition at Fuller Craft Museum
I am excited to announce that my piece, Untitled 2, is currently on display at Fuller Craft in the Permanent Collection gallery exhibition “Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay” from August 17, 2019 - May 3, 2020.
Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay presents recent additions to Fuller Craft’s ceramic collection. Exhibited works represent a range of processes and conceptual approaches in clay, from Cheryl Ann Thomas’s slumped, coiled sculpture to Jun Kaneko’s painterly “dango” to Steven Young Lee’s deconstructed pot. Figuration also comes into play, with strong examples by Patti Warashina, Akio Takamori, and Tip Toland. Fuller Craft Museum is proud to shine a light on the clay triumphs of these renowned ceramicists while proudly displaying the institution’s recent collecting achievements.
Upcoming Studio Workshop
I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be teaching another two-day workshop at my new studio in Baltimore on December 7-8, 2019!
Over the course of the weekend, students will learn how to create a small sculpture using porcelain fragments in various shapes and sizes.
You can register online using the link below:
Cool Clay at the Crocker Art Museum
I’m honored to be a part of the Crocker Art Museum’s Cool Clay exhibition! The exhibition is showing from July 21, 2019 through July 19, 2020 in Sacramento, CA.
From raw textures to meticulous details, to glazes bursting with color, the works in Cool Clay represent one of the most exciting and expansive fields of contemporary art. This exhibition highlights a selection of notable acquisitions that strengthen the Crocker Art Museum’s ceramics holdings in both diversity and scope, the majority by artists not previously represented in the permanent collection. These include influential figures like Rudy Autio, Jun Kaneko, Tony Marsh, Edwin Scheier, Nancy Selvin, and Akio Takamori, as well as more recent leaders like Peter Olson, Zemer Peled, Brian Rochefort, and Dirk Staschke. Although the artists pursue a great variety of approaches and techniques, each embraces the experimental and playful sensibility this versatile medium engenders. Spanning six decades of studio practice, this exhibition celebrates the ground-breaking achievements of 20th-century ceramists as well as those who today continue to reimagine the possibilities of working in clay.
The exhibit has been featured in Art Daily.
Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
C’est le bouquet! | Bernardaud Porcelain Factory | Limoges, France | Ongoing through February 2018
Zemer is featured in the group exhibition C’est le bouquet!: When Flowers Inspire Ceramics. C’est le bouquet! brings together seventeen ceramic artists that have created work using flowers as the primary inspiration.
From Hélène Huret, director of the Fondation Bernardaud and exhibition curator and Joséphine Le Foll, author of the catalogue and art historian specializing in the floral painting genre and Renaissance art:
“Confined for centuries to vase bodies and plate rims, flowers are breaking out from the decorative arts to enrich contemporary art. The Fondation Bernardaud is presenting seventeen international artists, inspired by the floral theme, that have elected to work in ceramics, most of whom have never exhibited in France. The broad spectrum of ideas expressed in these pieces demonstrates that this ancient, timeless theme has an amazing ability to regenerate itself.” (from the Bernardaud exhibition page)
Art Fairs | The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Peled will be showing at these upcoming art fairs with The Cynthia Corbett Gallery:
Art Miami
December 5-10, 2017
www.artmiami.com
London Art Fair
January 17-21, 2018
www.londonartfair.co.uk
COLLECT
February 22-25, 2018
London Saatchi Gallery
www.craftscouncil.org.uk/
