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Potter Ming Yuen-Schat, Fort Greene, to Exhibit @ American Fine Craft Show @ Brooklyn Museum Nov. 19-20
Six Brooklyn artisans and a fine artist exhibit and sell their work in time for holiday shopping at Brooklyn Museum along with 83 others
Potter Ming Yuen-Schat, Mings Monsters, whose studio is in Fort Greene, joins four jewelers, a furniture maker and fine artist who also work in Brooklyn and are among 90 exhibitors at the fourth American Fine Craft Show Brooklyn at Brooklyn Museum, November 19-20, 2016. The tickets to the show, in the regal Beaux-Arts Court, include general admission to the Museum.
The show is produced and curated by An American Craftsman Galleries that has supported crafts artists since 1982, longer than any other gallery in New York City, representing the work of over 500 from across the country.
Born in Taiwan, Yuen-Schat expresses his interest in the interplay between modernism and wabi-sabi. “As an artistic form,” wrote the potter on his website, “wabi-sabi embraces that which is imperfect, asymmetrical, and deliberately crude, which is diametrically opposed to the influence of commercialized modernism which values slick, high-tech, machine-made objects and considers imperfection to be a defect.” Ming, who has a Masters in Architecture from MIT, describes how he designs and crafts his “monsters,” the bottles, bowls, flower containers, sculptures, trays and vases he makes in his three collections: Jewel, Chalice and Flame. They are “hand-shaped, usually on the wheel, and then altered. Ming’s finger marks are on every monster.” Flames, smoke and ash from a wood kiln paint the pots with color and texture.
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The craft show is timed for holiday shopping but not too close to Hanukah and Christmas so visitors will have time to also see the magnificent current and long-term exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum. Concurrent special exhibitions include “Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty;” “Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals;” “Iggy Pop Life Class by Jeremy Deller” and a ticketed exhibition, “Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present,” $16 at the admissions desk.
For more information visit www.brooklyncraftshow.com.
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Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.
Directions: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org...
Hours: Saturday Nov. 19: 11 am – 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 20: 11 am-6 pm
Tickets: Cash only at entrance: Adults - $16.00 Seniors -$14.00 Students - $10.00 Museum members with membership card - $8 Children under 10-Free. Online: $12 for everyone until Nov. 10 and $14 after that. http://www.americanfinecraftshowbrooklyn.com
Tickets Include general admission to Brooklyn Museum
