Sunday, November 6, 2022

Fuller Craft, fantastic mosaics

 Out for a drive to find some foliage (just ok) we stopped by the Fuller Craft Museum to see what  exhibits were on display.  The Fuller is a hit-or-miss in that sometimes the main exhibition can be not something you particularly care for (as in this visit), but sometimes you find the most wonderful displays you were not expecting.  In this visit it was a selection of mosaics, some of which were simply small masterpieces. 

Here is a  photo collection of our visit. 

First up, a selection from an exhibit devoted to croquet mallets and balls as envisioned by a handful of woodworkers.  Here are my favorites.. 

Amy Forsyth
Four!!

Yuri Kobayashi
A Peculiar Woodworker's Croquet Mallet & Ball


Craig Nutt
Cornfield Croquet


Elizabeth Spotswood Spencer
Aunt Emma's Revenge


Kimberly Winkle
Tuft II


Katie Hudnall
Eye Mallet & Ball


Annie Evelyn
Sparkle Princess


Sylvia Rosenthal
Swizzle Mallet


Alf Sharp
Flamingo

 


Beth Ireland
Cross-Quet

This was an installation of a large portion of the museum by Amy Genser, called "Shifting"

An enormous amount of hard (and I imagine very tedious work) went into this.







 


And now, the most enticing and enchanting part of the visit.  All of these mosaics
were done with extremely tiny stones, jewels, etc., and many were simply spectacular.
Most were about two feet square. 

Shawn Newton
Epona
Stained Glass


Michelle Sider
Preening
Glass tiles, stained glass, Italian smalti, iridized glass
(Smalti means colored glass)


Lisa Houck
Wildflowers in the Woods
A Nesting Pair at Sunset
A verdant Area with Rocky Soil
Ceramic and glass Tesserae
(Tesserae, from the Roman, means tablet, which could be stone, ivory, etc., and 
used as a form of exchange, money, etc.)




Elizabeth Martinez
Marley
Stained Glass, Morjo tiles, and vitreous tiles on wood and abaca fiber



Emily Bhargava
Draped
Glass and ceramic on welded steel


Nancy Maloney
Abracadebra
Schist, smalti, Mookaite jasper, and 24k gold smalti


detail 


Jane Chaskey
Attachment
Sea spines, filati, and air-dried clay
filati: yarn



Laurie Frazer
Water Life
Mexican smalti, handmade filate, modified glass bottle parts, apoxie sculpt, 
and tinted thinset on a handmade substrate



Pamela Stratton
Ravenna Dreams
Italian smalti and 24k gold smalti on fabric with encaustic wax

Ravenna, Italy, is the site of some of the most well preserved medieval mosaics.



Nikki Sullivan
Earth Day
Metal, vintage painted wood, asphalt, hand cut stone, pottery,
and turquoise chips



Shawn Newton
Miriam
Italian smalti, marble, granite, beads, gold bracelet jewelry findings, 
semi-precious stones




Nicole Weber
Viola with Anthony
Tile, glass, and recycled pots and slatge



Cassie Doyon
Pangea Totem Group
Ceramic tile, smalti, copper, pyrite and metal on ceramic

And from the collection of the Fuller:

Sergei Isupov and Kadri Parnamets
Sin
Procelain, slip, and glaze



Lois Russell
Blue Blub
Twined waxed linen



Boston Area Mask Initiative
Quilt
Woven cotton, cotton batting, and cotton thread


Anina Major
Plait # 00205042021
Stonewear, sea glass, and lusters

And, finally the main event, a very contemporary kind of hodge podge of
his latest endeavors.  Jewelry, fashion, constructions.  
I wasn't very taken by much of it but I did like these two very large well pieces, 
about 4 feet square. 



Daniel Jocz
Self-Portrait (2020)



Daniel Jocz
Sunday Drive, from "Garage Band' series 2014

I think I was drawn to this because it is such a good illustration 
of driving in Massachusetts these days.  Especially on Rt. 24.

As always, I encourage you to visit the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, 
a small absolute jewel of a museum in a beautiful environment.


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