PLAY DATE . 2023
Nineteen sculptural ceramics with a selection of watercolors: May 4 - June 23, 2023 at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland.
Nineteen sculptural ceramics with a selection of watercolors: May 4 - June 23, 2023 at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland.
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Bacio
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EXHIBITION CATALOG . INtroduction by Carl Little
Moving from luminous watercolors to fanciful ceramics is to witness—and take part in—an engaging aesthetic back-and-forth, one that offers biomorphic shapes, balancing acts, and vessels that might be the most charming you’ve ever met.
Bronstein knows the ways of watercolor, that notoriously misbehaving medium: she has been honing her skills for decades. This time around she exploits its fluid traits to create abstract compositions in which she combines both diaphanous and solid, pale washes with darker passages. There are assorted stained glass grids, free-floating circles, and cairn-like arrangements of stone shapes. For all their improvised qualities, these paintings cohere into complete designs.
The ceramic pieces have organic qualities too. Some resemble plants or gourds; others are abstract forms inscribed with irregular stripes or girdled in stoneware straps. Then Bronstein surprises us: curious creatures—dogs, cats, birds, sometimes two at a time—appear atop and within the glazed hand-shaped creations, looking around as if they were discovering a new world.
Inventive and spirited, this is a play date to remember.
Bronstein knows the ways of watercolor, that notoriously misbehaving medium: she has been honing her skills for decades. This time around she exploits its fluid traits to create abstract compositions in which she combines both diaphanous and solid, pale washes with darker passages. There are assorted stained glass grids, free-floating circles, and cairn-like arrangements of stone shapes. For all their improvised qualities, these paintings cohere into complete designs.
The ceramic pieces have organic qualities too. Some resemble plants or gourds; others are abstract forms inscribed with irregular stripes or girdled in stoneware straps. Then Bronstein surprises us: curious creatures—dogs, cats, birds, sometimes two at a time—appear atop and within the glazed hand-shaped creations, looking around as if they were discovering a new world.
Inventive and spirited, this is a play date to remember.
Stargazer . NFS
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BETWEEN REALITY & FANTASY . SOLD
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UNCONDITIONAL LOVE . SOLD
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Cuddle . SOLD
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Secret Conversation 1 . SOLD
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PRAYER
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Curiosity . SOLD
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NAVIGATING DESIRE
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Pool Gazer . SOLD
Thunder, Lightning . SOLD
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WHAT YOU SEEK IS SEEKING YOU
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Blind Seer . NFS
Dance, Bloom . SOLD
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ARCHIPELAGO
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The Space Between
MIND GAMES
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Blissful Solitude . SOLD
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Nostalgia . SOLD
FALLING IN LOVE . SOLD
Play Date
WHAT I'VE DONE WITH WHERE I'VE BEEN
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Sunrise, Sunset . NFS
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ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN . SOLD