Emma Scully Gallery is proud to present ‘A Year Without a Kiln,’ a non-ceramic translation of artist and designer Simone Bodmer-Turner’s multi-contextual practice premiering May 2, 2024.
Serving as a topography of self, this inherently personal showcase invites viewers into Bodmer-Turner’s inner landscape during a time of immense transition and creative incubation. Imbued with a sense of kinetic curiosity, each object presented is a marker in a year (2023) when the artist moved her life and practice from an apartment and studio in Brooklyn, New York to a New England farmhouse and orchard in Massachusetts. During this time, Bodmer-Turner didn’t have access to her kiln, the primary tool behind her clay creations. With this absence, she was presented with the metamorphic opportunity to introduce – or in some cases, revisit – different materials into her designs. Collaborating with local artisans and masters of their craft, Simone has been able to experiment with bronze, wood, lacquer and silk, developing a body of non-ceramic work.
| Hours | Tuesday to Friday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PMSaturday 12:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Venue | Emma Scully Gallery |
| Type | Exhibition |
| Duration | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| City | New York City |
About
Emma Scully Gallery
Emma Scully Gallery champions cutting edge contemporary collectible design. Located in a 19th Century townhouse on the Upper East Side, we present challenging work in a rich historic context. We represent and support the work of groundbreaking living artists, designers, and craftspeople. Critical to the gallery’s mission is the exhibition program where new work is commissioned around conceptual themes. This intellectual backbone of our collection, resulting from years of exhibition, is the question of how to deal with the challenges of creating for the today’s material society: the landscape of superabundance, the ecological cost of overproduction and the shift from the physical to the digital world. In promoting equity the gallery recognizes the need to facilitate production in order to support the broadest range of talent in the design community. The gallery therefore acts as manufacturer for a portion of the collection work.
