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Jul 16 2021

CONVERSATIONS IN CLAY KG PS

CONVERSATIONS IN CLAY

KATHERINE GLENDAY & PETER SPELIOPOULOS


07.08.2021

Ateliers Courbet presents Conversations in Clay — A dialogue between South African ceramicist, Katherine Glenday and multidisciplinary artist, Peter Speliopoulos, about their relationships with clay, their processes, and their inspirations.

About Katherine Glenday:

Living and working in Cape Town, South Africa, Katherine Glenday has continued to explore and hone the materiality of porcelain for over forty years. The artist has never ceased to pursue an unwavering path, exploring the material’s wide range of expressive qualities, while continuing to learn different time-honored techniques through ongoing collaboration with master ceramicists around the world. Highly informed by the visual arts — painting and drawing —, her porcelain works explore the contrasts of emphasized organic textures on soft skin-like surfaces. Each of her pieces defies the materiality of the porcelain, stretching the matter to its thinnest; their translucent skin enthralls the natural light, while their silhouettes embody the artist’s gesture as it quietly evokes movement.

Continuing a six-year-long collaboration between the New York gallery and the artist, Glenday’s third solo exhibition at Courbet, titled “Relationalities”  (which opened in the front gallery on April 29 and has migrated to the center gallery) explores a sculptural body of work incorporating autobiographical elements from the artist’s ancestry dating back to the 18th-century Dutch trade of Chinese porcelain. The works in the exhibition are a collection of cast vessels along with wheel-thrown porcelain vessels with endemic minerals and oxides gleaned from the natural world around her, acting as paint upon the delicate, meticulously thrown porcelain canvas.

About Peter Speliopoulos:

Peter Speliopoulos is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, of Greek descent, who currently lives and works between New York and Patmos, Greece. He received his BFA from the Parsons School of Design and established an international career as a high fashion designer and costume designer for opera and modern ballet. His designs and creative direction have inspired the collections of Christian Dior, Cerruti and Donna Karan among others; his costume designs significantly figured in the work of director/choreographers Karole Armitage and Luca Veggetti. 

On June 10th, his sophomore show, CHTHONIC, opened at Ateliers Courbet. Created throughout the evolution of the pandemic in his Hudson Valley Cellar Studio, the work is an interpretive approach to the Primordial Gods of the Greek underworld. Full of texture,  sweeping forms, and personality these works highlight his passion for craftsmanship, organic textures and his long standing fascination for and experimentation with the medium. This collection of highly textured and adorned vessels reflects the artist’s interest in the malleability and tactile expressions of clay as well as a personal and contemporary investigation of masculinity, femininity, and the time honored techniques of the traditional wheel-thrown forms of Antiquity.  

Works on View


KG | 210401 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 25 

KG | 210402 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 01 

KG | 210403 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 17 

KG | 210404 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 11 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 28 

KG | 210405 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 05 

KG | 210406 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 09 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 04 

KG | 210407 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 21 

KG | 210408 

KG | 210409 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 51 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 42 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 15 

KG | 210410 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 03 

KG | 210411 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 06 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 02 

KG | 210412 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 16 

KG | 210413 

KG | 210414 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 40 

KG | 210415 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 10 

KG | 210416 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 07 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 22 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 08 

KG | 210417 

KG | 210418 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 48 

KG | 210419 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 46 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 12 

KG | 210420 

KG | 210421 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 14 

KG | 210422 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 33 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 36 

KG | DRIPS 

KG | 210424 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 35 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 27 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 44 

KG | 210425 

KG | 210426 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 34 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 13 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 47 

KG | 210427 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 39 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 43 

KG | 210428 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 37 

KG | 210429 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 41 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 50 

KG | 210430 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 18 

KG | 210431 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 49 

KG | 210432 

KG | 210433 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 20 

KG | 210434 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 19 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 23 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 24 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 26 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 29 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 30 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 31 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 32 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 38 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 45 

CHTHONIC VESSEL 52 

KG | 210435 

KG | 210901 

KG | 210902 

KG | 210903 

KG | 210904 

Written by Ateliers Courbet · Categorized: Exhibitions

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