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Adam Silverman
November 29
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December 29, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 5:30 - 7:30pm
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"Equally rousing though far more modest in scale are the ceramic works of Adam Silverman, in the project room and back office. The roughly two dozen vessels, the largest of which is no bigger than a basketball, combine clean, thin-walled, traditional forms — round with a narrow neck or columnar — with thick, expressive, richly organic glazes.
The craftsmanship is exquisite. Some have smooth, dark surfaces, with pale drips running across at unexpected angles. Others have rough, crusted surfaces, resembling dried foam. Others — my favorite — are clean, elegant, matte gray vessels partially coated with a lumpy, earthy, glossy, green-brown glaze, thick enough to serve as a sculptural element in itself. The contrast between the high refinement of the vessels' lines and the mad unruliness of the glaze brings two opposing veins of ceramic practice into a masterful and deeply absorbing balance." LA Times review of Adam Silverman at Light Box Gallery,
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