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Co-curated by Jehra Patrick (Law Warschaw Gallery Director & Curator) and Summer Hills-Bonczyk (artist and �պ���Ʒing Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Macalester), Strange Place brings together international contemporary artists who look to the plastic language of clay as a prompt to speculate on the behavioral and performative qualities of clay through a range of forms, including video, performance, sculpture, audio, photography and mixed media. Conceptual concerns among artists and objects propose pluralistic notions of “place” — as real, and geographic, fantastic or ethereal, as well as oblique, or pointing to other- and neither-worlds, describing “place” as mythical or through the lens of abstract ethnography.

In the context of the exhibition, the definition for “strange” describes a space of unease that is both possible and impossible – not quite magical nor banal— and the feelings of belonging, presence, and resolve, are negotiated through a relationship with matter, body, and experience. This show takes a forward-looking view of ceramic practice, stretching our expectations for traditional forms and methods. Strange Place views clay less as a medium tied to tradition, and more as a phenomenological substance, well-suited to traverse the pliant landscape of imagined realities.

Featuring work by  (Mumbai, India),  (Singapore, SG), (Philadelphia, PA),  (Sky Valley, CA) and  (Bern, Switzerland).