MONTAUK LOVE SONG

Joan Walton

September 24 – October 12, 2019
Opening Reception: September 26th, 5:30 PM-8 PM

MONTAUK LOVE SONG is an exhibition of ceramic sculpture and photography inspired by the luminous beauty of Montauk’s hidden landscapes and small treasures brought in by the ocean tides. It is a celebration of a deep love for a place intimately known. It explores the artist’s thoughts about exposure and protection, vulnerability and inaccessibility, and the passage of time and beauty.

This collection of recent work juxtaposes the tactile qualities and spatial experience of hand-built clay vessels with the 2-dimensional plane of the photograph, where the viewer looks through the flat surface into a perceived space.

Joan Walton received her BFA with honors from Pratt Institute, majoring in photography. She began working in clay after an extensive career in art direction and photo editing. Her award-winning ceramic work has been widely exhibited in the U.S., and as a visiting artist in China and Korea. Although she has been taking photographs during the full arc of her career as an artist, she is showing her images to the public for the first time.

“It’s difficult to know where to look first: the colorful interiors that gleam or the aggressively textural exteriors in nuanced monotones found in Joan Walton’s fine art ceramics. Moving between the two doesn’t seem to solve the dilemma as each distinct area commands time and attention. Taken together, the works present an unusual pairing that contributes to a unique and intriguing whole.” – Pat Rogers, Hamptons ArtHub

A full-color catalogue will be available at the gallery and on Magcloud.com.