March 8 - April 19, 2025
From Conduit Gallery:
“Conduit Gallery is honored to announce a solo installation of new ceramic works by Mexican-Italian ceramic artist Renata Cassiano Alvarez. With her studio focus on practice, Renata Cassiano Alvarez was prompted to ask herself what would happen if the glaze became the structure of her ceramic sculptures. In her recent works, Cassiano Alvarez transforms glaze from surface material to the structure itself. Her unique process, molding and cutting colored porcelain and glaze, echoes methods used in the Studio Ceramics era of the 1950s. The resulting pieces are reminiscent of archaeological artifacts as well as reference the industrial tile work ubiquitous throughout Mexico and other Latin American countries. Cuarto Verde, the installation of Cassiano Alvarez’s ceramics, is inspired by the lush cloud forest landscapes of Veracruz, Mexico where it is wet and green year-round. Three large totems in the exhibition are reminiscent of their place of origin and seemingly defy gravity with their top-heavy glaze forms and sinewy structures, while the smaller pieces are more playfully demonstrative of her process. Educated in Mexico, Italy, Denmark and the US, Renata Cassiano Alvarez has had the opportunity to work in different artistic environments, leading to a dynamic relationship with different materials and processes. She is a 2024 winner of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award for her sculpture. She has worked alongside clay artists such as Nina Hole, Gustavo Perez, Akio Takamori, amongst others. Her work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public collections in Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, Slovenia and Mexico. She works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Arkansas, US.”
Reception: March 8, 2025 | 5:30–7:30 pm
1626 C Hi Line
Dallas, 75207 TX
(214) 939-0064
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