Works by SUNY Potsdam Ceramics Professor Displayed at Bates College Museum of Art

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This 2012 work by SUNY Potsdam Professor of Ceramics Marc Leuthold is called “After Five DC Drawings,” and is on display at the Bates College Museum of Art.

POTSDAM, NY (02/27/2015)(readMedia)-- Works by SUNY Potsdam Professor Marc Leuthold are currently on display in an intriguing collaborative exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine. The head of ceramics in SUNY Potsdam's art department, Leuthold is part of a two-person show along with Dawn Clements, called "Back and Forth."

For "Back and Forth," Clements and Leuthold collaborated primarily from a distance. Each artist created work in his or her studio, then sent or delivered it to the other. Clements interpreted sculptures she received from Leuthold into works on paper. In some drawings, she made works that focus exclusively on Leuthold's forms, and in others, she incorporated drawing passages of his work into larger drawings. Leuthold made sculptural responses to Clements' works on paper. Some focus on creating a discrete sculpture in response her work. In others, Leuthold carved "ceramic drawings", or passages, into his sculptures.

The "Back and Forth" exhibition is curated by Dan Mills, the former director of SUNY Potsdam's Gibson Gallery. The show will be open through Saturday, March 21. For more information, visit www.bates.edu/museum/exhibitions/current/back-and-forth-the-collaborative-works-of-dawn-clements-and-marc-leuthold.

About the artist:

Marc Leuthold is known for his ceramic sculptures. His works have entered the collections of the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums, and the Museum of Art and Design. Carving, modeling, throwing and hand building in a variety of clay bodies, he explores a wide range of forms and subjects. The wheel is one he has returned to for years, exploring this form and its associations in highly refined sculptures carved with variegated flutes and other structural and decorative embellishments. Leuthold has also investigated the sculptural possibilities of clay (and occasionally bronze and glass) through other series that focus on the figure, cones, clay drawings, and large installations. Some, such as the cones, address age-old ceramic issues such as the vessel, interior/exterior, etc., but bring these issues into a broader sculptural context. Others, such as the superb installations he has created since the late 1990s, push the traditional boundaries of the media, materially and conceptually. He is a lifetime member of the International Academy of Ceramics. Leuthold is represented by George Billis Gallery in New York City.

Art students at SUNY Potsdam live and create in a unique art environment, within the context of a stimulating liberal arts tradition. For more information, visit www.potsdam.edu/art.

Founded in 1816, The State University of New York at Potsdam is one of only three arts campuses in the entire SUNY system. SUNY Potsdam's arts curriculum offers the full palette: music, theatre, dance, fine arts and creative writing. No matter the discipline, people from all backgrounds can find their creative compass at Potsdam, with myriad arts immersion experiences available for both campus and community.

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