Calvin Ma, Duck Out, ceramic, glaze and resin, 18 x 12 x 8". Crocker Art Museum. Gift of the artist, 2019.91. Photo by Calvin Ma.
Duck Out
Bay Area sculptor Calvin Ma’s Duck Out has recently been added to the Crocker Art Museum’s permanent collection. The ceramic figurine, which features a humanoid figure disguised as a mallard duck, joins the Sacramento, California, institution’s other Ma piece, Around and Around. Both works delve into the intricate and often unseen world of social anxiety, with Duck Out having come from Ma’s recent Blend In series, and Around and Around from his earlier Homebodies series.
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An installation view of The Space Between: Frank Lloyd Wright | Jun Kaneko at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House. Photo by Brenda Bieger.
The Space Between
Frank Llyod Wright’s Martin House and Albright-Knox’s Public Art Initiative have partnered to create The Space Between: Frank Lloyd Wright | Jun Kaneko, an installation of large-scale ceramic sculptures by Jun Kaneko positioned throughout Martin House’s historic landscape. Japanese artist Kaneko’s process involves slowly layering literal tons of clay over weeks and months to shape some of the world’s largest ceramic artworks. The artist refers to these objects as dangos, a Japanese term for dumplings and other gently rounded forms. The end result of his sculptures are abstract forms often punctuated by energetic, cheerful colors. The installation will remain on view through October 3, 2021.
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Alison Saar, Martyrdom of St. Rufus, painted fresco with collage on wooden sticks. Gift of Joe Austin.
Social Justice and Identity
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in Logan, Utah, presents African American Art, Social Justice and Identity, addressing Black identity in the United States through works of art by 10 African American artists, as well as ephemera from collectives including the Black Panthers, spanning 1887 to 1989. Artists whose work is featured in the exhibition—sourced from the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art collection—include Romare Bearden, Grafton Tyler Brown, Claude Clark, Warrington Colescott, Trenton Hancock Doyle, Talita Long, National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, John Outterbridge, Alison Saar and Charles White. The exhibition will be on view through December 19. —
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