Embracing Night: New Ceramics by Farraday Newsome Sredl
Farraday Newsome Sredl is well-known nationally for her work in the traditional majolica technique. Her vessels are covered in bold and abundant patterns of fruit, plants and animals, with infusions of desert plantlife from her experience here in Phoenix. Her new work shows a surprising shift to a black and white palette that allows for more detailed and personally expressive imagery. Both bodies of work will be included in the exhibition to graphically illustrate the changes and consistencies in an artist’s work over time.
About the Artist
Farraday Newsome Sredl lives and works in Apache Junction, Arizona. She received a BA form the University of California at Santa Cruz and went on to receive a MA from San Francisco State University. Her work has exhibited at Jill Spanbauer Gallery, Naples, Florida; Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Twist, Portland, Oregon; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona; Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, California; and the Javier Puig Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her work was included in the selected group exhibitions Collectors Choice II, Arizona State University Art Museum; SOFA, Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Contemporary Maiolica, The Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas; Seduced by Colour: Contemporary International Maiolica Ceramics, George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada; Tureens, Gallerymateria, Scottsdale, Arizona; ’99 Cups, Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona; On the Surface: An Exhibition of Painterly Clay, The Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, Ohio; International Ceramics Exhibition II, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic; Fish Out of Water, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA; and Vessels, an Eclectic View, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennslyvania.
Season Opening Reception
On Friday, September 20, the ASU Art Museum will present receptions for Mark Klett: Ideas About Time, Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves, Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean and other videos, and The Aftermath, (911): Photographs by Janis Lewin from 7 – 9pm at the Arizona State University Art Museum’s Nelson Fine Arts Center location and Ceramics Research Center.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Embracing Night: New Ceramics by Farraday Newsom Serdl will be installed in the Main Gallery of the Arizona State University Art Museum’s Ceramics Research Center location.
Duration
Embracing Night: New Ceramics by Farraday Newsome Sredl
(August 28 – December 14, 2002) is open Wednesday through Saturday from 12am to 5pm.
Support
The exhibition and related programs are supported in part by CLA and Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
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