The Candy Shop
Copy Gallery presents The Candy Shop, a sugar coated feast for the eyes incorporating clay and mixed media sculpture by artists Gerit Grimm and Stephanie Leach. This exhibition will be up for one week only, from March 30th-April 3rd, the gallery will be opened for the exhibition from 10am-8pm Tuesday-Saturday (or; the entire run of the show). Copy will host it's normal First Friday opening reception on April 2nd from 7-11pm.
The Candy Shop is one of 95 exhibitions that are part of INDEPENDENCE: The 44th Annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference taking place in Philadelphia from March 31 – April 3, 2010. The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA is serving as the onsite liaison and organizing body of the exhibitions program. For a complete list of programmed exhibitions, visit: The Clay Studio
In this exhibition artist Gerit Grimm’s figures seek to illustrate the rapture of a childhood dream, the ecstasy of running wild in a candy shop. While Stephanie Leach’s work explores the candy shop of the adult world filled with temptations and sweet distractions; a world where everything from religion to sex has been commodified for mass consumption. Copy invites you to explore these artists more fully through their websites; Stephanie Leach and Gerit Grimm.
The Candy Shop, is among the Concurrent Independent Exhibitions (CIE’s) scheduled as a part of the conference. CIE’s are professionally juried exhibitions selected from a vast array of proposals submitted by NCECA’s membership. Jurors for the 2010 CIE Exhibition Program were Linda Ganstrom, NCECA Exhibitions Director, Jeff Guido, Artistic Director of The Clay Studio, and Conference On-site Liaison, and Amy Sarner Williams, President and CEO of The Clay Studio, and Conference On-site Liaison.
Copy hours are 10am-8pm Tuesday-Saturday during NCECA. For further information and high-resolution images, please contact Annette Monnier, annettemonnier@gmail.com.
Copy Gallery is located at 319 N. 11th St, Philadelphia, PA on the 3rd floor of a warehouse building amongst a myriad of other wonderful art venues. Please visit our website at www.copygallery.org. Read More