Satan Ceramics

Opening May 20th, the exhibition hosts works by artists Mary Frey, JJ Peet, Pat McCarthy, Luc Hammond-Thomas, and Tom Sachs, who together form Satan Ceramics. Each of the artists brings an independent practice in sculpture, painting, photography, or installation. Together they pool those sensibilities into ceramic objects that sit at the productive edge of function and art. The group, which formed on the conviction that making is inseparable from living, first showed together over a decade ago at Salon 94. They believe that process, politics, labor, the handmade, humor, gossip, danger, history, and punk sensibility are all bound up in the integrity of the material and the sincerity of the object. As Frey puts it: "Our weekly ritual takes place within the clubhouse where we eat together, share knowledge, discuss, make pots, talk shit and dream.