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Dubhe Carreño Gallery Contemporary Ceramic Art |
Barbara Hashimoto
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“Barbara Hashimoto’s richly textured new work conjures up fire’s split personality – its power to sustain life and to extinguish it... As in her last, quietly moving show here, Hashimoto’s sati work unfolds as a highly aestheticized meditation on the gender dynamics implicit in the custom… Hashimoto’s strength is in creating textual equivalents to the conditions of compromise, violation, fragility and endurance that are integral to her discussion of sati… “ Leah Olman, Los Angeles Times
“Barbara Hashimoto’s works explore the strategies of power. Surveying a wide array of contexts, she has studied Japanese manga images, Hindu moral story-books, and, more recently the European tales of Shakespeare and Zola. Defining a circuit of exchange between East and West, between so-called low and high culture , her works deconstruct both popular and historically respected voices, pointing to their patriarchal paradigms and whispering of both the failure and dream for a greater democratization of social power…” Collette Chattopahyay, Sculpture Magazine
“…The addition of this highly accomplished and finely conceived work to our ceramics collection is an important event. It seamlessly crosses the borders between traditional craft and fine art, both conceptually and technically and urges the viewer to stop and contemplate. I am sure that the piece will gain considerable attention from our visitors…I look forward to following Barbara's career very closely as I believe her reputation will rise very rapidly in the near future.” Ursula Use-Neuman, Curator, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York
“…It was most interesting to read, in the material you've sent along, that a book installation here at the Art Institute was somewhat influential to your artistic development. I am looking forward to see how other artists who are at the beginning of their career will now be influenced by your work during our presentations. The material you use and your courage in how you use it will make a wonderful addition to the other works and will stimulate many thoughts and discussions…” Doro Boehme, Curator, Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection)
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