Renwick Invitational 2016: Visions and Revisions - Tapa blanda

Based on the seventh instalment of the biennial Renwick Invitational, this striking volume, presents the work of Steven Young Lee, Kristen Morgin, Jennifer Trask, and Norwood Viviano. The four selected artists work in a remarkable variety of media including porcelain, raw clay, bone, gold, glass, metal, found objects and mineral pigments. Their visual sensibilities draw on sources ranging from traditional Asian pottery to vintage Americana, and from the romance of the Victorian Era to the algorhythmic precision of the computer. Together, they engage a current fascination in American craft with change, transformation, ruin, and reinvention.

Suzanne Ramljak, a writer, art historian, and curator, is editor of Metalsmith magazine and curator of exhibitions at the American Federation of Arts. She was formerly editor of both Sculpture and of Glass Quarterly magazines. Ramljak is the author of Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Elie Nadelman: Classical Folk, and has contributed to numerous other publications, including One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today. She has lectured widely on contemporary art and served as guest curator for several exhibitions, among them Different Tempers: Jewelry and Blacksmithing; Body Language: Contemporary Art Jewelry; and Protective Ornament: Contemporary Amulets to Armor.