Ceramics by Carles Vives

Remember to stop by this week and check out our Wild Card exhibition "Ceramics by Carles Vives"! Delavan Art Gallery is one of two outside venues chosen to exhibit selections of works by Carles Vives, on loan from Onondaga Community College where the ceramicist recently completed a residency. “Ceramics by Carles Vives” runs through this Saturday, March 28 at the Delavan, concurrent with a similar display featured on loan at the Everson Museum.

In the interest of a cultural exchange, Vives was invited here by OCC art professor Andy Schuster to do workshops and an exhibit at The Gallery at Ann Felton Multicultural Center. Schuster and Vives are long-time friends who once shared a studio in Spain. From his home in Catalonia, Vives traveled to the United States for the first time and set to work with OCC students, redoing and firing his architectural and sculptural pieces influenced by the different environment of their world. The artist says that some of the work he created here in February reflects Syracuse’s nature, especially winter tree branches.

With regard to community outreach, Professor Schuster planned to give more of the public the opportunity to view and experience Vives’ multiple talents before his show ends at the college in mid-April. “Doing a show at the Delavan Art Gallery was a likely choice,” he says. “Bill Delavan is known for his untiring efforts to enrich the community. His art gallery, readily accessible to the public, is home to many regional artists and their diverse works of high quality art.”

Bill Delavan says of his gallery’s Wild Card show: “The Delavan Art Gallery, along with the Everson Museum of Art, is honored to host “Ceramics by Carles Vives.”

Gallery hours this week are Thursday and Friday, noon-6pm, and Saturday 10am-4pm. Stop by and see this stunning exhibition!