Product Description
This exclusive SHOP + Sarasota Art Museum Edition consists of earthenware plates handpainted in white, blue and gold luster. Measures when installed 20" wide by 24" high. This limited edition is mounted directly onto the wall and comes with a template for installation. Edition of 5.
About: Molly hatch (American, born 1978) is a ceramic artist and designer best known for large-scale wall installations of her hand-painted ceramic plates. For nearly 20 years she has worked to merge the distinctive look of painterly surfaces with the physicality of ceramic forms.
The patterns and motifs deployed in Hatch’s plates in Amalgam are drawn from historical ceramics, such as 15th-century Chinese Ming-dynasty Hanap drinking vessels, 19th-century Moroccan Fassi (from Fez) ware, 17th- and 18th-century Dutch Delft vases, 18th-century Mexican Talavera tile panels, and 19th- and 20th-century Japanese-inspired English ceramics designed by Christopher Dresser. By creating a cross-cultural bricolage of blue-and-white motifs ubiquitous in these ceramic wares, Hatch brings to the fore material and visual evidence of centuries-old global trade networks and the resultant shared aesthetics that connect us. As seen in Amalgam, Hatch’s research-based, critical practice contributes to a genre of fine art ceramics with as rigorous a practice as painting or sculpture.
