The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection Sept. 2014 | Page 60

THE EXHIBITION
Clay often connotes function and utility—think crockery, teapots
and bricks. The thirty-five artists showing over 100 artworks
in The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin
Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, use clay to build
heroic figures, mimic riveted steel, and even riff on a classic tea
set that’s anything but functional. The effects are as different as
Judy Fox’s unnervingly lifelike figures and Edward Eberle’s tiny
graphic porcelain vessels. Life and death, horror and humor,
growth and decay, take forms as diverse as humanity itself.

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