November Issue 2001
UNC Charlotte Features Works by Virginia Scotchie in Cone Center Gallery
A solo ceramic sculpture exhibition by a nationally
recognized ceramic sculptor, Virginia Scotchie, Associate Professor,
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, will be on view
Nov. 10 through Dec. 15 in the Cone Center Gallery at UNC-Charlotte
in Charlotte, NC. The exhibition is entitled, Domestic Abstractions.
"The dignity of Virginia Scotchie's ceramic sculpture is deceptively complex. Scotchie conveys time and sensation with wit and restraint in her curiously tender abstractions. It is a skillful achievement for a conceptual artist to yield such compassionate and accessible forms," said Marthe Le Van, Creative Director of the Blue Spiral 1 gallery in Asheville, NC.
"Like excavated relics, Virginia Scotchie's sculptures feel important. They are ageless objects with attributes resistant to obvious classification. As easily dredged from the depths of the sea as tumbled to earth from outer space, the artist's visual language suspends formal association. This breadth of interpretation is essential to her work," adds Le Van.
"Scotchie's metallic surfaces can suggest both the faded opulence of a vanished era and the glow of modern technology. The crusty glazes can be sprouting organic matter or a corrosive collapse. Punctures and craters could be natural or mechanical with openings small and restraining or wide and inviting. Such contrasting superficial elements are pivotal to the temporal strength of her sculpture."
"The artist's most recent creations appear inflated with a curvaceous fullness. Through careful compositions, Virginia Scotchie offers the minimum amount of information needed to express her intention. A mature artist cannot only recognize but also honor the integrity of understatement. Over the course of Scotchie's career, her allusions have become more subtle. Discovering the visual impact of the simplest contours has helped Scotchie to extract the work's most fundamental nature..," said Le Van.
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