PAUL HEROUX : NEW WORK  
December 1, 2006- January 2, 2007
Opening Reception SATURDAY: DEC. 2nd 3 - 5pm

For Imediate Release

Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of ceramics by Paul Heroux. For this exhibition Heroux has put together a show of beautiful stoneware vessels that blur the line between craft and fine art creating visually rich pieces that beg to be touched. A former painter whose medium is now glazing, he builds up each vessel using a combination of slab and coil building techniques to create a three dimensional canvas.

The surfaces of Heroux’s objects become heavily worked up as he challenges himself to make each side interesting enough to pull the viewer around the entire piece. He doesn’t used a repeated pattern but rather approaches each side of the object much like a painter would a canvas, juxtaposing soft color with hard line and dense shapes that set off one another. Influenced by his surroundings, the imagery is often ambiguous, drawn from nature and everyday life. Some of it more easily decipherable then others, a clamshell will float through a sea of markings that upon closer inspection resembles the markings of a pine tree, much like the ones that sit outside of his studio in Maine. Each piece stands on its own with touch of whimsy but also a sense of labor and intensity. There is an undeniable presence to the pieces that is in part associated with the large and somewhat irregular forms, but also due their intensely beautiful surfaces that resemble functional abstract paintings. They command a certain amount of visual space as they draw you in a beg to you admire each surface as it flexes and moves slowly winding through it’s story.

 

 

 

For further information please contact Alexis Dunfee at Howard Yezerski Gallery 617.262.0550 Tuesday - Saturday 10-5:30pm