Word: clay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joey Ferrugia is an instructor/sculptor at the studio, currently having a show at Passim coffee house. Her works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One piece looks like a horse's head resting on a three dimensional triangle; another resembles a pyramid changing into a flamingo. Though these creations were assembled especially for this presentation--most have been made since September--they nevertheless lack the group coherence and consistency that should characterize a professional show...
...means by education was apparent in a visit to the neighborhood primary school, where ranks of chanting, ten-year-old martinets were memorizing verses that told them of their ineradicable debt to Chairman Mao. Ideological work for their elders took place in a "recall bitterness" room, where melodramatic clay figures of pre-Liberation exploited workers were neatly set on display opposite a collection of San Francisco leftist poster...
There might as well be a magazine called Playgun to offer forthright celebration of America's steamy relationship with firearms. Such a publication might eliminate the need to justify all that noisy discharge of lead at tin cans, clay pigeons and passing cars that is so dyed-ih-the-Dacron American. There might even be a centerfold featuring the latest model that has come to the big city for the exciting night life-but ultimately, of course, would like to settle down as a policeman's side...
...bring die-hard climbers back year after year. But Adam's attraction just begins with its Himalayan similarities. Ask any climber who knows the range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much like the Alps. But Adams is different...
...these custom-made headquarters, Jim Rippe '69, a former History and Literature student, turns out his zany--but certainly not dismissable--structures of fired clay. They are not ceramics, and though they are hollow they can't really be called pottery. Rippe would like to resist calling them anything...