Shaping Time, ceramics and drawings opens at Cloyde Snook Gallery Feb. 9

(02-02-2007)

The Adams State College Cloyde Snook Gallery is hosting Shaping Time, ceramics and drawings by Paul F. Morris of Fort Collins. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9 in the Art Building. The show will continue through March 8. Morris will lecture about his work from 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. in room 227 of the Art Building preceding the lecture.

The pots I make are sculptural ewers, that is, pouring vessels. Implied uses inherent in the vessel archetype and the interplay of positive and negative sculptural spaces inform my exploration of behavioral reciprocity with my ewers: filling and emptying, giving and receiving, containing and dispensing, communication and understanding, presence and absence, male and female, touching and being touched, seeing and being seen, imposing and deferring, creation and destruction."

"My intention is to make innovative, vigorous, potent objects, identifiable 21st Century American and, by configuration, more or less stereotypically 'male' associated with behavioral attributes of that gender. I trust that the thoughtful observer will detect a certain irony in the work, more than a touch of humor, a resonance with the body, and those conduct traits on a continuum of good to bad that so embody the exhibit."

A student fibers exhibit, Exploration in Fibers, will be in the Hatfield Gallery during the same time frame.

The gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information contact the Art Department at 719-587-7823.

By Linda Relyea