~DAN MANDELBAUM / CERAMIC FIGURES / MARVIN GARDENS / feel the heat !!

UP-DATE: SUN AUG 15, 2021

well, maybe ‘playful’ – isn’t exactly the right word.
just go ahead & substitute . . ‘terrifying’ !!

invoking the sun to come out and play is not – what this summer is all about.
more like: less sun, more moderation / more awareness. more industrial / cultural mindset . . change.
with all the huge wild fires raging out of control across the globe – with great destruction / and, artists hate destruction, archival, historic, and present endeavors / though p.s. ceramics are pretty much indestructible, by the way / raging fires destroying everything in their path & all around the globe, melting ice caps & resultant extreme storms & rising sea levels, interior river floods / and, now of course, with basically war – if not just a fraught retreat / in a very hot country consuming the headlines,
invoking the sun gods to come out & play – is tempting your fate.
something New Yorkers had considered themselves lucky to be not vulnerable to, situated where they were, as in not flooded, not on fire, and not at war.

though seriously – all you millennial creatives out there / this is an island, and it will go under / or parts of it will / for sure, at some point.

but, the average New Yorker – civilian day warrior was blissful, and feeling lucky: they were not being challenged by a fire or flood path / which seemed totally someone else’s problem / until our daily heat index . . went completely over-the-top of what humans can safely function in / and we went helplessly from a Heat Advisory – to an Extreme Heat Advisory, day after day.

yeah: ‘sunny-side-up’ – is not the word, just one week later.

more like: feel the heat !! the sun is consuming us, and whose fault – is that ?

though, still a big part of me / is reading this sun doll / ceramic doodle . . – as ‘joyful’. even if that’s just – nostalgic ?
or, wishful ?
the sun’s dance – is a wonderful thing / it’s our climate that has changed.

OPEN TODAY – SUN AUG 8 / 1 – 5 PM

what ?
doesn’t everybody have a ‘sunny-side up’ / doll collection ?!!

DAN MANDELBAUM – ‘MIGHT BE THE LAST SHOW’
JULY 14 – AUG 22, 2021
MARVIN GARDENS, 1534 DECATUR ST., RIDGEWOOD, NY 11385
HRS: SUN / 1-5 PM
OR BY APPT ONLY


IMAGE VIA MARVIN GARDENS GALLERY

DAN MANDELBAUM . . . clay figure.
looks to be smallish, but hefty. looking like it has some grit & some weight / very hot fired & extremely well glazed . . it has the shimmer of watercolor. and a dance of playfulness.
definite more cosmic – in mind-set / as opposed to . . deep hippie.
I’m wondering how it remains balanced on the pedestal. is it attached ?

DAN MANDELBAUM, ‘Chromaric Figure’, 2021.
glazed ceramic / 21 x 14 x 9 in.

Brooklyn-based, DAN MANDELBAUM . . graduated from PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN, NY. BFA / 2016.
see: DAN MANDELBAUM – ARTIST PORTFOLIO WEBSITE