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<\/a><\/p>\nRACHEL DOMM, exhibits her whimsical clay ‘treats’ on the ESSEX FLOWERS table, Casual Art Fair<\/a>, small, interesting shapes – very lovely to behold, and actually to ‘lift up’ & hold, handle \/ they twisted the very ‘informed’ thin lines . . . between insider \/ outsider art . . interestingly – they were also very on the ‘low-down’, unlike most of the ceramic work I’ve seen recently, which also joyfully criss-crossed the many lines between high and low art, serious concept, basic functionality, & social commentary, (Salon 94: ‘Satan Ceramics’ is a good example) – Rachel’s whimsical works were made of the more basic, low-fire clay medium, rather than the higher end \/ higher fire . . porcelain. but even so, as you can see, her conceptual starting point, and the finished shapes, and especially their multi-colored shiny, eccentric glazed surfaces – were quite . . delightful.<\/p>\n JEFFREY TRANCHELL, got it exactly right, when he wrote of Rachel Domm: . . “her ceramics are based on uncommon ‘snack’ shapes (crackers, pretzels, chips), and through this tonque-in-cheek vernacular<\/strong>, Domm finds forms that are immediately both abstract and literal.” PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MORE, MERRY PRANKSTERS . . at the fair !! RACHEL DOMM, exhibits her whimsical clay ‘treats’ on the ESSEX FLOWERS table, Casual Art Fair, Hester Street Fair venue – on the Lower East Side, NYC. Oct 2, 2016. with her is JEFFREY TRANCHELL, founding member of ESSEX FLOWERS – who curated the Essex Flowers’ fair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30623"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30656,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30623\/revisions\/30656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHester Street Fair venue – on the Lower East Side, NYC. Oct 2, 2016.
\nwith her is JEFFREY TRANCHELL, founding member of ESSEX FLOWERS – who curated the Essex Flowers’ fair offering.
\nbehind them . . are my 2 repaired vintage crib quilt projects – more on those, next post !!
\nps: #puppylove – that’s Winnie . . on Jeffrey’s lap.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nRachel Domm’s clay pieces were fun, even joyful.
\nhurray for joyful . . in an often dark, harsh & brooding world. including the art world.
\nincluding the millions of years old Great Barrier Reef – dying. <\/p>\n
\nfine art vs. street smart \/ artisan workmanship, which in this case I would say definitely came down hard on: the fine art side of . . hand-made. there’s a intellectual ‘joker’ . . behind the craft.
\nand, even though definitely tweaking more to art than craft – their individual, one-of-a-kind hand-wrought hand-crafted nature: equals . . skills.
\nthough I would never classify them as simply: craft. no way !!
\nespecially within the variety of the surfaces, overall glossy vs . . those speckled ones, hurray !!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe advance pr, said her ceramic works were based on ‘snack’ shapes, so I was expecting much smaller pieces, so much for the ambiguous dimensions of digital photography – because the pieces were at least 4 times the size of their reference points, and therefore quite pretty to gaze upon, but especially . . to hold, and set down & gaze upon. so Shakespearean, medieval fair, or what ?!! <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI think – this is a riff on a Ritz cracker ?
\nthe relative ‘thick & thinness’ of the pieces – was a big plus, very sensory. sensual. very pleasing. tactile.
\nlike holding a ‘game’ in your hand. or even a metaphoric . . ‘no words’ – book.<\/p>\n
\nthe Jackson Pollock of . . crackers ?<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthe reverse side was so interesting too, for laying the clay – bare.
\nyin & yang . . comes to mind.
\nthe ‘holes’ are also a big . . visual ‘hit’.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nthey were really quite wonderful, and ‘wondering’ . . and ‘wandering’, if you can follow . . your imagination.
\nI mean, come on – it was like holding the primordial world – in your hand from the back, and cutting edge NYC flipped – over . . . raw vs glazed \/ primitive vs production.
\nall the while kinda – cracking an art world . . joke.
\nthey were also priced between $20 – $85.
\nso . . no brainer. <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nyes, I would say that is quite a treat-ful . . handful !!
\njust downright . . smart, and . . lovely.
\nand, curious.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nread about & see more of her work: RACHEL DOMM portfolio website<\/a><\/p>\n