Imagined Vessels Opening Program
Left to right: Maria Porges, Mashups: Grouping #6 - Triplia, 2023, Pala, 2024, Achaia #7, 2024
Conversation with the Artists
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 5:00 - 6:15pm
McLaren Conference Center, Room 252
Followed by a reception in Thacher Gallery
Join the artists for a panel discussion about their work presented in Imagined Vessels. Facilitated by students in the MA Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum, artists will discuss their studio practices, influences and inspirations, and the ways in which their use of clay investigates and celebrates cultural hybridity.
About the artists:
Paz G is a self-taught ceramic artist who combines ceramic form with messages from their ancestors to create visual songs and poems.
Liz Hernández is an Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist who uses her work to explore, blend, and shift the boundaries between reality and fiction.
Cathy Lu adopts a contemporary and personal perspective on the legacy of Chinese art objects to disrupt collective beliefs about what it means to be Asian American.
Maria Porges is a Bay Area artist and writer whose work has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions over the last 35 years.
Maryam Yousif is a San Francisco-based ceramic artist who uses art to define her identity by forging connections between contemporary and ancient culture.
Imagined Vessels: Ceramics by Paz G, Liz Hernández, Cathy Lu, Maria Porges and Maryam Yousif is on view through Feb. 23, 2025. Located in the Gleeson Library-Geschke Center, the Thacher Gallery is free and open to the public from 12-6pm daily.