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Overthrown: Clay Without Limits

Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012, by Lindsey Westbrook

Overthrown: Clay Without Limits
Denver Art Museum, 2011
Paperback, 2 volumes in a slipcase, 64 and 64 pages, $25

Graphic Design faculty member Bob Aufuldish designed this two-volume exhibition catalogue that accompanies the 2011 exhibition Overthrown: Clay Without Limits at the Denver Art Museum. Most of the 25 artists featured in the show made works especially for Overthrown and many are in direct dialogue with the Frederick C. Hamilton building architecture, moving beyond the pedestal to the wall, the floor, and even the ceiling. They break boundaries that are physical, technological, conceptual, and spatial. Working in all scales, from architecturally expansive to almost impossibly small, the artists in Overthrown employ 21st-century technology hand-in-hand with standard modeling and molding techniques. Some push the forms of functional objects. Others push the limits of fragility. They take risks that draw on material chemistry and maverick kiln techniques. Some of their works include not only clay, but also found objects such as metal, plastic, and abandoned industrial materials. Available via mail order from the museum shop: 720.865.4488.