Wed 9/28 @ 5:10PM
Ceramicist Eva Kwong is everywhere. Kwong is one of the area’s premiere artists, with an international reputation. She just closed a show at Akron’s Summit Artspace called Love Between the Atoms, featuring ceramic and 3D printed sculptures inspired by natural, organic forms such as cells and seeds, as well as two-dimensionally pieces.
Then just a few weeks ago, she opened a show at Youngstown’s McDonough Museum of Art, called Hybridity. It features her endlessly creative takes on her sculpture practice. It’s composed of hand-built and 3D-printed forms in clay and PLA. She has also provided watercolors by her late husband Kirk Mangus for another show titled What I See.
She’ll be at the museum to give an artist talk discussing her Emergent Bacteria series designed on the computer with Rhino and 3-D printed to generate original forms, which produced the work in Hybridity, part of her long-time fascination with the intersection of art and science in the natural world.
“My work comes from my wonderment of the natural world and where my place may be within it,” says Kwong. “I look for the interconnections between microcosms and macrocosms, between the inner world of my body and the external world I live in.”
The talk is free and open to the public.