Alice Mackler
April 24 - June 19, 2021
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Press Release
Alice Mackler’s fifth solo exhibition at Kerry Schuss Gallery features nine ceramic sculptures along with a small selection of paintings all created during the last two years. With her new sculptures Mackler continues to focus on the theme that has animated her work for more than over seven decades: the female figure, which she renders in expanded sculptural complexity and larger scale.
This exhibition coincides with release of the new monograph on her work published by New York Consolidated and Gregory Miller & Co. in association with Kerry Schuss Gallery featuring a forward by Matthew Higgs, an essay by Kelly Taxter, and an interview by Joanne Greenbaum.
In the interview when asked by Greenbaum, "I've heard you remark about how this is a very happy time for you, and this is the best you've felt about being an artist. Can you talk a bit about this?" Mackler, who is now 89 years old responded, "Alice is doing what she wants to do, making beautiful works of art".
Alice Mackler (b. 1931, New York, NY) lives and works in New York. Mackler began making artwork in high school in Williamstown, MA and later attended the Art Students League New York, studying painting with Will Barnett from 1952-54. More than thirty years later, Mackler returned to her arts education and received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY in 1988. In 1999, Mackler began working with clay at Greenwich House Pottery, where she was awarded the Residency and Fellowship program in 2016 and where she continues to work today. In 2013, Mackler had her first solo exhibition hosted by Kerry Schuss Gallery, NY, and in 2018, kaufmann repetto presented a solo exhibition of Mackler's ceramics in Milan, IT.
Mackler's work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including those at James Fuentes Gallery, NY (2013); Kerry Schuss Gallery, NY; Klaus von Nichtssagend, NY (2014); The Box, Los Angeles; the Jewish Museum, NY (2015); Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2015); White Columns, NY; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ; Maccarone, NY (2016); Unclebrother, Hancock, NY (2017); and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2018); among others.