Ceramics Club

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8 from 6-8pm.

White Columns is excited to present our third project with Ceramics Club, CC 2052. This fundraising exhibition will open on Saturday, November 8 from 6 – 8pm, and be on view at White Columns from November 8 – December 20. During the show over 500 ceramics will be available for sale, alongside a new limited-edition T-shirt. All proceeds from sales will be donated by Ceramics Club to the non-profit organizations New York Cares, Make the Road, City Harvest, Project Eats, Food Bank for NYC, Brooklyn Rescue Mission Urban Harvest Center, Ali Forney Center, Covenant House, The Door, Greenwich House Pottery, and NYPL.

Like Ceramics Club’s previous presentations at White Columns in 2015 and 2022, all artworks are presented and sold anonymously, and the exhibition will empty as the ceramics are purchased and removed.* The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of events at the gallery including a poetry reading, a queer speed cruising event, a video screening and more.

Ceramics Club is an informal association of artists who meet irregularly at the Greenwich Pottery House in the West Village. It was founded in 2007 by artists Trisha Baga and Pam Lins at The Cooper Union, as a group interested in using ceramics as a way to “socially interact, make material, collaborate, and see what happens from there.” Ceramics Club “models itself on propositions gleaned from amateur ‘clubs’ that in organizing, were interested in dismantling and opposing professionalism – withdrawing distinctions regarding quality, institutions, representations, etc.”

Since 2015 Ceramics Club has been partnering with non-profit arts organizations to present fundraising events and exhibitions, where ceramic artworks created by the members of Ceramics Club are sold to benefit charitable organizations. Ceramics Club combines the collective making of objects with fundraising, performance, craft, community, and comedy. CC has had shows and fundraising events at White Columns, MoMA PS1, Greenwich House Pottery, A.I.R. Gallery, and more.

CC 2052 includes works by: Ruby Aiyo Gerber, Lauren Anderson, True Arizola-Lyons, Colleen Asper, Fia Backström, Trisha Baga, Homer Baga, Zimra Beiner, Charlotte Berg, Elisa Bergel Melo, Ama Birch, Jasmine Bowman, Jared Buckhiester, Jade Byers, Delia Cadman, Tova Carlin, Madeline Casteel, Felix Chan, Nicholas Chiarella, Deville Cohen, Caroline David, Maxine de las Pozas, Lucky DeBellevue, Molly Dektar, Erin Dougherty, Hazar Elatrash, Jan Erbelding, Rochelle Feinstein, Marley Freeman, Lizzy Gabay, Devyn Galindo, Lukas Geronimas, Julian Gewirtz, Shemona Goldman, Sam Gordon, Joanne Greenbaum, Zoe Hamersly, Nate Heiges, Jeffrey Heiman, Dmitri Hertz, Brooke Holm, Adrien Howard, Maite Iribarren Vazquez, Jacob Jackmauh, Nele Jäger, Lotus L. Kang, Manal Kara, James Kerley, Kathryn Kerr, Elisabeth Kley, Rachel Krohn, Kehan Lai, Estefaniá Landesmann, Alma Laprida, Lisa Larson-Walker, Lou Lasserre Gallagher, Miranda Lichtenstein, Sam Linguist, Pam Lins, Weihui Lu, Shea Lynch, Zoe Mackler, Philip Markert, Cameron Martin, Kaitlin McClure, Calla McInnes, Alex McKendry, Matt Merkel Hess, Megan Mi-Ai Lee, Ankita Mishra, Sonya Molansky, Jonas Monka, Carly Moreno, Ulrike Müller, Brandon Ndife, Alex Noble, Nora Normile, Natalie Novoseltseva, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Keira Lynn Phillips, Margaret Pinto, Kelsey Podaras, Dana Qaddah, Ryan Rennie, Halsey Rodman, Marina Rosenfeld, Jeremy Ruiz, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Mallie Sanford, Saki Sato, Michelle Segre, Titania Seidl, Taylor Shields, Amy Sillman, Shelly Silver, Michael Sims, Cameron Sneddon, Michael Smith, Laurel Squadron, Maia Taber Ayerza, Maria VMier, Mary Walling Blackburn, Kristine Woods, Tanika Yezhova, Lu Zhang and many more.

This exhibition is organized by Trisha Baga, Jared Buckhiester, Molly Dektar, Marley Freeman, Dmitri Hertz, Megan Mi-Ai Lee, Pam Lins, and Halsey Rodman. For more information please contact violet@whitecolumns.org.

(*Due to the volume of artworks available, sales will only be made in-person at the gallery and all sales are final.)

Saturday, November 22
4-6pm
A reading organized by Samuel Lang Budin with Catherine Fatima, Malvika Jolly, Clara Joy, and Casper Lee.

Saturday, December 6
4-6pm
Are you ready for love? Queer Speed Cruising (featuring legal husband Lily Marotta and licensed domestic partner Alex Schmidt) is back to help you catch feelings, while sending resources to those in need. Please RSVP to rsvp@whitecolumns.org.

Saturday, December 13
4-6pm
A reading with Charles Bernstein and Ama Birch, presented on the occasion of Ama Birch’s solo exhibition at White Columns, on view concurrently with Ceramics Club’s installation.

Saturday, December 20
11am-6pm
Final day extravaganza with a video screening with work by Trisha Baga and a book launch by Halsey Rodman. 

For further information about this exhibition contact: violet@whitecolumns.org

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am to 6pm.