Jeremy Lepisto
“A Few more Days”
Kiln formed and assembled glass
13” x 24” x 5”
Jeremy Lepisto’s Crate Series represents: “goods that are un-orderable, un-receivable or undeliverable.” The first way Lepisto accomplishes this is to make a paradoxical vessel. Suppose you had a shipping container constructed with glass like Lepisto’s crates? You would immediately find it to be extremely impractical. The container would quickly shattered in transit, (not to mention the huge weight of the glass making it immobile) and the goods contained exposed to the elements or spilled. The second way Lepisto creates the ‘undeliverable’ is to call into question what is being stored in the vessel: Lepisto’s crate series depicts drawings of wheat and mailboxes on the reverse side of the glass sheets he constructs. In this way he confuses the viewer with reflection and transparency, inside and out. Lepisto’s crates explore the psychologically disorienting effects of objects in front and behind planar surfaces which deconstructs the opposition of the terms. The precious and the disposable, the protector and the protected merge in the glass itself.
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Beth Lo
“Chrysanthemum Vase”
White stoneware, underglaze
17.5” x 14” x 14”
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Our JBS Fine Arts Advisory Committee welcomed the JBS community to Art for Breakfast, a morning celebrating art, culture, and connection.
Following a light breakfast, the program in the Newman Auditorium (STAR Building) featured remarks from Head of School Andy Abbott, FAAC chair William Shearburn ’79, and Filipino American artist Ria Unson, whose work is currently featured in the Bonsack Gallery exhibition, Air, Energy, Breath: Works by 7 Contemporary Asian American Artists, on loan from Duane Reed Gallery. She spoke about her cultural heritage and artistic practice.
Following the program, attendees visited the Bonsack Gallery and were encouraged to tour campus and explore additional works from the Permanent Collection.
The morning reflected Burroughs’ ongoing commitment to the arts as a vital part of community life and learning.
