Potter Ming Yuen-Schat to Exhibit @ American Fine Craft Show

Potter Ming Yuen-Schat, Mings Monsters, whose studio is in Fort Greene, three jewelers and three furniture makers, also with Brooklyn studios, are among 90 exhibitors at the fifth American Fine Craft Show Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum, November 18-19, 2017.

Born in Taiwan, Yuen-Schat expresses his interest in the interplay between modernism and wabi-sabi. “As an artistic form,” wrote the potter on his website, “wabi-sabi embraces that which is imperfect, asymmetrical, and deliberately crude, which is diametrically opposed to the influence of commercialized modernism which values slick, high-tech, machine-made objects and considers imperfection to be a defect.” Ming, who has a Masters in Architecture from MIT, describes how he designs and crafts his “monsters,” the bottles, bowls, flower containers, sculptures, trays and vases he makes in his three collections: Jewel, Chalice and Flame. They are “hand-shaped, usually on the wheel, and then altered. Ming’s finger marks are on every monster.” Flames, smoke and ash from a wood kiln paint the pots with color and texture.

Visitors to the show can also take in the magnificent exhibitions at the Museum. Concurrent ones include “Rodin at the Brooklyn Museum: The Body in Bronze,” that opens November 17; “Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt;” “Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo,” and “Arts of Korea.”

For more information visit www.brooklyncraftshow.com.

Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Directions: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org...

Hours: Saturday Nov. 19: 11 am – 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 20: 11 am-6 pm