The Human Condition: The Stephen and Pamela Hootkin Collection Sept. 2014 | Page 14

THEATER OF THE FIGURE
Ceramics and the Art Collection of Stephen and Pamela Hootkin
BY GARTH CLARK
The assembly of works shown in The Human Condition: The Stephen and
Pamela Hootkin Collection of Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture is a snapshot
in the ceramic movement from the mid-eighties: its ambitions, its boundarybreaking desires, and specific aesthetic journeys within that movement
are captured with hot passion, insight, intuition, and aesthetic rigor.

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