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John Gill exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery

John Gill is featured in a four person exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery entitled RGB, with Daniel Gordon, Emily Mullin & Ettore Sottass (1917-2007). The exhibition opened on June 30 at 245 Tenth Avenue in the New York City gallery.


John Gill is featured in a four person exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery entitled RGB, with Daniel Gordon, Emily Mullin & Ettore Sottass (1917-2007). The exhibition opened on June 30 at 245 Tenth Avenue in the New York City gallery.

The exhibition is centered around building, construction, and layering. Gill's work in the exhibition are Triptych vases which fit together like puzzle pieces to create one large piece. About the exhibition John's work in the exhibition, Yossi Milo states:

"A formidable presence in the landscape of contemporary American ceramic art, John Gill (b. 1949; Renton, WA) builds vivacious vessels from slabs of clay, arranging them to construct scaffolded levels of protruding angles and swelling, oblique forms. For this exhibition, the artist presents a new body of vases, ewers, and sake bottles that emanate the distinctive quality of a Manhattan skyscraper. Their vertical expanses and soaring spouts recall the prismatic exteriors of urban high-rises, while their colorful pop embodies the youthful, subversive character of postmodern design. With intuitive expertise, Gill centers his practice around chance, approaching his craft with a spirit of spontaneity, innovation, and play."