The Mahler Fine Art is excited to host Potter, Daniel Johnston's Site-Specific Installation of Large Pots at The Mahler September 15th through October 20th with an Opening Reception with Artist's Talk, Thursday, September 15th kick-off to SPARKcon.
 
Johnston's site-specific conceptual Installation houses over 30 large pots in a structure evoking a rural shrine, teahouse or the shell of a massive kiln. The plank and board structure allows light to softly illuminate the glaze of the pots while creating shadow and line across the surroundings. The experience is one of beauty, peace and reverence.
 
Daniel will be constructing the plank and board shelter in The Mahler Fine Art Gallery the week of September 12th. Upon completion, visitors will be able to enter the shelter and view Daniel's large pots measuring between 3ft to 4ft. The experience is as if one has walked into the kiln and is surrounded by the beauty and peacefulness of Daniel's craft.
 
Johnston's installation at The Mahler will also be a SPARKcon event in conjunction with artSPARK, further opening the experience to an even greater audience.

Excerpt from Daniel's Installation statement: "The environments I create for the pots are very much about the places we call home, the temporary structures we rest in and that for our own psychological well-being we think of as permanent. We construct buildings - objects, if we are being objective. We call some of them Home, we call some of them Work. We, as humans, fundamentally need the security of the structure to exist. The structures I make have as much to do with this sense of security as with the vulnerability of the actual impermanence of architecture and our own existence. When I built my first house, I realized that at the moment I laid the first board on the foundation blocks, the decaying process had begun. Putting my ceramic vessels in a temporary architectural space is much like placing them in the houses we live in, surrounding the permanence of the human spirit with an ephemeral structure.
From the way my viewers move into and through the space, to the relationship created between the architectural materials and the clay, to the way light lands on and shrouds the pots themselves, I am currently seeking the ability to control the entire experience of the objects in that time and place.

I am seeking ways to collapse my own criterial definitions between Art and Craft, to be able to operate in the realm of both, but without the psychological restrictions of these labels".

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