Click below to read the review of Niles Wallace's show by writer Carol Knowles.
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Through June 30th
Some of the most sensual and iconic works of Niles Wallace's career are currently on view in his Gallery Fifty Six exhibition "Sticks and Stones." Dozens of deliberately misshapen stark-white ceramic bowls fill the top shelves of Wallace's 8-foot-tall Collection Cabinet. Fired with a single glaze, Wallace's colors are sometimes as crisp as the white and black halves of a yin-yang symbol, sometimes as nuanced as tea stains against hairline cracks in a porcelain cup, sometimes as sleek as the petal of a rose.
On the bottom shelves, Wallace places one plastic container inside another and warps both bowls with a heat gun. These surprisingly beautiful bowls writhe, reach out, and fold back upon themselves — sometimes tortuously, sometimes with delicate grace. These asymmetrical, shape-shifting works of art speak to every aspect of the creative process — ideas gestating, art and life evolving, and imagination as malleable as molten plastic.
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