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Sybaris Shows
Ceramics, Fiber Art
The Sybaris Gallery has
opened its fall season with a
show featuring the ceramic
work of Philip Cornelius and
the fiber sculpture of Ferne
Jacobs.
Most of Mr. Cornelius' ear-
ly works consisted of large
stoneware vessels, often lidd-
ed, with hard-edged, architec-
tonic shapes decorated with
various patterns and the re-
curring motif of the salaman-
der. In 1970, while he was
making some large platters, a
thin slab of residue stoneware
came loose from the platter
bat. He cut open his paper cof-
fee cup and, using it as a
template, constructed an
identical cup from the paper-
thin stoneware.
Mr. Cornelius continued to
work with thinware and ex-
tended his technique to char-
coal firings with porcelain. In
this medium, he made whim-
sical teapot extrapolations
loosely based on World War I
tanks and aircraft with
vestigial spouts, handles and
lids.
Ferne Jacobs fell in love
with the tactile qualities of
fiber and thread, and with the
arduous, time-honored pro-
cess of weaving. The result,
some 25 years later, is a body
of work composed of delicate
hand-woven sculptures. By
elaborating on ancient
basket-weaving techniques,
Ms. Jacobs creates biomor-
phic forms that address tradi-
tional 20th-century
sculptural concerns of weight,
H volume, texture and line, yet
remain somehow spiritually
.- aligned to the definition of
basket as container.
Ms. Jacobs continues to use
the ancient techniques of coil-
ing and twining with natural
fiber. Her newest forms with
their ribbon-like spirals and
undulating curves are much
more organic.
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