LOVEED FINE ARTS
CONNECTS
CERAMICS & ARCHITECTURE

 


Ceramic Tiles,
Shin Sang Ho,
Clayarch Gimhae Museum, 2006
(Closeup)


Loveed Fine Arts, specializing for 20 years
in contemporary works of art, announces our commitment to ceramics and architecture. Several of our leading artists are involved in public and private commissions combining two traditions: ceramics and architecture.

International focus on this field of art is on
the rise as technological progress allows new and innovative techniques to be applied in the development of modern architecture.

Shin Sang Ho’s newest contribution to this
field is the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in
Gimhae, Korea. Ole Lislerud, ceramic artist
and architect, has produced more than 40
architectural or site specific projects.
Margie Hughto’s subway installation on
Cortlandt Street below the World Trade
Center survived 9/11. Her installation at the
Museum of Natural History subway station
combines an artist’s commission with
architectural integrity.



Shin Sang Ho
Clayarch Gimhae Museum,
Gimhae, Korea, 2006

Ole Lislerud, Tilde proposal,
Telenor Corporate Headquarters,
Oslo, Norway


Margie Hughto, Cortlandt Street Station,
“Trade, Treasure, and Travel”,
New York City, 1997

 

 

Several of the artists we represent undertake public and private commissions. We very much welcome your inquiries since the range of commissioned works vary tremendously. Margie Hughto, for instance, has recently completed several private, corporate and public commissions over the past eighteen months. Her work - the ceramic tablets and the large wall reliefs - range in size and shape from small pieces to complex installations of architectural scale. Often the pieces are designed to be site specific and include particular themes relating to the region or building. Her ceramic reliefs and tile murals are primarily abstract although images of nature will materialize through imprints of marine life, plants, fossils and various stones. The artist, after careful evaluation of the project will conceive a miniature model that will serve as the basis for the final piece. This process allows a client's unique specifications to be met.

Examples of Public Commissions by Margie Hughto

As described by Cynthia Torelli, the murals conceived for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) at the Cortlandt Street Station titled Trade, Treasure, Travel are "a glittering panorama of twelve interconnected ceramic tile murals in different sizes and shapes, ranging from three to 30 feet in length. The colorful three-dimensional ceramic reliefs were fabricated in Hughto's studio in Jamesville, New York. 

Cortland Street Subway Station 
Completed May 1999
New York, New York
The murals are decorated with a panoply of objects symbolizing centuries of worldwide exploration and trade on land and sea. She has included many familiar manmade objects-buffalo nickels, ancient coins, compasses, keys, swords, trolley cars, a steamship passing under the Brooklyn Bridge-as well as natural and mythological creatures such as fish, turtles, camels, horses, lions and griffins. A huge rose compass based on an ancient celestial chart features a winged horse, a sphinx and a goddess, while a bull and bear compete as dominant images. The irregular edges of the murals lend a weathered, ancient quality to the artworks." 
Seasons  
12.5 - 30 x 30 ft.
1985
Niagra Frontier Transportation Authority
Buffalo, New York
A perfect example of a tile wall commission. (flat surface)
Examples of Private Commissions by Margie Hughto
Ceramic Wall Relief Installation & (Detail)
32 x 50 in.
Private Residence, Arizona

Primordial Composition
2001
Glazed Ceramic
New York, New York
private commission in a Fifth Avenue Residence