Clay Sphere
33.02 cms x 30.48 cms x 27.94 cms (13 ins x 12 ins x 13 ins)
Lot offered for sale by Saskatchewan NAC, Regina at the auction event "Saskatchewan, Canadian And International Art" held on Sat, May 29, 2021.
Lot 105
Lot 105
Estimate: CAD $600 - $900
Realised: CAD $165
Realised: CAD $165
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Received as a gift from the artist to current Regina collector.
Notes:
Saskatchewan NAC bio: Ruth Chambers was born in 1960 in Toronto, Ontario. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design (1983) and received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Regina in 1994. Since then, she has taught in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. Chambers' studies have also taken her to the Sun Valley Centre for the Arts and Humanities in Sun Valley, Idaho, and the University of Guelph in Ontario. Chambers's installation work incorporates a variety of media, including found objects and audio-visual media, and often includes ceramics. Her works explore the human body, medicine, architecture, and notions of the material and immaterial, among other subjects. Since the early 1980s, her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States and in Tokyo, Japan at the Itabashi Art Museum. Chambers is a founding member of the Regina-based artists' collective Petri's Quadrille (1997-2006). She is a contributing editor of the anthology Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice (2007). Chambers lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she is a professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.
Received as a gift from the artist to current Regina collector.
Notes:
Saskatchewan NAC bio: Ruth Chambers was born in 1960 in Toronto, Ontario. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design (1983) and received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Regina in 1994. Since then, she has taught in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. Chambers' studies have also taken her to the Sun Valley Centre for the Arts and Humanities in Sun Valley, Idaho, and the University of Guelph in Ontario. Chambers's installation work incorporates a variety of media, including found objects and audio-visual media, and often includes ceramics. Her works explore the human body, medicine, architecture, and notions of the material and immaterial, among other subjects. Since the early 1980s, her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States and in Tokyo, Japan at the Itabashi Art Museum. Chambers is a founding member of the Regina-based artists' collective Petri's Quadrille (1997-2006). She is a contributing editor of the anthology Utopic Impulses: Contemporary Ceramics Practice (2007). Chambers lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she is a professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Regina.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.