Porcelain Matters: Retelling, Recasting
A Conversation with Arlene Shechet (artist) and Charlotte Vignon (curator, Sèvres Extraordinaire!)

Bard Graduate Center welcomes acclaimed American sculptor Arlene Shechet for an evening of conversation with Sèvres Extraordinaire! curator Charlotte Vignon. Shechet’s 2024 exhibition, Girl Group, at Storm King, featured six monumental outdoor works as well as an indoor museum exhibition that garnered universal praise. The artist is known for her experiments with materials, form, and motion and has explored three hundred years of ceramic history through her art and many curatorial projects. In 2016 Shechet curated with Vignon an exhibition at the Frick Collection entitled Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection, presenting works made during a residency at the Meissen factory along with eighteenth-century Meissen porcelain works from the Frick Collection. Shechet is working on a forthcoming Frick Collection Diptych project featuring Sèvres’s Vase Japon.

September 10 at 6pm
38 West 86th Street, BGC Lecture Hall