Faneuil Library Art Gallery
August 6 – September 7, 2013
Public reception – August 6
Unbound Visual Arts, Inc., the new non-profit incorporated to enliven the creative economy, is sponsoring By The Sea: Ceramic Art by Ray Ryan and Michelle McClurg. The artwork in the exhibition was created out of a passion for the sea, the beach, sea shells and clay by two Allston residents. Together, working at the Harvard Ceramics Studio in Allston, they have constructed a series of clay creatures of the sea that carry forth their interest and their curiosity with underwater life. McClurg recalls digging at the beaches as child on Lake Erie and Ryan was long ago fascinated by the underwater life in the Pacific Ocean. Michelle likes “recreating the memories of walking on the beach with the sea and the sand swirling over shells and other indigenous aquatic splendor.” Ray’s fish are “an evolution of imagination and wondering what life is [like] deep below the surface of the sea.”
Michelle McClurg, a Founding Member of Unbound Visual Arts, is a resident of Allston and has been utilizing the studios at the Harvard Ceramics Program in Allston for nearly 30 years. She also received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) with a focus in Ceramics from Boston University.
Ray Ryan, a member of Unbound Visual Arts, lived on the the west coast for twenty years and that sparked a fascination with underwater volcanoes and deep sea creatures. He creates his clay works at the Harvard Ceramics Studio in Allston with Michelle. He currently resides in Allston.