The fruits of an on-going collaboration, Sculptures in Love with Architecture presents a series of small scale ceramic pieces that reflect the artists thoughts on the forms, concepts, history and humor in architecture and the built environment.

The title references the book Architectures in Love, an enigmatic sketchbook/journal by John Hejduk that has been a shared influence on both artists. Many of the works were conceived with Hejduk's writing in mind, particularly his investigations of the emotional capacities of architecture. From there the circle of allowable inspirations grew to include other architects and artists whom the pair look to: Félix Candela, Eduardo Chillida, Eladio Dieste, Louis Kahn, Mies van der Rohe, and Tony Smith to mention a few. Often, the process of making began with the mailing/emailing of drawings, notes and models back and forth between the artist's studios, at times located in Boston, Chicago or Dallas. The forms that emerged from this method of communication explore and exploit the properties of ceramics - the actual making incorporates the range from elemental technology like hands and sandpaper to advanced prototyping and mold making.

To inquire about an artist selected grouping of SiLwA works or individual pieces please contact the gallery. Specific dimensions are not listed, but are available; all works fit within a 3"-4" cube.

VIEW installation (available July 5)

Pyramid Scheme, Tom Lauerman, porcelain, 2010

Tom Lauerman was born in Chicago in 1974 and grew up in New Jersey.  In 1992 he worked as an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York.  He received a BFA from SMU Meadows School of Art in Dallas Texas in 1996, concentration in painting.  He helped found The Shamrock Hotel Studios in downtown Dallas before departing for graduate school at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI where he received an MFA in 2002.  In 2001 he was the recipient of the Horizon Award from the American Craft Museum, NY.  After graduation he co-founded Telegraph, an artist collective active from 2004 to the present.  Tom moved to Chicago in 2003, where he taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College.  Recently he has returned to Texas as a Visiting Lecturer in Ceramics and Sculpture at SMU.   Tom's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in South Korea, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Peel Gallery in Houston, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and Lemberg Gallery in Detroit.  He has been the recipient of residencies and grants from the Kohler Arts/Industry program, Pilchuck Glass School, Illinois Arts Council, and ClayArch Gimhae Museum in South Korea.  His work is in the collections of The Museum of Arts and Design, NY, Cranbrook Art Museum, Kohler Corporation, ClayArch Gimhae Museum, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, the Chicago Children's Museum, and the Robert L. Pfannebecker Collection.