Fall 2024 Exhibition: Elaborate

Join us in celebrating ceramic ornamentation through a group of elegant and intricate works by Marissa Y Alexander Marc Egan Kaley Flowers Julie Moon and Lindsay Montgomery. Their work is the ultimate antidote to Adolf Loos’ famous (infamous?) 1913 essay “Ornament is Crime” in which he characterized ornament as “degenerate.”

“Elaborate” is a descriptor (a complicated arrangement of parts and details) and an action (to develop or explain something in detail) and both are at play in the exhibition. The artists’ aesthetic influences whether abstract or figurative merge with contemporary issues and ideas using decoration as an investigative framework. Their works are effusive confrontational expressive and non-apologetic – espousing more-is-more and kicking Mr. Loos to the curb.

Curated by Melanie Egan Director of Craft & Design at Harbourfront Centre.

Dates: September 13 – December 29

Host or Publisher Harbourfront Centre