I Couldn't Sleep Last Night A Going Solo Award Winner Tanner Martine's Solo Ceramic Exhibition

My Thoughts

As the first all ceramics show that I curated I was quite nervous and in awe of the work presented to me. Tanner Martine's work deals with the semblance of how humanity's impact on the planet invades now even in the dark. The work spans these relationships of nocturnal and diurnal animals as night time creeps on the land. This exhibition deals with simplistic coloring and repetitive forms as a way to mimic the feeling of falling asleep, and when visitors came to see the show the lull of a dream was what I envisioned. 
The first thing the viewer is met with is a simplistic and bright ceramic pot, the moth atop it a reminder of what else is to come. The other sibling pots, all monochromatic are lined up against the wall in a rhythmic pattern to imitate the natural path of a moth. The three installation pieces surround these  simplistic pots are all monochromatic, dealing with separate interpretation of black and circular forms; daybreak, dusk, and deepest night. 
This exhibition felt like a trance while putting it together, and though there was a lot of open space on the walls compared to earlier shows I had put on this once certainly felt the most  satisfying to walk through at the time.