Peter Shire: Tea for Two Hundred

Visual Arts

Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave, Ste G-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404

(310) 586-6488

Santa Monica Museum of Art - CLOSED

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2525 Michigan Ave, Ste G-1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone number (310) 586-6488
From: Saturday, Jan 19, 11:00 am

To: Saturday, Feb 23, 6:00 pm
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Peter Shire: Tea for Two Hundred is an exhibition of giant teapots by the well-known Los Angeles artist Peter Shire, and showcases the artists career-long exploration with the teapot as form.

Tea for Two Hundred highlights eight large-scale teapots, ranging in height from two to six feet tall. These imaginative objects, made of clay, metal, wood, and found materials, are some of Shires most inventive works. They will be installed in a whimsical landscape sparking the imagination with a playful dialog between the viewers bodies and the teapots.

The teapot, an iconic form in the artists work, characterizes Shires spirited aesthetic and distinctive style. Throughout his career, he has continually reinvented the object, using it as an armature to experiment with material, scale, and function. Shires teapots resist categorization and are charming, unwieldy, and fitful in their usefulness and uselessness. The artists singular style encompasses both international and local perspectives, with roots in the Milan-based Memphis group combined with the multitude of influences he has absorbed from living and working in Los Angeles.

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