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Exhibitions
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Not Too Late: A Benefit Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with Art into Acres 3 May - 7 June 2024This May, Charles Moffett is pleased to present a special group exhibition, Not Too Late, featuring new and recent work by 21 artists and organized in collaboration with Art into Acres. A long-term philanthropic partner of the gallery, Art into Acres was founded by artist and conservationist Haley Mellin in 2017 as a nonprofit initiative that transforms the proceeds from the sale of donated artworks into acres of conserved land. Through this special exhibition, the gallery strives to raise collective awareness and catalyze the fundraising for Indigenous-led land conservation. In a testament to the gallery’s steadfast commitment to this cause, Charles Moffett is honored that all ten of the gallery’s represented artists have donated their work to the exhibition; and is deeply appreciative of the generous contributions of eleven artists with whom the gallery has had close and meaningful ties throughout its first six years.Read more -
Bari Ziperstein
Set Patterns 24 February - 1 April 2023Charles Moffett is pleased to present Set Patterns, a solo exhibition of new mixed media, ceramic-based sculptures by Chicago-born, Los Angeles-based artist Bari Ziperstein. This marks the artist’s second solo...Read more -
Artists for NADA
Supporting the NADA Gallery Relief Fund 17 April - 10 May 2020Read more -
Bari Ziperstein
Patterns of Propaganda 1 February - 23 March 2019Charles Moffett is pleased to present Patterns of Propaganda, a one-person exhibition of recent works by Los Angeles-based artist Bari Ziperstein. The exhibition is Ziperstein's first one-person show in New York.Read more
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Biography
Bari Ziperstein in her studio, Los Angeles, CA (US). Photo: Yoshihiro Makino
Bari Ziperstein (b. 1978, Chicago; works in Los Angeles. MFA CalArts 2004, BFA Ohio University 2000.) Ziperstein's mixed media, ceramic-based sculpturepractice engages ideas of consumerism, propaganda, and the built environment. Ziperstein is noted for her ongoing investigation of Soviet-era textile design and patterns. One such body of works are her highly technical figurative ceramicsculptures that reference 1980s propaganda posters from the Eastern Bloc, which she sourced specifically for their patronizing messages about domestic morality, alcoholism, motherhood, and the place of women insociety. Ziperstein considers it to be a distinct feminist gesture that she has offered the propaganda a new tactile presence, interrogating the relationship between craft, the home, and femininity by leaning into ceramics' historical position as a craft practice. Ziperstein's practice is materially experimental, such as a new body of flat ceramic works first presented by Charles Moffett in Summer 2020. Her objects and sculptural tableaux reflect her interest in the political dimensions of capitalist economies, examining American aspiration through a historical lens.
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