Melting Point is Craft Contemporary’s inaugural clay biennial, which marks the intense growth within the field of ceramics over the past two decades. Though clay has historically been used to make functional objects, the ease with which clay can be accessed and manipulated makes it a powerful material for many contemporary artists to explore its…

Los Angeles-based artist Katherine Gray creates conceptual installations of glass that amplify our experience of common glass forms through unusual presentations and dramatic lighting. By exaggerating the physical presence of familiar glass forms, Gray reminds us of the material’s constant presence in our lives and the underlying nostalgia and history often embodied in the domestic…

Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in nature. It has a tensile strength comparable to steel and is an incredibly versatile and enduring building material. For centuries, bamboo has been an important cultural and economic resource in Japan. It has played an essential role in Japan’s artistic heritage, and Japanese bamboo baskets are…

Egyptian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Sherin Guirguis’s practice addresses suppressed histories and their unearthing through Eastern ornamentation, site, and text. Of Thorns and Love is based on the work of Egyptian feminist activist, writer, and publisher Doria Shafik (1908-1975). Shafik transformed Egypt’s political system in the 1940s and ‘50s by leading the movement to secure women’s…

Unnatural Disasters presents a core sampling of works created over the last two decades by Los Angeles-based artist Merion Estes. Estes’s dazzling, and often politically motivated, art grew out of her work in the feminist art movement associated with L.A.’s iconic Woman’s Building and her involvement in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s…

New York-born, Los Angeles-based artist Uzumaki Cepeda is a photographer and fiber sculptor who creates immersive, site-specific installations covered in faux fur. As a first-generation American woman of Dominican heritage, her faux fur tableaux act as soft spaces for black and brown people who feel unprotected by American public life and policies. This installation portrays…