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Tradition to Contemporary


  • Goldmark Cultural Center 13999 Goldmark Drive Dallas, Texas 75240 United States (map)

The Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery is proud to present Tradition to Contemporary, a group exhibition featuring ceramic works by 8 Chilean artists, curated by Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal.

The exhibition is on display in the Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery from 3 November, 2023 to 8 December, 2023.

An exhibition reception will be held in the Milde Gallery on Saturday, 11 November 2023, from 1pm - 3pm. The exhibition’s curator, Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal, will be present to respond to questions and comments about the featured artwork and artists.

All of the proceeds from the sales of the exhibited artworks go directly to the Chilean artists.

About the Exhibition

“Tradition to Contemporary” showcases works by Chilean ceramic artists Pilar Baranda, Isadora Correa, Isabel Izquierdo, Ruth Krauskopf, Teresita Marin, Clemente McKay, Vivian Rosa, and Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal. The exhibition is curated by Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal, the recipient of the Goldmark Cultural Center’s 2023 Anthony Okonofua International Artist Residency and a founder and director of the Centro de Arte Curaumilla.

The works featured in the exhibition are broadly representative of the Chilean ceramics tradition, with an emphasis on sublime functional ware over purely decorative works.

All of the pieces in the exhibition were brought from Chile to Dallas by curator Rosenthal, with the aim of facilitating an educational, professional, and cultural exchange between North Texas ceramic artists and their counterparts in Chile.

About the Curator

Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal is a ceramist and teacher in Santiago, Chile. She studied geography and ceramics in Chile, France, and the United States. Between 2004 and 2008, Marilu taught ceramics classes at Huara-Huara studio in Santiago, and until now, Marilu teaches ceramics and glazes in her studio.  She has also worked as a studio assistant in the ceramics department at Anderson Ranch Art Center for the 1998-2004 summer workshop seasons and at the Good Hope ceramic studio in Jamaica.

Marilu Pelusa Rosenthal has been an Artist in Residence at the Turgua Group in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado.

She participated as an international curator and member of the Jury 7 Biennial of Ceramics from Gyeonggi, Korea, in 2013. She has exhibited her work in the United States, Brazil, Korea, and Chile. She is a founding member and Director of the Curaumilla Art Center in Chile for workshops and residencies and to have a multi-cultural exchange for work in ceramics.

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