A small square relief tile sits inside a pale wooden frame. Raised ridges and dots are cut into the clay, with black and white glaze in the boat and wave lines.
Sasha Grigoryan works the relief by hand, and the frame is part of the piece.
Exclusive Sasha works in stoneware and porcelain, building each plate and bowl by hand before the first glaze test. Her relief pieces grow out of the steppe flowers and birds she grew up around in Kazakhstan. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions in Almaty, Bishkek and Tbilisi and is held in several private collections in Europe.
For centuries caravans carried silk, spices and ideas along routes that stretched across Asia toward the Mediterranean.
A group exhibition of ceramics at Focus Gallery in Almaty. The opening night is on 6 November at 18:00, and everyone is welcome to attend.
A solo exhibition by Adam Schwartz. His large painted dishes and bowls show figures that float, climb and tangle in half-remembered landscapes.
Watch the potters at work in the Almaty studio and see new pieces up close.
