The Space Between Reaction and Regulation
IPA Gallery
Sculpture & Three-Dimensional Art
Form that asks to be walked around.
Curator’s Statement
Sculpture, ceramics, and installation.
Three-dimensional work at IPA is admitted for its refusal to flatten.
Mediums included
12 works on view
Emergence
International·Polished Bronze
“Not everything that is becoming looks complete.”
Contemporary Bronze
Almost
International·Carved Stone
“Two hands. An impossible gap.”
Figurative Stone
Vessel of Stories
West Africa·Clay Ceramic
“A vessel is only as important as what it agrees to hold.”
Ceramics
In Motion
International·Carved Wood
“A body carved from a tree is still, in some way, a body still growing.”
Wood Carving
Taking Flight
International·Found Materials & Wire
“Not everything that was discarded was meant to stay discarded.”
Mixed Media
Infinite Form
International·Carved Marble
“Some forms refer to nothing but themselves. And in that, they become everything.”
Abstract Marble
Ancestral Voice
Nigeria·Bronze Sculpture
“Some voices in a life were speaking before we ever arrived.”
Ancestry, Power, Identity
Amber Flow
Hiroshi Tanaka·International·Glass Sculpture
“Some solids remember they used to be liquid.”
Light, Transformation, Organic Form
Dreamtime Stone
Australia·Painted Stone
“Some languages do not need to be translated to be understood.”
Spirituality, Land, Story
Dragon of the Eastern Sea
China·Jade Carving
“The finest carvers do not impose. They listen.”
Mythology, Mastery, Tradition
Serpent Knot
Norway·Wood Carving
“Some things have no ending because they were never meant to.”
Mythology, Craft, History
River of Vessels
Hiroshi Tanaka·Japan·Ceramic Installation
“A community is not a crowd. It is a current.”
Multiplicity, Flow, Handmade
On the Long Horizon
International Partners in Art is being built as a permanent global archive of human expression. Every submission belongs to one or more curated collections so visitors can explore the world through different emotional and artistic lenses.
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Music
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Dance & Movement
Meaning carried by the body.
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The artistry passed hand to hand.
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Writing & Poetry
The sentence that finally says it.
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Film & Storytelling
The story a nervous system needs to see.