Exhibition Opening | Tony Macias: Terra Firma
Opening Party
Tony Macias: Terra Firma
Join MOWA for the opening of Terra Firma, an exhibition from Milwaukee-based multi-media artist Tony Macias on Friday, March 6 at MOWA | DTN inside Saint Kate—The Arts Hotel. Currently, his focus is in electric-kiln low-fired and American raku ceramics. Influenced by the energy of the Abstract Expressionist Ceramic movement, Macias’s work draws from Mexican and Native American art traditions as well as Korean and Japanese vessel forms. In Terra Firma, much of Macias’s work speaks of the natural world and the common origin story that unites us all. Working with primal materials—clay and heat—he fashions large, circular wall pieces with irregular edges in warm natural colors, often resembling geological strata or the remains of unearthed fossils.