MATERIA Brings BARRO Ceramics Exhibition to Love House NYC

By Janet Mercel on 4.21.23

Sarah Len founded MATERIA, a creative brain trust that includes a magazine, a studio, and a branding and production agency, to amplify art, design, and culture across the Americas. Her global lens brings a focus to the more thoughtful side of artists making things and stretches to wide-reaching corners of the world to do it. 

BARRO, a collective show curated by Len and featuring over 70 unique ceramic pieces spanning traditional, modern, and functional design, is now showing at Love House’s contemporary chic showroom. The exhibition first debuted last November at the new MATERIA STUDIO in Colonia San Rafael, México City, before bringing the one-of-a-kind works to New York, including furniture, objects, lighting, and art from Nick Pourfard, LGS Studio, Krudo Studio, Carlos Matos, Disciplina Studio, Eusebio, Pablo Arellano, Eny Lee Parker, Catherine Dix, and Gianfranco Briceño.

Recently, Len explains, there has been a surge in the popularity of ceramic arts; however, barro (meaning clay) has been an integral part of human history since ancient times, with roots in our origin stories and a wide range of external objects. Clay has served as a medium for telling stories and expressing artistic vision since the beginning of human civilization and has played a significant role in this journey ever since. 

BARRO will be available to view at Love House, 214 Sullivan Street, #2D, NYC, by appointment only through the month of April. 

Explore Sarah Len’s conversations with many of the exhibition’s featured ceramic artists and artisans. 

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