"Breathing, biting, swallowing, tasting, smelling, listening, watching" might sound more like the name of a series by a performance artist, or the to-do list of a conceptualist, than the list of action words one might associate with a potter, like throwing, coiling and pinching. Of course, Andrew Lord isn't exactly a potter in the traditional sense, but he is an artist who is deeply committed to explorations of ceramic media among others, and who is plainly as aware, reverent — and familiar and comfortable enough to also be sweetly irreverent — of ceramic traditions, whether European or Asian, as he is of the trajectories of performance, body, process and conceptual art, and expanded-field sculptural practice that defined the epoch in... More >>>