At the Faulconer Gallery Winter 2013

Quality Uncertainty: The Market for Lemons

Jan. 24–March 16, 2014

New York-based artist Greg Smith draws inspiration from Nobel Prize-winning economic research, American car culture, and classic “road movies” for a video installation opening in the Faulconer Gallery in late January.

Smith received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 2000 before pursuing a career as an artist. He received a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship based on his proposal for the video that debuts in this, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. It features many of the makeshift cameras used in the filming, as well as plastic lawn furniture, a bathtub, and a used Lexus ES300. After appearing at the Faulconer Gallery, the exhibition will travel to Susan Inglett Gallery, New York.

Jill Davis Schrift: Works in Clay

Jan. 24–March 16, 2014

In her second solo exhibition at the Faulconer Gallery, Jill Davis Schrift, lecturer in art, creates ceramic work to transform and enrich the daily routine of eating and drinking to an artful experience. In the vase series, Schrift brings together traditional vessel forms with contemporary techniques to activate the surface of the clay. 

Schrift has been a lecturer in art at Grinnell College since 1988, teaching ceramics and drawing. She has a master’s in fine arts, with a specialization in ceramic sculpture, from Purdue University, and a master of science in teaching from State University of New York at Potsdam. Her solo exhibitions included pastel drawings and collages at the Bibliothèque Marguerite Audoux, Paris; Les Vergers de l’Art, Paris; and of her ceramic work at the Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center.