FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware at Redling Fine Art
Visible Storage Area IV

Thursday, September 4, 2008. Reception 7:00pm - 11:00pm.

 

The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware is pleased to present Visible Storage Area IV -- the newest extension of our ever-growing Visible Storage Area display system.

Founded in 2004, the Division Museum began as a personal collection of damaged everyday ceramic and glass items, primarily everyday items of food preparation and consumption. In 2006, the private collection became accessible to the public through the erection of the Museum's Chinatown exhibition space at 141 Division Street, New York, NY. Generous donations of broken ceramic and glass items, all formerly owned from by the Friends and Founders of the Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware, allowed the collection to flourish.

No longer situated in its original location, the Museum has become a traveling entity.

The success of the Division Museum has comes from both the strength and visibility of the permanent collection. When its renowned Visible Storage Area was established in 2007, every piece in the collection became available to visitors at all times. Part museum storage, part exhibition space, Visible Storage Area allows the Museum's catalogue inventory to be simultaneously preserved and exhibited.

Visible Storage Area IV continues the Museum's our tradition of uninterrupted storage and display. Visible Storage Area IV Four is entirely comprised of the recently acquired Los Angeles Los Angeles collection, which has been generously bequeathed to the Museum by ceramics collector Ms. Erica Reneé Redling, and Mr. Walead Bahjat Beshty. This donation marks a new direction for the Museum and the basis for the Museum' s West Coast collection.

The acquisition of forty-five items from Ms. Redling 's and Mr. Beshty's personal collection is a momentous event in the history of the Museum. Receiving this donation of unprecedented scale will allow the Museum to expand the collection's geographic and stylistic reach and keep up with an ever-changing field.

In the service of future anthropological study, as well as the eventual historical influence of the Museum's donors, the Division Museum strives to preserve these artifacts in their current condition.

This exhibit will be accompanied by a forthcoming fully illustrated catalogue.