Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Vessel until 01 October Cob Gallery presents Vessel, a selection of new ceramic paintings by American artist Kevin McNamee-Tweed. Anchored squarely in the tradition of painting, these wall-hanging works are composed of home-mixed clay bodies and glazes, including materials dug up near the artist’s home in North Carolina, a locality known for its rich clay history. The intimately scaled works depict human, animal and inanimate subjects in tenderly dramatic vignettes. With pathos and humor, they reveal fragments of wider narratives while focusing on moments of existential disquiet, incidental poignancy or confounding delight. Embracing Ursula K. Le Guin’s accumulative notion of narrative while crafting his own imagery and stories on a precise emotional scale, ‘Vessel’ sees McNamee-Tweed gather personal, grandiose and mundane ruminations, absorbing stylistic tendencies and formal sensibilities from the art-historical to the commonplace. Combining meticulous technique and controlled processes with a restless spirit of experimentation, McNamee-Tweed reflects on the mechanics of meaning-making and storytelling while celebrating the surfaces, textures, and material depth possible only with clay, glaze and their alchemical processes. Shells, 2022 Glazed ceramic, 2 3/4 x 2 1/2 in Shells, 2022 Glazed ceramic, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in Walking Flower, 2022 Glazed ceramic, 7 x 5 3/4 in Mantis in Cafe,, 2022 Glazed ceramic, 7 x 4 3/4 in Still Modern Vase, 2022 Glazed ceramic, 7 x 6 in Chicken (Tree Perspective), 2022 Glazed ceramic, 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in @cottontweed #kevinmcnameetweed #cobgallery #ceramics #painting