Zemer Peled
Zemer Peled, After the Bloom, porcelain, 22 x 30 x 14 in
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 7 porcelain, 5 H x 8 D in
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 1, porcelain, 8 H x 7 D in
Zemer Peled, Large Pua 3, porcelain, 11 H x 11 D in, SOLD
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 4, porcelain, 8 H x 7 D in
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 5, porcelain, 8 H x 7 D in, SOLD
Zemer Peled, Shards Flower 24, porcelain, 21 H x 21 W x 8 D in
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 2, porcelain, 8 H x 7 D in
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 3, porcelain, 8 H x 7 D in
Zemer Peled, Shards Flower 6, porcelain, 11 H x 12 D in , SOLD
Zemer Peled, Small Pua 6, porcelain, 8 H x 7 D in, SOLD
Zemer Peled, Shards Flower 7, porcelain, 16 H x 16 D in, SOLD
Zemer Peled, Large Pua 2, porcelain, 11 H x 11 D in
Zemer Peled, Shards Flower 1, porcelain, 18 H x 21 W x 16 D in
Zemer Peled, Shards Flower 6, porcelain, 11 H x 12 D in, SOLD
Zemer Peled, Large Pua 1, porcelain, 11 H x 11 D in
Zemer Peled, Hold Me series, porcelain, 5 H x 7 D in each
Zemer Peled (in collaboration with Bernardaud), In Bloom, porcelain, 12.25 in diameter each
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Artist Info
Zemer Peled was born and raised in Israel. She earned her MA at the Royal College of Art (UK). In recent years, her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Sotheby's, Saatchi Gallery (London), and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City). She has been featured in Vogue, O Magazine, Elle and other international publications.
Her work is found in many private collections around the world and museum collections, such as the Fuller Craft Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation.She currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD.
Zemer Peled’s labor-intensive process bridges narrative and formalist elements. She utilizes a process of creation and destruction to make sculptures consisting of thousands of handcrafted porcelain shards resulting in works that can be read in relation to art historical tradition, outsider art, and natural phenomena.
The sculpture’s narrative impulses lean to encounters with the otherworldly - like complex topiaries marking a not-so-distant land - yet they remain distinctly tied to earth’s patterns. This conflation of the foreign and familiar creates a frenzied dislocation in the work. Inspired by migratory habits of birds, a sweep of feathers, and cycles of change, the works spiral outwardly in rhythmic patterns, interpreting not only the dynamism of nature, but also the startling strangeness of a life lived in transition.
Peled's work examines the beauty and brutality of the natural world. Her sculptures and installations consist of thousands of hand-crafted porcelain shards; a technique that yields a texture both delicate and severe. In some works, large scale-like ceramic pieces appear airy, delicate, and fluffy, as if one's breath might break it. In others, Peled's fragments are geometric barbs that mysteriously take on an alluring form - offering a sense of softness despite a sharp actuality.
The act of making for Peled is a feat of endurance, improvisation, and adaptation with the aim to embody a fleeting but fundamental feeling of mystery. The construction of her sculpture parallels negotiations any outsider makes in encountering a new world as they delicately construct a self that is both adaptable and resilient.