Kevin McNamee-Tweed's alchemical "ceramic paintings" debut at Alexander Berggruen

Alexander Berggruen is presenting Kevin McNamee-Tweed: The Weather. Through ceramics and works on paper, Kevin McNamee-Tweed explores the construction of meaning and the ways stories are formed, transmitted, and transformed. To assemble his playful, rigorous, and deeply considered visual language, he draws from a wide range of sources. Repeated motifs are mined from art history as well as the textures and symbols of everyday life. Material inquiry and sustained experimentation drive his mark- and image-making, most notably through clay and glaze. In The Weather, McNamee-Tweed centers themes of self-mythology, contemplative repose, and the experience of looking. The artist’s pictorial ceramics—often described as “ceramic paintings”—merge the immediacy of two-dimensional imagery with the physical presence of sculpture.