Description

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“La Cerca,” Fenci’s solo exhibition, opened at the state museum  in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico.

The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a  5-foot-by-9-foot  drawing and several smaller drawings, is the  culmination of two years of work,  both on the art and in negotiations  with the museum officials.

All of the works in some way or another deal with defense  strategies, and so  Fenci chose the Spanish translation for “The Wall”  as the exhibition’s title.  “We build these elaborate structures that  give us a sense of safety and  protection, but the fact is, they’re all  futile.”

In addition to this photographed collection of Fenci’s work are  essays by David A. Lewis, Scott Robinson, Adan Saenz, and others.

About the Author

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PIERO FENCI holds an MFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and a  BA in Latin American Studies from Yale University. Since 1975, Fenci has been a  teacher and the head of the ceramics department at Stephen F. Austin State  University in Nacogdoches. Fenci’s vessels have been featured in numerous magazines and books, such as  Ceramics Monthly, American Ceramics, The Contemporary Potter, and Clay and  Glazes for the Potter. His pieces have been exhibited in solo and group  exhibitions from coast to coast (including Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Texas 2010) and are  included in many private and museum collections, including The Museum of Fine  Arts, Houston, and the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art in  Alfred, NY.