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Hillman-Jackson Gallery

The Hillman-Jackson Gallery is a showcase exhibition space for both professional artists and faculty, as well as a curricular hub where students can engage in artist’s talks, class critiques, and installation participation — all in the heart of the Daniel Arts Center.

The gallery is open Monday through Friday 9–6, Saturday 12–6 and Sunday 2–6.

Current Exhibition: flores cinis terra

Harrison Levenstein

flores cinis terra
Stoneware & Porcelain Artworks

October 18, 2024 – January 15, 2025

Friday, October 25, 5:00 pm: Opening Reception in McConnell Theater

The Hillman-Jackson Gallery in The Daniel Arts Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock is pleased to present flores cinis terra, an exhibition of ceramic artworks by Simon’s Rock Ceramics program resident artist and adjunct ceramics faculty member Harry Levenstein. Open to the public on October 18th, opening reception on October 25th, 5-7PM in the gallery. The show will include a grouping of ash-glazed stoneware and porcelain pots exploring Levenstein’s take on traditional forms and techniques that have influenced his own personal aesthetic philosophy. One can expect to see visual nods to ceramics made by Korean, Japanese, South Indian, Grecian and English masters found in prominent museum collections. The decorative imagery of this show centers around an archetypal flower rendered by hand using sgrafitto, slips, inlays, and sprigs.

Levenstein earned his BAs in studio arts and art education from Humboldt Poly Tech in 2014 before spending three years apprenticing with two clay artists in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. In 2019 he spent six months living in southern India working at Pondicherry’s Golden Bridge Pottery and exploring the local materials through the lens of Japanese woodfiring learned during his apprenticeship. From India he moved to southwestern Montana to further his exploration into atmospheric firing processes and clay body design. Levenstein moved to the Berkshires in 2020 to begin his position at Simon’s Rock where he takes care of the clay studio, works with students and maintains a studio practice. He travels internationally to teach woodfiring workshops and hopes to soon build a large kiln to grow a local woodfiring community here in the Berkshires.

Past Exhibitions