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Ceramic work by Lorraine Shemesh, Black & White Tilted Nerikomi Vessel (porcelain, 4.5" x 11" x 7.5", 2011). The image illustrates a key body of work in Lorraine Shemesh's career beginning in the 2010s: her porcelain and stoneware vessels, created using the Japanese techniques of Nerikomi and Neriage. The ceramic works share preoccupations with pattern, geometry, twisting and interlocking forms, and metamorphoses of shape and light from figuration to abstraction with her with her "Painted Pools" and Dancers paintings and drawings; in this case, the vessel employs repetitions and deviations of patterns and flowing shapes seemingly lifted from her pool images. Works in this series were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in art journals and press publications.

Artist Lorraine Shemesh. Copyright held by the artist.

Lorraine Shemesh

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Lorraine Shemesh's career beginning in the 2010s, when she began producing and exhibiting porcelain and stoneware vessels in conjunction with her "Painted Pools" and Dancers series. The vessels were created the clay works using the time-consuming Japanese techniques of Nerikomi and Neriage, interlacings of different colored clays which are then hand built like layered geologic formations, or worked on a banding wheel. The ceramic works share preoccupations with pattern, geometry, twisting and interlocking forms, and metamorphoses of shape and light from figuration to abstraction with her paintings and drawings. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this later body of work, which has brought Shemesh ongoing recognition through prominent exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Shemesh's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Lorraine Shemesh, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general working of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.