WARREN MATHER: All Around

Lucy Lacoste Gallery is pleased to present All Around, a solo exhibition of monoprints on clay by Boston-based ceramic artist Warren Mather from September 5 — October 10, 2026 in Concord MA. In his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Mather invites us to see the world from more than a single point of view — to experience what he calls an “all around, all at once” perspective. Beginning with photographs that become stories in his mind, Mather translates those stories into images on clay through photography, color, shape, and innovative ceramic techniques.

For more than 55 years, Mather has explored the possibilities of photographic and drawn imagery on clay, developing the technical means to translate photographs, video, and computer-generated images into ceramic surfaces. In All Around, he brings together photography, color, and shape to create works that ask us to see the world — and one another — from more than a single point of view. Mather often begins with a photograph of an ordinary activity or landscape. The image becomes a story in his mind, which he then translates onto clay through ceramic screen printing, color, and other innovative techniques. “Currently I cannot get enough of the conjunction of color and shape,” he says.

The circular panoramas in All Around offer a simultaneous perspective, as though the viewer were standing at the center of a space and able to see in every direction at once. In Welcome House Maui, and throughout the panoramic works, Mather seeks to convey a sense of the totality of presence in a space — an "all around, all at once” view that is impossible from a single fixed position, or even by simply turning in a circle. As an anthropologist, Mather is particularly interested in what this expanded perspective might mean beyond the physical act of seeing: “I especially want the viewer, everyone, to behold their fellow humans with equanimity, equality. All around, all at once.”

Other works in the exhibition depict bicyclists riding alongside spindly New England trees and tennis players facing an amorphous figure reminiscent of thermal imaging. Beginning with a photograph of an activity such as cycling or tennis, Mather translates what he sees — and what he imagines or perceives to be in the mind of his subject — into clay. Conant Rider was the first photograph Mather made of bicycle riders on the road where he lives. “My front door, so to speak. The bike whizzed by me. I turned and shot. Then later I saw the road was outlined as a clean rectangle and I felt I saw the mind of the rider.” The rider’s emotional destination, climbing the hill, is suggested by the “thought bubble” above.

Mather made Training Blue at the bottom of the same hill. “I felt the curve of the hill suggested to me the repetition of riding. The work, effort, duration of riding to build endurance. I doubled the image to suggest circling around the hill of trees, and the blue shape was the reservoir of energy being accumulated by all the pedaling.”

Clay offers a hard copy of the artist’s vision.

Born in 1947, Mather received his Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 and his Certificate of Mastery in Ceramics from Boston University in 1978. He taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts from 1985 – 2011. His artistic career, spanning more than five decades, has received national recognition. His work is held in the collections of the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Concord Art Museum, and Fort Wayne Museum of Art, as well as in numerous private collections and galleries.

Warren Mather’s All Around is on view at Lucy Lacoste Gallery through October 10, 2026. The opening reception with the artist is Saturday, September 5, and the artist talk is Sunday, September 6.

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