Great Barrington — Serene, elegant, quiet, strong. These are some of the adjectives viewers have used to describe “Flores cinis terra,” the ceramics exhibit on view at Simon’s Rock for another week. “People have been saying a lot of the words that I want the space and the show to evoke, and that feels good,” says artist Harrison Levenstein, “because it feels like I’m communicating something clearly.
” Someone wrote in the log book, “Literally every time I walk by I have to pause and look for a minute. Everything is so cohesive yet individual.” Like his other work, the various pots and vessels in the show are a study in neutrals: creams and beiges, tinted with gray green.
“I’m so not attracted to glaring color and high chrome,” Levenstein tells The Berkshire Edge. His pieces are layered and subtle, which “invites you in.” He explains, “You don’t get the whole picture right away, you have to investigate it and interact with it to see all the detail that I’m trying to show.
” Levenstein, a native of California, has lived in the Berkshires going on five years, serving as Ceramics Lab Tech and a ceramics instructor at Simon’s Rock since 2020, where he says there is always a demand for ceramics. Classes are usually full, with a wait list, he says. “Flores cinis terra,” which will close January 15, is Levenstein’s first solo show at Simon’s Rock and will be one of the last art exhibits at Simon’s Rock before they relocate to the Huds.
