{"id":284740,"date":"2026-05-26T14:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284740\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:26:14","slug":"the-gallery-amalgam-by-molly-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284740\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gallery: \u201cAmalgam\u201d by Molly Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mollyhatchstudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Molly Hatch<\/a> transforms the ceramic dinner plate from ordinary to extraordinary. She finds inspiration in decorative china patterns from across the world, particularly regions rich in ceramic traditions. Each plate features an extracted historical element, such as a specific design or color, that Hatch uses to create a unique pattern in her artworks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2024_SP_Amalgam_062_SarasotaArtMuseum_PhotoJohnPolak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1728\"  \/>\u201cAmalgam,\u201d an impressive two-story installation of ceramic ware at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarasotaartmuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sarasota Art Museum<\/a>, features more than 400 hand-thrown plates, each painted with an abstract motif. \u201cAmalgam\u201d focuses on the connected global history of blue-and-white ceramics, specifically patterns from China\u2019s Ming Dynasty, Mexican Talavera pottery and 18th-century English china. Swaths of gold paint across various plates emphasize the commodification of ceramics and how past generations valued their wares as prized possessions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2024_SP_Amalgam_028_SarasotaArtMuseum_PhotoJohnPolak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1638\" height=\"1152\"  \/>\u201cAmalgam\u201d is one of two installations by Hatch at the museum. \u201cStaccato\u201d is presented in Bistro, the Sarasota Art Museum\u2019s restaurant. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joanna Robotham is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the <a href=\"https:\/\/tampamuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out last month\u2019s piece <a href=\"https:\/\/tampamagazines.com\/the-gallery-fmopa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts<\/a>. Looking to advertise with us? Find out <a href=\"https:\/\/tampamagazines.com\/advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">how<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Molly Hatch transforms the ceramic dinner plate from ordinary to extraordinary. She finds inspiration in decorative china&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3087,74759,74760,74761,135,74762,137,136,74763],"class_list":["post-284740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-art","tag-art-history","tag-art-in-tampa-bay","tag-joanna-robotham","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-art-scene","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}