Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup emerges at a time when seasonal shows around domestic objects are ubiquitous and ceaselessly flirt with the standardized idea of a simple form with a determined function. There’s no doubt that to this day, when uttering the words “ceramic” and “clay,” images of pottery in various pastels pop up in one’s mind, and the potential of a cup being “sculptural”, “painterly,” or “conceptual” erases itself from possibility. What emerges in response is a 39-person group exhibition highlighting the works of painters, sculptors, mixed-media artists, designers, and ceramicists. Aesthetics of Everyday Objects: The Cup serves as a distinctive disruption from its stereotype, and is built upon the legacy of Betty Asher (1914–94), a renowned Los Angeles curator, collector, and dealer. Credited for being one of the first people to collect Pop Art, and for driving Los Angeles’s cultural scene, Asher simultaneously fulfilled her thirst for inventive works through the inclusion of ceramics and elevated its place from the domestic, at a time when prejudices against the medium were at an all-time high. Featured Artists: Adam Shiverdecker Akihide Nakao Amia Yokoyama Anabel Juarez Astrid Terrazas Bari Ziperstein Ben Medansky Cammi Climaco Chelsey Pettyjohn Erik Otsea Eun-Ha Paek Graham Marks Grant Levy-Lucero Jackie Rines Jay Kvapil Jennie Jieun Lee Jose Sierra Julia Haft-Candell Julia M. Kunin Kiyoshi Kaneshiro Kristen Morgin Lizette Hernandez Mustafa Ali Clayton Nicki Green Olive Diamond Peter Shire Phyllis Green Roger Herman Roksana Pirouzmand Ricca Okano Ryan Flores Shdopp (A Michael Dopp + Shoshi Watanabe Collaboration) Stanley Edmonson Tâm Van Tran Taylor Kibby Teekay Tamarappoo The Perfect Nothing Catalog Vamba Bility Zimra Beiner