What kind of artwork is Stan Bitters famous for?

The kind of artwork that Stan Bitters is famous for is ceramics. He has been an icon of modernist ceramics since the 1960s. Bitters constructed rough assemblages of clay slabs and spoked wheels into massive murals and tall totems, upsizing his medium to an architectural scale. Like Toshiko Takaezu, Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner and others, Bitters was part of a small group of artists working in the United States during the mid-20th century who embraced imperfection in their pottery. Working in ceramics, a material that was then relegated to the supposedly lesser artistic realm of craft, Bitters and these artists made bold, chunky pieces that served as a counterpoint to the smooth lines and overall slickness of modern and postmodern movements like Bauhaus, Constructivism, Minimalism, Op art and Pop art. On 1stDibs, shop a range of Stan Bitters ceramics.