Adrian Arleo

"AWARENESS" - hand-built ceramic sculpture of squirrel with many eyes in body

2012

I love this extraordinary American surrealist piece - a collage/montage, an assembly of objects in a velvet-clad box/frame - for a number of reasons reasons. I love the fact that it depicts pipes, among the most iconic images of the surrealist movement, rooted in Magritte’s famous 1929 painting which depicts a pipe accompanied by the caption “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” (This is not a pipe). Marcel Duchamp loved using pipes...

Toshiko Takaezu Closed Form (INV# NP3927) 4.5 x 5 x 5" date unknown signed by artist provenance - The Nevica Project Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) was an American ...

Michael Frimkess Cream Calabash (INV# NP3996) stoneware and glaze 8.5 x 5" date unknown provenance - The Nevica Project Magdalena Suarez Frimkess and Michael Frimkess began workin...

Magdalena Suarez-Frimkess Lidded Venice Beach Motif Jar (INV# NP3997) stoneware, underglaze and glaze 6.5 x 5" 1981 signed by artist provenance - The Nevica Project Magdalena Suarez...

Ken Price California Cup (INV# NP5005) glazed earthenware cup: 4.19 x 6 x 3" handmade wooden box: 8 x 10.38 x 5.63" 1991 #18/25 signed, dated, and numbered provenance The Nevica Pro...

Beatrice Wood Teardrop Vessel (INV# NP4045) stoneware and glaze 6.25 x 4.5" signed by artist