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Period: 1980s
Medium: Glaze
"Ceramic Box with Lid" Stoneware Cream Glaze w/ Organic Attachments
By Gawaine Dart
Located in Detroit, MI
ONE WEEK ONLY SALE
The rich tones of the stoneware clay come through the soft creamy glaze that drips over the surface like melted vanilla ice cream over red devil cake. There are i...
Category
1980s Glaze Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze
Ceramic Sculptural bowl
Located in New York, NY
Peter Voulkos
Ceramic Sculptural Dish, ca. 1985
Sculpted ceramic
Hand-signed by artist, Incised signature on the base.
1.5 x 11.5 inches
This charger plate by Voulkos features a Greek-influenced stylized birds and leaf design. Peter Voulkos is an American artist of Greek descent. The abstraction of animal and nature elements paired with the earthy, mottled gray and brown against brown background make this work beautiful. This work was featured in the exhibition "On Black Mountain: The Bauhaus Legacy in America", at the Sager Braudis Gallery (now Sager Reeves), in Columbia Missouri from April 5, 2019 to April. 27, 2019 and is reproduced in page 53 of the exhibition catalogue.
We will provide a complimentary copy of the exhibition catalogue to the buyer of this work.
Born in 1924 to Greek immigrant parents in the town of Bozeman, Montana, Peter Voulkos is one of America’s most significant sculptors of the 20th century. Voulkos got his start in art in the late 1940s, when he was studying at Montana State College, Bozeman on the G.I. Bill, after being drafted and serving as an airplane armorer-gunner in the Pacific in World War II. In classes with Frances Senska, he discovered ceramics, the medium that would characterize his career. After graduating from Montana State College, Bozeman in 1951, Voulkos moved west and earned his MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California.
Returning to Montana after graduation, Voulkos attracted attention “as a prodigious natural potter and a producer of elegantly thrown functional earthenware,” according to Roberta Smith for the New York Times. He also produced dinnerware to sell through high-quality stores, and was noted for his wax-resist method of decoration.Voulkos gained a reputation as a master of ceramics techniques, winning twenty-nine prizes and awards from 1949 through 1955. However, a summer spent teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College (he was invited to teach at BMC by Karen Karnes) near Asheville, North Carolina in 1953 resulted in a dramatic shift in Voulkos’s artistic priorities, as well as his aesthetic. It was at Black Mountain College that Voulkos met Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Charles Olson. He then visited New York City (as a guest of pianist David Tudor and Mary Catherine Richards) and encountered Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline—Abstract Expressionist painters who influenced the new direction Voulkos would go on to pursue.
In 1954, Voulkos was invited to teach at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now Otis), and he established a new ceramics department and graduate program that attracted other young artists including John Mason, Ken Price, Billy Al Bengston and Paul Soldner. It was here that, inspired by the scale and spontaneity of the New York School, Voulkos began to build progressively larger works that cast aside utility and abandoned ceramic conventions. Decoration became aggressive, as he slashed at and pierced the clay, which he then energetically painted with glaze. Peter Voulkos exhibited these new works in shows at the Landau Gallery in Los Angeles, which announced to the world a new way of approaching ceramics.
Disagreements with the more conservative administrators of the LA County Art Institute led to Voulkos’s departure for the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959. While at Berkeley, Voulkos experimented with bronze and produced large-scale bronze sculpture, while continuing his ceramic work and doing demonstrations of ceramics throughout the U.S. In 1979, a young ceramist named Peter Callas...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Glaze Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Mixed Media, Glaze
Pillow by David Shaner (INV# NP3795)
By David Shaner
Located in Morton Grove, IL
David Shaner
Pillow (INV# NP3795)
stoneware and glaze
5 x 11 x 11"
circa 1980
signed
*Featured in Ceramics Monthly magazine (2003 and 2009)
DAVID SHANER (1934 – 2002)
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Category
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Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Untitled Slab with Colored Tears (#891)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jim Leedy
Untitled Slab with Colored Tears (#891)
Raku-Fired Stoneware
1989
Approx. 20 in in diameter
COA provided
Comes with original papers
Ref.: #891
Ref...
Category
1980s American Modern Glaze Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Untitled by Ron Nagle (INV# NP3614)
By Ron Nagle
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Ron Nagle
Untitled (INV# NP3614)
clay and glaze
5.25 x 4 x 4"
1986
Ron Nagle is one of the most important sculptors in the United States. He work is highly collected and included in museum collections such as Shigaraki Museum, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée de Plastique, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands. He was born in San Francisco and began working with ceramics during the 1950s as a high school student. In 1961 he apprenticed to Peter Voulkos at the University of California, Berkeley, and later exhibited his work alongside Voulkos, Ken Price, and other innovative West Coast artists working in clay. His work is inspired by such artists as Giorgio Morandi, Phillip Guston, and George Herriman...
Category
1980s Contemporary Glaze Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glaze
Large Closed Form by Toshiko Takaezu (INV# NP5031)
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Toshiko Takaezu
Large Closed Form (INV# NP5031)
10.75 x 8.5 x 8.5"
1980
signed by artist
Toshiko Takaezu (June 17, 1922 – March 9, 2011) was an American ceramic artist and painter. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Glaze Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Glaze
Lidded Venice Beach Motif Jar by Magdalena Frimkess (INV# NP3997)
Located in Morton Grove, IL
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
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Platter
Located in Kansas City, MO
Artist : Arnie Zimmerman
Title : Platter
Materials : Stoneware, glaze
Date : 1982
Dimensions : 22.75" x 23.5" x 4.5"
Description : Hand-signed and dated o...
Category
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Materials
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Polkadot Wall Slab
By Jun Kaneko
Located in Morton Grove, IL
stoneware, underglaze, and glaze
Category
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Materials
Stoneware, Glaze, Underglaze
Site for a Bowl I by Paula Winokur
By Paula Winokur
Located in Morton Grove, IL
porcelain, glaze
Category
1980s Contemporary Glaze Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain, Glaze
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