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Andrea Gill, (American, 20th Century)

$4,800
£3,626.64
€4,200.94
CA$6,762.32
A$7,547.46
CHF 3,953.56
MX$92,029.58
NOK 50,000.97
SEK 46,889.35
DKK 31,355.71

About the Item

Andrea Gill, (American, 20th Century) Ming Mecca, Madonna Series, painted pottery, signed, dated 2006 Height 32 in., Width 13 in., Depth 10 in. cf. Andrea Gill's decorated vases are functional forms that range into the realm of sculpture. While the artist adopts ideas, traditions, and styles of historical pottery, she turns them deftly around to question the very essence of the vessel form. Since 1980, when she began to work in clay full time, Gill has sought to camouflage, or to confuse the identity of her amphora like pottery affixing wing-like extrusions, or painting multiple images of vases, or other obscuring motifs on their surfaces. Trained originally as a painter, and fascinated by the decorative techniques of Italian majolica painters, and folk artists in general, Andrea Gill has sought to contradict the three-dimensional form of her vessels by employing colorful, flat-patterned imagery. Surface decoration is essential to her work. In fact, Gill's vessels are primarily vehicles for painted decoration. Indeed, her more recent vases are covered with such dazzling pattern painting that it is often hard to distinguish the form beneath the surface decoration. The artist begins by sketching on paper the outlines of a projected vessel. Contours are of special interest to her. When you look at a pot, she writes; most of the time you are looking at a line . . . even though you think of them as forms." She then hand builds the vessel according to the drawing using coils of terracotta, and bisque fires it. From this basic, often irregular shape, she produces a press mold from which numerous replicas can be made. The generic form of the molded vessel is then individually varied by adding slabs of clay. These winglike appendages become essential components in the painted decoration, for Gill treats her altered vessel form like an artist's shaped canvas. The above statement, extracted from Carbondale Clay Center Website. Condition Report Good condition
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)Depth: 10 in (25.4 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    20th Century
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    West Palm Beach, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3860146323292

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