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California Clay Movement
The California Clay Movement (or American Clay Revolution) was a school of ceramic art that emerged in California in the 1950s. The movement was part of the larger transition in crafts from "designer-craftsman" to "artist-craftsman". The editor of '' Craft Horizons'', New York-based Rose Slivka, became an enthusiastic advocate of the movement. Peter Voulkos Peter Voulkos was one of the movement's driving forces. He established the Ceramic Center at the Los Angeles County Art Institute (now the Otis College of Art and Design), where he created massive, abstract ceramic sculptures. He felt that his free-form ceramic works were like jazz compositions: improvisational and free spirited. Voulkos began creating ever larger ceramic works to break away from the conventional arts and crafts of his day. Some of his work, named "plates", "ice buckets" or "tea bowls", were "deconstructed" traditional forms of glazed pottery. Others, such as his "stacks", were non-utilitarian and purely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Selvin
Nancy Selvin (born 1943) is an American sculptor, recognized for ceramic works and tableaux that explore the vessel form and balance an interplay of materials, minimal forms, and expressive processes.Muchnic, Suzanne. "Galleries," ''Los Angeles Times'', December 18, 1981, p. 12.Pasfield, Veronica. "Nancy Selvin," ''American Ceramics'', September 1992, p. 51.White, Cheryl. "Nancy Selvin at Works Gallery," ''Artweek'', June 1996, p. 22.Ostermann, Matthias. ''Masters: Earthenware'', Lark Books, 2010, p. 66–73. She emerged in the late 1960s among a "second generation" of Bay Area ceramic artists who followed the California Clay Movement and continued to challenge ceramic traditions involving expression, form and function, and an art-world that placed the medium outside its established hierarchy.Lauria, Jo. "Second Generation: Bay Area Artists," ''Ceramic Art and Perception'', March 2005, p. 10–17.Servis, Nancy M. ''Local Treasures: Bay Area Ceramics'' (Catalogue), Berkeley, CA: Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |