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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] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
