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Toshiko Takaezu in 1997 Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her ceramic sculptures, which she treated as abstract paintings in the round. Her gestural style, distinctive palettes, and complex layering of glazes align with the practices of Abstract Expressionists who were her […]

We all looked up to her as an artist because her work was so expressive and unique, and also as a woman forging new terrain and creating original and powerful work.

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One of the things that I find surprising about contemporary ceramic art is the range of technique combined with whimsy that has been used. This has been an ongoing development made possible by wide-ranging discoveries in glaze and clay body research and combined with amazing references to ancient ceramic work as well.

“Although traditionally used as a medium for functional or decorative objects, ceramic has become a medium that is increasingly used by contemporary artists. Here is the work of some important contemporary ceramic artists from around the world! Grayson Perry Grayson Perry, The Existential Void, 2012 “I like the whole iconography […]

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Art Craft All images © Janny Baek, shared with permission “I’ve always been drawn to art in different ways, but sculpting clay by hand seems to come most naturally to me. I think it is my most effective means of communication,” says Janny Baek , whose playful, abstract ceramics […]

It’s a lot harder than you’d think to create something new in clay, a new vision and a new form and expression. However Janny Baek has ventured beyond and made work that really captures imagination.

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Photographer unknown Biography Selected Publications film / videos Periodicals / newspapers Books / Catalogues Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest abstract artists. Gifted with prodigious drive and vision, she combined inspirations from her own cultural background with currents from contemporary painting and sculpture, arriving at […]

–Though she is being given some special attention during a celebration month honoring women and that is quite valid, I have always thought of her as a great artist and didn’t need to know her gender. At the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA) near where I used to live, there were three of her extraordinary pieces right by the CAFE, thus serving food of the soul as well as a mean salad inside. She had a way of using simplicity of form and surface in a way that was deeply expressive.

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Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), “Master and Tics” (2002), Cochiti red clay, white clay slip, red clay slip, black (wild spinach) paint, 27 inches x 15 inches x 12 inches (courtesy Robert Gallegos, image courtesy the museum) SANTA FE, N. Mex. — ReVOlution , an exhibition at the Museum of […]

This is a fun and lively work and very attention getting. It’s at the entrance to the museum. However, it’s an anomaly… the other pieces in the show are much more “traditional” in execution, and really show the range of work being practiced. If you get a chance to go to the Museum of Indian Arts and crafts in Santa Fe, it is really worth it. They have amazing exhibits. And p.s. there is a wonderful outdoor cafe just to the side of the museum. A must visit.

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Lucie Rie, Bowl, 1977, thrown porcelain with manganese glaze and sgraffito decoration, Middlesbrough Collection. Purchased with assistance from the V&A Purchase Grant Fund. “To make pottery is an adventure to me, every new work is a new beginning.” Kettle’s Yard is delighted to present Lucie Rie: The Adventure of […]

So beautiful and so perfect, simple yet powerful expression… I remember seeing a bowl of hers in a private collection. There were bigger, “louder” pieces all around, but that beautiful and smallish work seemed to expand and take up the whole room.

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Art “Visceral vision.” All images © Tour Kurokawa, shared with permission The natural growth process, which begins with the replication of a single cell and eventually produces bodily systems and lifeforms, informs the practice of artist Toru Kurokawa ( previously ). Based in Kyoto, Kurokawa transforms amorphous hunks of […]

These feel like spines and bone joints found in the desert near my house. He has captured the living undergirding of human and animal life.

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Installation view of Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery, London. Pictured: Takuro Kuwata, “Untitled” (variously 2015, 2016), porcelain, glaze, pigment, steel, gold, lacquer (all photos Olivia McEwan/Hyperallergic) LONDON — Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art is a bold move by the Hayward Gallery: many will […]

I’ll admit it. I don’t like these pieces one bit but I am glad people are stretching the definition of ceramics nonetheless.

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Potter Shin Sang-ho uses bold colors to paint his pieces that take the form of animals at his studio called Bugokdobang in Yangju, Gyeonggi. [PARK SANG-MOON] Past the picturesque landscapes along the national highway in Yangju, Jangheung-myeon, Gyeonggi, then up a rocky, winding road, awaits a large door adorned […]

When an artist has made the inseparable bond between what he makes and who he is, magic happens.

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