Coleton Lunt: Living Ceramics: Uniting Utility and Sculpture
by Denise MassaWhat if a sculpture could light the room, hold your coat, cradle a houseplant, and invite you to sit – all while blurring the line between art and function? Coleton Lunt’s latest body of work, Living…
Craftscape
Until recently with the advent of complete automation in the making of many ceramic products there was little awareness that the industry once employed many skilled crafts men and women. These redunda…
The Legacy of Mesopotamia: A Transformation from Glazed Brick to Modern Art Practices
Mesopotamia, one of the oldest civilizations in human history, has had a profound influence on architectural and artistic practices. Glazed brick, a key material in this region, transitioned from load…
Social Ideology in Ceramic Art
by Ali Uslu, Kemal UludağSince the beginning of history, the relationship between society, ideology and art has been shaped by the conditions of their particular contemporaneous time. Over decades, it is people who shape the…
The Wildness of Clay
Ceramic artists struggle to agree on a working definition for wild clay. Its name reflects this resistance to sorting into a reproducible container of language. Wild clay, as defined as clay sourced f…
Poke in the Eye: West Coast Counterculture: Seattle Art Museum, June 21—September 2, 2024
Poke in the Eye: West Coast Counterculture was an important survey of late 20th century West Coast ceramics masquerading as an investigation of painting and other media in California, Oregon and Washi…