His large clay sculptures often took the form of ice buckets plates and stacks which he then cast in bronze.
Ceramics peter voulkos artwork.
16 2002 bowling green ohio helped the craft of pottery gain acceptance as an art form through his creation of ceramic works that were highly esteemed for their originality.
Bryce bannatyne gallery santa monica california acquired from the above 1993 the carmichael pelsinger.
In the early 1970 s voulkos concentrated on two basic ceramic forms.
The artist s intent was clearly sculptural not functional.
One way he did this was to dramatically increase the size of his ceramic objects.
Voulkos 73 applied paper gallery label.
Peter voulkos born panagiotis harry voulkos on 29 january 1924 in bozeman montana deceased on 16 february 2002 in bowling green ohio was an american artist of greek descent.
The work is open at the top and has the vessel as a frame of reference.
Peter voulkoswas an american sculptor of greek heritage.
To work on an enormous scale voulkos borrowed structural methods from architecture and devised a way.
How a revolution in ugly design is upending conventions of beauty.
Snowmass is classic peter voulkos.
A participant in the resurgence of american studio crafts he helped change the viewpoint that ceramics were merely utilitarian objects.
Peter voulkos was instrumental in the transformation of ceramics from a traditional craft to a sculptural art form.
Peter voulkos american ceramics artist born jan.
He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art.
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At 80 ceramics legend ron nagle is still perfecting his otherworldly sculptures.
There he developed a kind of abstract expressionist ceramics embraced by critics in both artforum and craft horizons and influenced outstanding painter ceramists including ken price and ron.
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29 1924 bozeman mont died feb.
He had first experimented with platelike forms in the late 1950 s and early 1960 s slashing gouging pinching tearing and rearranging their common archetypal shapes.