Past Exhibitions Exhibitions in 2003 & 2004 Current Exhibitions

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solo:
LongHouse Reserve.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.
Osceola Gallery.
Charles Cowles Gallery.
Frank Lloyd Gallery.
group:
Bauhaus Connection.
Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group.
Standing Room Only: The 60th Scripps Ceramic Annual.
A Ceramic Continuum: 50 Years of the Archie Bray Influence.
Clay Works: 20th-Century Ceramics from the Everson Museum.
Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy.
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective.
Ceramic Art from an International Perspective.
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis

 

ice bucket
Ice bucket, 1998
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com

 
 
  

 
Bauhaus Connection.

The Montana Museum of Art & Culture at the University of Montana in Missoula mounted an exhibition entitled the Bauhaus Connection featuring plexi collage constructions by Lela Autio, ceramic art by Rudy Autio and Frances Senska, and ceramics, bronze sculptures and prints by Peter Voulkos. Voulkos’ Untitled Ice Bucket IB5 pictured at left was among the works in the show. Made of cast bronze, it is sixteen and three quarters inches tall. Dates for the this show focusing on these three generations of artist-teachers were November 18, 2003 through February 6, 2004.

On January 29, 2004, University of Montana art Professor Rafael Chacon delivered a lecture open to the public at 5:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center.

Formerly known as Museum of Fine Arts, the Montana Museum of Art and Culture houses both the Henry Meloy Gallery and the Paxson Gallery which display the university’s art collection in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center on the Missoula campus. For gallery hours, directions and more information, please telephone 406.243.2019, fax 406.243.5726 or visit the univeristy’s website.
 
 


plate
Untitled Plate, 1963
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com

 
 
  

 
Laguna Art Museum.

The Laguna Art Museum hosted a group show of works from the Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics at Scripps College, Claremont, California to accompany the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Jerry Rothman. Entitled Feat of Clay: Five Decades of Jerry Rothman, it was organized by the Laguna Art Museum in collaboration with the Grand Central Art Center of the California State University Fullerton in Santa Ana. The group show was comprised of works by Billy Al Bengston, Michael & Magdalena Frimkess, John Mason, Mac McClain, Kenneth Price, Jerry Rothman, Paul Soldner, Henry Takemoto and Peter Voulkos. The latter show, called Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, was organized by the University Art Gallery at the University of California at San Diego. The plate pictured at left is by Voulkos. Dates for the the group show were October 26, 2003 to February 22, 2004. Dates for the Rothman retrospective were November 2, 2003 to February 29, 2004.

Additionally, among the “Talk of the Town Lectures” sponsored by the museum was the following. Given in conjunction with the Rothman retrospective was a talk by Susan Peterson, writer and honorary professor at Hunter College of the City of New York, on November 2, 2003 and a gallery talk about his own work by Jerry Rothman, ceramic sculptor, on November 16, 2003. A slide lecture and gallery talk about the Rebels in Clay group exhibit was given by Mary MacNaughton, director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and professor of Art History at Scripps College on December 7, 2003. Lectures were free to members and free to non-members with Museum admission. The Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive in Laguna Beach, California... near the Pacific Ocean. For gallery hours, directions and more information, please telephone 949.494.8971 or visit the museum website.
 
 


plate
Untitled Plate, 1999
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com

 
 
  

 
Standing Room Only: The 60th Scripps Ceramic Annual.

The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College in Clarement, California organized its 60th exhibition of contemporary ceramics in honor of Professor Emeritus Paul Soldner who taught at Scripps College for forty years and organized the Annual. The forthcoming show included works by over one hundred ceramists including this twenty-inch 1999 woodfired plate by Peter Voulkos, pictured at left. An exhibition catalogue accompanied the show with essays by Garth Clark, Jo Lauria, Mary MacNaughton, and Susan Peterson and memories of Soldner by his former students Bill Gilbert, Jun Kaneko, Dennis Parks, and Anne Scott Plummer. Dates of the exhibit were January 24 to April 4, 2004.

In addition, Jo Lauria, writer and former curator of Decorative Arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art gave a special lecture, “What is American in American Ceramics” on January 24, 2003 in the Scripps Humanities Auditorium on the college campus. The gallery is located at 1030 North Columbia Avenue in Claremont. For more information about these events, please contact the gallery by telephone 909.607.3397, by fax 909.607.4691 or visit the gallery website.
 
 


stack
Wedge S12, 2000
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com

 
 
  

 
Two Titans: A Memorial Exhibition of Recent Works by Ed Rossbach and Peter Voulkos.

The LongHouse Reserve in New York organized a memorial exhibition of recent works by Ed Rossbach and Peter Voulkos. Rossbach, a textile artist, and Voulkos were colleagues at the University of California at Berkeley where each taught for over twenty-five years. Voulkos’ works included twelve of his recent bronze stacks on loan from the Artworks Gallery in Berkeley, California and approximately twenty-five ceramic forms including ice buckets, plates and two large ceramic stacks. Among the bronzes which were on display in the new sculpture court are Sevillanas SC1, Amaya S10, Alegria S11, Wedge S12, Chaco S16, and Mimbres S17. Wedge S12, pictured at left, is 51 and 1/2 inches tall and was cast at Artworks Foundry, Berkeley. Dates of the exhibit were from June 7 to September 13, 2003 for the ceramics and from May 17, 2003 to October of 2004 for the bronzes. To view a “virtual tour” of the installation of Voulkos’ bronzes, link to this page on the LongHouse website.

On Saturday evening, June 7th, Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California and co-author with Rose Slivka of the book/exhibition catalogue, The Art of Peter Voulkos, gave a lecture at LongHouse entitled “Fire Within - The Art of Peter Voulkos.” The LongHouse Reserve, a nonprofit public educational organization, is located on a 16 acre estate on the eastern side of Long Island at 133 Hands Creek Road, East Hampton, New York. For gallery hours, directions and more information, please telephone 631.329.3568 or visit their website.
 
 


1956 vase
Vase/Jar, 1956
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com
 
 
  

 
Peter Voulkos Ceramics

The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University mounted an exhibition entitled Peter Voulkos Ceramics in the Oshman Family Gallery at the Center. Curated by Hilarie Faberman, this show was drawn from works in private collections and works in the Center's collection. Among the approximately twelve pieces, ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s, in the show is Voulkos’ early seminal twenty-inch tall stoneware Vase/Jar pictured at left; Blue and Gray, a ceramic sculpture made in 1959; several stacked pieces from the late 60s and early 70s as well as a sampling of Voulkos's classic 1970s plates and his later woodfired works, a stack and an ice bucket from the early 1990s. This was an ongoing exhibition which was on display through December 18, 2004. The center is located on the campus at 328 Lomita Drive and Museum Way, off Palm Drive, in Stanford, California. Admission is free for everyone.

For more information about the Center's hours and directions, please contact the gallery by telephone: (650) 723-4177, by fax: (650) 725-0464, by TTY: (650) 723-1216 or visit the museum's website.
 
 


Untitled Plate, 1981
Photo: © Chris Autio
  

 
A Ceramic Continuum: 50 Years of the Archie Bray Influence

The Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana organized an exhibit, Ceramic Continuum: 50 Years of the Archie Bray Influence, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Archie Bray Foundation for the ceramic arts. The show opened at the Holter in June 2001 and traveled nationally for the next 4 years. A 190 page catalogue/book of the show, edited by then director and curator Peter Held, was published which included informative essays by Rick Newby and Chere Juisto, Patricia Failing and Janet Koplos about the Foundation, its origins and its mission, along with colorplates of all the works in the exhibition. It may be obtained directly from either the Holter Museum of Art or the Archie Bray Foundation. The next five venues were:
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, September 17-November 9, 2003
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 7, 2003-February 1, 2004
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, February 29-April 25, 2004
Northwest Mueum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, May 23-July 18, 2004
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, August 15-November 7, 2004
Please email or telephone 406.442.6400 the museum for more information about the exhibition. Please contact the Archie Bray Foundation, for information about the foundation or visit their website.




plate
Plate, 1975
Photo: Pier Voulkos

 
 
  

 
Love, Pete Voulkos

Osceola Gallery in Emeryville, California was proud to present, from a private collection, twenty-three Peter Voulkos clay works ranging from a very large lidded jar made circa 1952 to one of his massive wood fired plates entitled Lofa made in 2000. Among the works on view were one of Voulkos’ rare “blackware” stacks from his first solo show at the Quay Gallery, San Francisco and a mid-seventies gas fired plate formerly in the collection of Daniel Rhodes. A real treat was the inclusion of a 1975 plate which was featured on the cover of Peter Voulkos: A Dialogue with Clay, the first monograph published on his work in 1978, authored by Rose Slivka, and which accompanied his retrospective of the same year. Pictured at left, this elegant plate measures twenty-three inches in diameter. In addition, there were several works on paper and some of Voulkos’ recently cast bronzes.

The exhibit opened May 3rd and was extended through June 16, 2003. The gallery is located in the Besler Building in Emeryville at 4053 Harlan Street. Please email or call the gallery at 510.658.1440 for further information.
 
 

plate
Plate, 1993
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com

 
 
  

 
Peter Voulkos  [1924-2002]

The Charles Cowles Gallery in New York organized a solo exhibition in tribute to Peter Voulkos which opened on May 1, 2003. There was a reception from 6 to 8 PM. The Cowles Gallery has represented Voulkos’ work since 1980 and his first solo show there in 1981 featured the early woodfired works he began making in 1979. The selection of pieces in this recent show represented highlights from the last twenty years including works from Peter Callas’ first anagama in Piermont, New York; the anagama in Peters Valley, New Jersey built and fired by Katsuyuki Sakazume; Torbjorn Kvasbo’s anagama in Norway; the anagama at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Japan and more recently, John Balistreri’s anagama in Bowling Green, Ohio. The lively drawn, twenty-three inch diameter plate pictured at left was among the works in the exhibition. The show was on view through May 31, 2003. The gallery is located in the Chelsea District in Manhattan at 537 West 24th Street. Please email or call the gallery at 212.741.8999 or visit their website for further information.
 
 
Crafting a Legacy: Objects from the American Contemporary Craft Collection

Commemorating twenty-five years of collecting crafts by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Darrel Sewell and Amanda Clifford curated an installation entitled Crafting a Legacy: Objects from the American Contemporary Craft Collection which opened at the museum October 2, 2002 and was on view through some time in July 2003. Accompanying this installation, a catalogue/book, Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, by Suzanne Ramljak, which documents the collection, has been co-published by the museum and Rutgers University Press. Voulkos’ work is included in the publication. For more information, please telephone the museum at: 215.763.8100 or visit the museum's website.
 
 

plate
Plate, 1996
Photo: Sam Jornlin

 
 
  

 
Peter Voulkos: Selected Work 1953-2000

The Frank Lloyd Gallery hosted a solo show of ceramics, prints and bronzes by Peter Voulkos opening March 8, 2003. The ceramics work encompassed mid-fifities wheelthrown works from a classically-formed lidded jar and a rare, splendid slip-trailed vase to some of his early 1980s woodfired plates to the most recent including a couple of 1996 Shigaraki woodfires made from a kenosei clay such as the monumental plate pictured at left. The bronze works derive from several of Voulkos’ stackpots made in the late 60s and 70s and a vase, circa 1961, along with more recent stacks and ice buckets including Alegria S11, Wedge S12, Key West S15, Chaco S16 and Ice Bucket IB5. Some of these bronzes are pictured in the Portfolio section of this website. The exhibit also featured unique drypoints and monotypes Voulkos made in workshops at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado during the last few years. The exhibit was on view through April 5, 2003. The gallery is located in the Bergamot Station Arts Centre in Santa Monica. Please email or call the gallery at 310.264.3866 or visit their website at ArtScene for more information.
 
 
Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group.

The University Art Gallery at the University of California at San Diego installed an exhibition of artwork by Peter Voulkos and some of his students and cohorts with whom he worked from 1954 to 1959 at the Otis Institute of Art then known as the Los Angeles County Art Institute. Entitled Rebels in Clay: Peter Voulkos and the Otis Group, among the subversives represented in this show were Billy Al Bengston, Michael & Magdalena Frimkess, John Mason, Mac McClain, Kenneth Price, Jerry Rothman, Paul Soldner, Henry Takemoto and Voulkos. Many of the works in the show were drawn from the legendary Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics at Scripps College, Claremont, California. This exhibit along with a bevy of ceramics related exhibits in the area was organized on the occasion of the National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts (NCECA) conference being held from March 12 to the 15th in San Diego. Dates of the exhibit were from February 7 to April 19, 2003. The University Art Gallery is located on the campus at 9500 Gilman Drive in La Jolla. For gallery hours, directions and more information, please telephone (858) 534 - 2107 or visit the gallery website. For more information about NCECA, please visit their website.
 
 

Jar
Tall Covered Jar, 1956
Photo: schoppleinstudio.com

 
 
  

 
Clay Works: 20th-Century Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art.

The UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery is Clay Works: 20th-Century Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art, hosted an exhibition comprised of over one hundred objects ranging from porcelains by Adelaide Alsop Robineau, to ceramics by Arthur Baggs, Maija Grotell and Vicktor Schreckengost to contemporary works by Robert Arneson, Toby Buonagurio, Ken Ferguson, Maria Martinez, Voulkos and Betty Woodman from the collection of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Voulkos was represented by works from three decades of his career, a plate from 1962, a larger one from 1978 and, pictured at left, an expressively-decorated, over twenty-five inches high Tall Covered Jar made in 1956. The show was up through March 28, 2003 and traveled to the Everson Museum of Art where it was on view from July 18 to September 7, 2003. The UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery is located at 1285 Avenue of the Americas and 51st Street in New York City. For more information about the exhibition, please telephone 212.713.2885, or visit the UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery website.
 
 
Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy.

The Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey mounted an exhibition of some 175 pieces entitled Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy. Curated by Ulysses Grant Dietz, it opened February 14, 2003 and was on display there until June 1, 2003. Peter Voulkos was represented in the show with an early functional Covered Jar with wax-resist decoration circa 1952. Also called a “cookie jar,” it stands fifteen-and-one-half inches tall. A 200-page catalogue with all color reproductions by photographer Richard Goodbody was published by the museum and Guild Publishing with a grant from the Friends of Contemporary Ceramics and is available from the museum. The Newark Museum, which began collecting ceramics in 1910, is located in the Downtown/Arts District at 49 Washington Street. For general information about the museum, please call 973.596.6550 or 1.800.7MUSEUM or go to the museum's website.
 
 

1977 stack
Stacked Pot, 1977

 
 
  

 
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, Texas hosted this exhibition organized by Helen W. Drutt English in co-operation with the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia and the DesignMuseo in Helsinki, Finland. Entitled Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, it opened February 15, 2003 and was on display through May 3, 2003 at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. The exhibition was partially supported by the Morgan Family Fund and Vincent and Elkins L.L.P. Comprised of works from some seventeen countries, the show featured artists working in ceramics in the Twentieth Century. Helen W. Drutt English gave a talk at the Center on Friday, February 14. Peter Voulkos was represented in the show with works from private collections including an early 1956 Plate and the 1977 gas fired thirty-one inch tall Stacked Pot pictured at left. Photo is courtesy of Helen Drutt: Philadelphia.

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is a nonprofit organization situated in Houston's Museum District at 4848 Main Street. The center is open six days a week and admission is free. For more information about the exhibition, please contact Helen Drutt: Philadelphia by telephone 1.215.735.1625, by email, or visit her website. The Houston Center for Contemporary Art can be contacted by telephone: 713.529.4848, by email or visit the center's website.
 
 
Ceramic Art from an International Perspective

Ceramic Art from an International Perspective is the second part of a special exhibition entitled The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art designed to commemorate the opening of the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Part I of the exhibit was held in 2002 and addressed the evolution of the ceramics art in Japan. Part II features objects showing the development of claywork around the world and includes Voulkos’ circa 1956 sculpture, “Walking Woman.” Dates of this exhibiton were January 25 - March 23, 2003. For more information, please visit the museum's website.
 
 
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organized a show called Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis to honor the support and contributions of longtime patron and advocate of the arts, Phyllis Wattis, to the museum. It opened January 30 and was up until June 24, 2003. Among the events scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition were video screenings of some of the artists whose work was represented in Treasures of Modern Art. For more information, please visit the SFMOMA website or telephone 415.357.4135. A video entitled “Peter Voulkos & the Otis Group” was screened March 1, April 4, May 17 and May 22, 2003 in the Koret Visitor Education Center at the museum.
 
 

 

 
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