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American Masters of Ceramics Collection
Peter Voulkos Henry Gernhardt
5.75" x 4.0"
The American revolution in contemporary ceramic art started here. The ceramic works of Peter Voulkos and Henry Gernhardt are unmistakable to the eyes of a collector or student of fine art. Once the viewer sees their work, you will not forget it and the power and freedom it displays.
The perfection of the craft in all technical ways that is suddenly and surprisingly transformed into another artistically perfect creation. The emergence of these two relations morphed into these vessels, that in part revolutionized American contemporary pottery. The combined touch of these Great American Masters created a series of museum quality art for serious art collectors.
The American Revolution in Contemporary Art.
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Henry Gernhardt has worked with Pete Voulkos, Frans Wildenhain, & Stanley Boxer. He taught Art at Syracuse University in New York, The School for American Craftsmen in Rochester, NY; Brookfield Craft Center, Haystack Mountain School, and Munson-Williams Proctor Art Institute. Today, he is focusing on award-winning contemporary sculpture and sculptural vessels.
After serving in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946, he entered Montana State College, earning a B.S. degree in 1951 and, the following year, an M.F.A. degree at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Returning to Montana in 1952, he established a pottery workshop in Helena. In 1953 while teaching a three-week summer course at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Voulkos met innovative figures in the arts such as Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage, which significantly influenced the direction of his work.
In 1954 Voulkos became chairman of the new ceramics department at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. His pottery shop soon became the mecca for artists in the area, launching the Los Angeles clay movement, with Voulkos as its leader. Despite the accolades for his work, Voulkos began to feel constrained by the traditional forms of pottery. His Black Mountain connections led to his meeting Franz Kline and other abstract expressionist artists in New York. Absorbing their ideas, he sought to use clay as an expressive, sculptural medium and began to execute many works on a monumental scale.
In 1959 Voulkos became a professor of design and sculpture at the University of California at Berkeley.
Kenneth R. Trapp and Howard Risatti Skilled Work: American Craft in the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)
Artist Biography
In 1972, alter nearly a decade working primarily as a sculptor in metals, Peter Voulkos returned to ceramics. In the mid-1950s, he had virtually reinvented the field by introducing into clay, issues, and techniques previously restricted to contemporary painting and sculpture. In the early 1970s, Voulkos concentrated on two basic ceramic forms: three-tiered, sculptural "stack pots," and large, stoneware platters. He had first experimented with platelike forms in the late 1950s and early 1960s, slashing, gouging, punching, tearing, and rearranging their common, archetypal shapes. Typically, he spontaneously brushed vivid slips, or epoxy paints onto their altered surfaces. By contrast, the new series of platters were very different.
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