Precedents: Past Meets Present in Contemporary Glass and Clay
Artists gather influences from an almost endless variety of sources including cultural, social, and historical people, places, and ideas, as well as personal experiences and perspectives, and, last but not least, the work of other artists and other creatives. Whether or not an individual contemporary artist is directly inspired by an object or image from the past, it can be useful to compare and contrast recently made work with older similar examples. This kind of juxtaposition offers new contexts for understanding how motifs resurface regularly through generations, how much variety is possible within the dynamic of objects made in a certain material of relative size, and how artists might look at each other鈥檚 work for inspiration.
While RAM has an array of work in the collection, this particular exhibition was spurred by the recent acquisition of a number of nineteenth-century glass goblets and mid-twentieth-century ceramic vessels. A selection of contemporary goblets鈥攑art of a gift of more than 100 works from various artists鈥攚ill be paired with historic pieces. The goblets of Frtiz Dreisbach and James Minson, to name just two, reflect contemporary approaches that incorporate tradition yet also expand upon it. Small-scale ceramics including vases and bowls from early-twentieth-century producers鈥攕uch as Van Briggle Pottery and Weller Pottery鈥攁re paired with works from later in the century. These contemporary works include brilliantly-colored Feelies from Rose Cabat and a patterned vessel from Acoma Pueblo maker, Margaret Ascencio.
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Artists gather influences from an almost endless variety of sources including cultural, social, and historical people, places, and ideas, as well as personal experiences and perspectives, and, last but not least, the work of other artists and other creatives. Whether or not an individual contemporary artist is directly inspired by an object or image from the past, it can be useful to compare and contrast recently made work with older similar examples. This kind of juxtaposition offers new contexts for understanding how motifs resurface regularly through generations, how much variety is possible within the dynamic of objects made in a certain material of relative size, and how artists might look at each other鈥檚 work for inspiration.
While RAM has an array of work in the collection, this particular exhibition was spurred by the recent acquisition of a number of nineteenth-century glass goblets and mid-twentieth-century ceramic vessels. A selection of contemporary goblets鈥攑art of a gift of more than 100 works from various artists鈥攚ill be paired with historic pieces. The goblets of Frtiz Dreisbach and James Minson, to name just two, reflect contemporary approaches that incorporate tradition yet also expand upon it. Small-scale ceramics including vases and bowls from early-twentieth-century producers鈥攕uch as Van Briggle Pottery and Weller Pottery鈥攁re paired with works from later in the century. These contemporary works include brilliantly-colored Feelies from Rose Cabat and a patterned vessel from Acoma Pueblo maker, Margaret Ascencio.
Artists on show
- Akio Takamori
- Beatrice Wood
- Boyd R. Sugiki
- Brad Copping
- Cesare Toffolo
- Charles Savoie
- Cliff Lee
- Dante Marioni
- Donavon Boutz
- Edward Richard Cromey
- Eileen Lewenstein
- Elio Quarisa
- Elizabeth Ryland Mears
- Fritz Dreisbach
- George Ohr
- Harvey Littleton
- Harvey Sadow
- Herbert Sanders
- Irina Zaytceva
- Jade Snow Wong
- James Lovera
- James Minson
- Joseph Pagano
- Karen Gilbert
- Karen Karnes
- Kayo O'Young
- Kishi Eiko
- Ludwig Moser
- Margaret Ascencio
- Margaret Neher
- Margaret Ponce Israel
- Maria Montoya Martinez
- Nancy Y. Adams
- Natalie Surving
- Nik Christensen
- Ola Hoglund & Marie Simberg - Hoglund
- Peter Greenwood
- Peter Lenzo
- Phillip Maberry
- Randy Strong
- Richard Marquis
- Rito Talavera Quezada
- Robert W. Stephan
- Rose Cabat
- Roseline Delisle
- Roseville Pottery
- Sean Bradley
- Stephen Smyers
- Suzan Benzle
- Theophilus Hansen
- Tracy Glover
- Van Briggle Art Pottery
- Warren MacKenzie
- Weller Pottery
- William Wilhelmi
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