Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

 

Watching the watcher

 

Liesbeth Rutten

Vertrouwen, NL

 

A collection of innovative ceramics for aficionados of the audacious, quirky and original arts. On display are expressive figures indulging in varying degrees of scrutiny and perception, from the self absorbed to the inquisitive, contemplative and incisive and including forms that are hybrid, fractured, holistic and abstract. Fertile titillation to the imagination never goes astray and I applaud these artists for providing such amusing vehicles of flight into fantasy through courting the unpredictable, eccentric and surreal. Idiocentric visionaries providing escapism from the conventional while forever stretching the boundaries to tease the parameters of reality. Leading to a captivating conclusion from following an adventurous spirit of creativity and independence, sometimes beyond the threshold of rationality, with touches of humor, brilliance and the thought provoking.

 

 

Woman’s Head designed by Rudolf Knörlein for Goldscheider

Vienna, 1930

 

 

Cubist vase Charmaine Haines

French Experience Collection photo Marie Clair DeBourg

 

 

 

Ann Agee, porcelain ‘Tulip Vase’

1994

 

 

Paul Di Pasquale Jimmy Dean sculpture

“Connecticut”— the historic Lucky Strike building overlooking the James River tidal  basin

2010

 

 

Large Sitting Fox – Gin Durham

photo Paul Wilkinson

 

 

Galina Bulganin

 

 

 

‘Horta’ – Fons Bemelmans

 

 

‘The Inner Door’ –  Abstract sculpture in green and gilded patina bronze by Cantarel

1970’s

ABC Pascal, Paris

 

 

A sculpture at the entrance to Anton Smit’s Sculpture park located in Bronkhorstspruit, Sth. Africa

 

 

 

George Lafayette – Spirit Guide series

See more George Lafayette sculptures here

 

 

“David and Saul” – Arthur Boyd

c. 1951 Murrumbeena, Melbourne

 

 

 

‘Crimson Hoop’ – Bryan Hiveley 

‘My abstract sculptures present surface textures that are candy-like and color-saturated; they reverberate in the space between oppositional constructs such as artifice/natural, synthetic/organic’

 

 

Mannequin head

 

 

Michael Lucero — ‘Watching Wishing’

 

 

“It’s a masterpiece”

Peter Sellers in Dr.Strangelove

 

 

Bouke de Vries – ‘War & pieces (cloud), 18th, 19th, 20th century’

2012

 

 

‘Comfort Zone’ by Calvin Ma

 

 

Whimsical Bird and Rabbit Sculpture by Cathy Meincer

 

 

 

Chandra DeBuse – ‘Two Tiered Treat Server’

 

 

 

Christine Kaiser — ‘Bird Girl’

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‘Conversation through a Wall’ —- Ricardas Lukosiunas

 

 

 

Dai Li

 

 

Dorota Urbaniak Pelka

 

 

 

Teresa Girones ceramic bust

 

 

 

 

Frances Doherty with her Blue Bells

Picture by Peter Boam

 

 

 

‘Mystery Alley’ – Minoru Karamatsu – flickr

Japan

 

 

Teapot, 2014, by Kevin Snipes

 

 

Frances Baruch

 

 

 

Kicking up heels – E.Krasnova

 

 

UK sculptor Eoghan Bridge

 

 

 

Eva Kwong

 

 

 

Theodoros Papagiannis, Greece

 

 

 

Evelyn Tannus ceramic whippet

 

 

 

 

‘Lady and Bird’ — Tania Babb

 

 

 

‘Flappers’ —by Ruth Aizuss Migdal

 

 

‘Gifts for the kids playing with fire’ – Jason Walker

 

 

 

Jo Ilona

 

 

 

‘He thinks in his garden’ – John and Robin Gumaelius

Robin creates all the colorful ceramic surface imagery and complex decorative glazes, and then John takes over and adds the exquisite metal armatures that bring the sculptures to life.

 

 

 

Marie Madeleine Gautier

 

 

 

‘Floating Torso With Head’  – Alexander Archipenko

1935

 

 

 

Joanne Jaffe — ‘First Born’

 

 

 

Joe Lawrence   Two sailor/fishermen busts

 

 

Keti Anastasaki, Toronto

 

 

 

Mayan Ruins at Chichen Itza – Yucatan, Mexico

 

 

 

Mieke van den Hoogen

 

 

 

Mutsuo  Yanagihara

 

 

 

Literary Bust Elvis Figure – Sandra Trujillo

 

 

 

Sigita Lukosiunas- ‘Tea Break’

 

 

 

Susie McMahon

 

 

 

‘Taumango luka’ –  Woodrow-Nash

 

 

 

Raku Zen monk – Jo Ilona

 

 

 

Tiffany Schmierer – ‘Links 300’

 

 

 

‘Thirst’ – Troskulys Ricardas Lukosiunas

 

 

Outdoor Pachamama Museum

The Amaicha Pachamama Museum is the work of Héctor Cruz, an artist of the valley which, after studying the pre-Inca cultures, decided to use them as inspiration for his work

 

 

 

Outdoor sculpture – Hector Cruz

Pachamama Museum

 

 

‘Pygothia’ – Cheryl Tall

2010

 

 

 

‘Unicorn Clock’  — Studio Cela 37  —  Dorota Urbaniak Pelka and Jerzy Pelka

 

 

 

Cubist mosaic bust – Deborah Halpern

 

 

 

Valentina Kuznetsova garden sculpture

 

 

 ‘Squirrel’  wool relief panel by Master Adjika

Minsk

 

 

 

Statue and fountain named Cleo –  attributed to Ruth Blackwell of the Iannelli studio

Pickwick Theater lobby

 

 

‘Triadisches Ballett’ (Triadic Ballet) – Oskar Schlemmer

1922

 

Watching pots dry – photo Walter Bossard

Sheikh Abu Bakarwith with the walls of the old fort of Purana Kila in the background, Delhi

 

 

 

Virgil Ortiz

 

 

 

‘Figure A Red’  – Patti Warashina

2009

 

 

 

Yayoi Kusama Gallery

 

 

 

‘Rastafarian Octopus’

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Jimenez Deredia

 

 

 

Untitled Assemblage – Andrew Casto

2011

 

 

 

‘The Low’ – Jo Ilona

 

 

 

‘The Angel’ –  Numa Ayrinhac

Cementerio de Pigue.

 

 

‘Black Eye’– Paul Pasquale

 – raku on canvas with raw cotton

 

 

 

‘Suzie’ – Jackie Alonzo ceramic bust

 

 

 

‘Maidens in Contemplation’, signed Green

late 20th century

 

 

 

 

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