Ceramics

Ceramic with wool and acrylic yarn 50.5"h x 18"w x 23"d

Glazed thrown and altered stoneware, ht. 21, wd. 11 in.; acquired directly from the artist.

Pink Pup

ceramic 6"h x 6"w 9"d Provenance: Sotheby's New York, June 7, 2002, Lot 119

Having transitioned from a utile ceramic practice into a looser, artistic role, Rosen works to prise open gaps between function, decoration & sculpture. “Velo” is typical of the extravagant and often peculiar way in which the material influences her gestures and resulting form, the ceramic built to co-opt and inhabit a semi-organic state of being, the thick and colourful glaze laminating the texture of the form and giving it a shell or coral-like personality.

“Venus” has the honesty present in much of Dahl’s work, owing to the continued use of a clay which fires to a natural white finish — affording her ceramics a clean and monosyllabic presence that veils their complexity. A biological subsistence hangs over, the artist repeating patterns and forming a coaction between petals or flowers and the gentle swells and curls of porcelain.

MICHAEL LUCERO (b. 1953) "Venus" sculpture (Reclamation series),1990s; Glazed and painted ceramic, reclaimed chalkware sculpture, stone base, steel; Signed; Approx.: 40" x 17" x 12" Sculpture is in two parts: the glazed and painted ceramic pots lift off of the nude sculpture. Base is in "found" condition

Combining nascent technology with ancient and typified form, Blacklock’s 3d printed ceramics are one result of a group exhibition instigated in 2014 by the artist, and involving five artists and 3d Systems — a company dedicated to developing new formats of printer that explore different base materials to print in. The CeraJet, a 3d printing technology capable of printing objects in ceramic, allows the design and rapid creation of remarkably intricate forms, Blacklock’s vessels find permeable and altogether more sculptural than immediately functional state — each core punctured with geometric holes in remarkable honeycomb-like construction. “Vessel 14b” gives a tangible sense of how the piece has been created by the printer; the ceramic, built up in coiling layers, seems caught in a viscous stasis after firing — the resulting patterns manifesting many relationships between figurative or decorative wares. 3D printing in clay