Clayworks: 20 Americans
June 18 - September 12, 1971
Clayworks: 20 Americans demonstrated the exciting expressions of clay of the 1960s and 1970s. These developments were generated by the legacy of the pioneering educational program established by Charles Binns at Alfred University in 1901, the influence of immigrant artists, and professional teaching programs established after World War II. Peter Voulkos pioneered the break from tradition with his "abstract expressionist” clay forms in the fifties along with a few other West-Coast artists. In the early 1960s, Bob Arneson led a new path identified with pop art that became known as the "funk" movement. The Clayworks: 20 Americans exhibition honed in on this new direction that the world of clay pivoted towards. Rather than focusing on functional, decorative works or ceramics made in the free abstract expressionistic vein, Clayworks: 20 Americans instead centers pieces that use vivid, graphic imagery and rich, colorful surface decoration to comment on the socio-political issues of the era.
Venues
Museum of Contemporary Craft
, 1971-06-18 - 1971-09-12