Colorado has a rich history in ceramics going back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but it was in the period from the 1950s to the 1990s that the ceramics scene here really hit ...

A mix of orange, yellow and red liquid runs out of a good-sized pipe, pooling on the surface at its edge. At least, that’s how “Spilled Pipe” appears. The most impressive piece in Lauren Mabry’s Lux ...

Jeff Wenzel is one of Colorado’s great abstract artists, with a solid body of work done over the past few decades. Though his roots are in ceramics — he was a protégé of Peter Voulkos, whose ...

Peter Voulkos, the artist who led a revolution in ceramics nearly a half-century ago in Los Angeles and who died last year at 78, is typically identified in relation to the verve and swagger of ...

Working principally in ceramics, Toshiko Takaezu didn’t achieve the acclaim of her male abstract expressionist peers. A new show of her work makes a case for her place in the canon. An Alexander ...

As a youngster, I adored art class. I savored the opportunity to fashion absurd objects out of papier-mâché, construct miniature furniture out of old toilet paper tubes and try my hand at the messy ...

The art of ceramics is very emotional — an artist manipulates the malleable clay to suit his or her vision. Sometimes the master leaves no distinct trace behind on the finished piece, but several ...

Clay is one of the most basic mediums in art, if not the most basic. It is certainly one of the oldest. Literally pulled from the earth, it is transformed from malleable, relatively inert material ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Maine art has always been painterly. An odd word, “painterly” is a very ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months of ...

MISSOULA — There are signs from the outside that one particular house in the Rattlesnake Valley isn't typical. From a distance, it might appear that the homeowners set a cubist smokestack on the porch ...