Adrian Saxe

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Adrian Saxe
Born1943
Glendale, California
Nationality American
Known for Ceramic art
AwardsGuggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Website http://www.adriansaxe.com/

Adrian Saxe is an American ceramic artist who was born in Glendale, California in 1943. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. [1]

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Biography

Saxe studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, California) from 1965 to 1969 and earned a B.F.A. degree at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California). [2] Saxe's early works were primarily site-specific sculpture that employed large arrays of modular ceramic sections. Later, he turned to producing ornate vessels.

He has produced work for major solo and group exhibitions around the world and in 1983 he became the first artist fellow in residency at L’Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Creation de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres in France. [3] His work was the subject of a major mid-career survey organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1993–94, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shigaraki, Japan, and to the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ. [4]

In a 1993 review of Saxe's work, art critic Christopher Knight wrote:

“With outrageous humor and unspeakable beauty, he makes intensely seductive objects that exploit traditional anthropomorphic qualities associated with ceramics. Having pressed the question of the utility of his own art in a post-industrial world, his work engages us in a dialogue about our own place in a radically shifting cultural universe. The result is that Saxe has become the most significant ceramic artist of his generation.” [5]

Saxe is currently a professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. [6]

Museum collections

Solo exhibitions

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References

  1. ↑ UCLA Art Department faculty page
  2. ↑ Craft in America Archived January 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Journal of Occupational Science, An Interview with Adrian Saxe, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2004, pp. 40–44
  4. ↑ Frank Lloyd Gallery artist biography Archived May 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Knight, Christopher (November 13, 1993). "Art Review: The Human Value of California Clay: Adrian Saxe Uses and Undermines Tradition in LACMA Exhibition". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  6. ↑ "UCLA Department of Art | Faculty". Art.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  7. ↑ "ASU Art Museum Ceramics Collection". Archived from the original on April 9, 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
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