Peter Voulkos
dal 30/4/2003 al 31/5/2003
Segnalato da
30/4/2003
Peter Voulkos
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
This exhibition is a tribute to artist's legendary contribution in ceramics and sculpture. His artistic legacy will live on in the vitality of his man-handled plates, buckets and stacks.
[1924-2002]
This exhibition is a tribute to PETER VOULKOS's legendary contribution in ceramics and sculpture. His artistic legacy will live on in the vitality of his man-handled plates, buckets and stacks. During the twenty-two years that the Charles Cowles Gallery represented VOULKOS, he achieved his most aggressive and ambitious works including his iconic wood-fired sculptures. The Gallery is pleased to represent the Voulkos Family Trust.
Known for the vibrance of his workshop demonstrations, VOULKOS was the consummate showman. In Roberta Smith's New York Times obituary, "Few artists have changed a medium as markedly or single-handedly as Mr. Voulkos, a large, muscular man with a charismatic personality and a voracious appetite for work, learning and experimentation." Sam Jornlin, VOULKOS's longtime assistant says, "his work is visceral, edgy and tough but at the same time, delicate and elegant x{2013} a dichotomy." The works in the exhibition highlight these qualities with a selection of pieces from the last twenty years.
PETER VOULKOS revolutionized ceramics by transcending the boundary between craft and art. Influenced by New York Abstract Expressionism, VOULKOS emerged in the 1950s as the first ceramic artist to move his clay forms from a functional context into the realm of deep personal expression. VOULKOS created an astounding body of sculpture that quickly gained him international recognition. In 1959 he won the Rodin Museum Prize for sculpture at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and in 1960 had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
VOULKOS's work has been exhibited around the world and is in major public collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
Opening reception May 1 - 6 to 8 pm
The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery at 537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday. There will be a reception Thursday, May 1, from 6-8 pm.
For further information or photographs, please contact the galleries.
Image: Untitled (Stack), 1995
537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea