After graduating from Ohio University in 1958, Dine relocated to New York City and soon became an active participant of Pop art. Today he is recognized as one of the leading figures in Pop art alongside his friends from his early days in New York, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein. Besides countless solo and group exhibitions, Dine has had retrospective exhibitions at the Isetan Museum Tokyo, Japan; the Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York. His work resides in the permanent collections of many museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York. Dine lived in London, England with his family in the late 1960s through the early 1970s and focused on honing both his printmaking and drawing skills. Swaying in the Florida Nights demonstrates the level of mastery Dine attained in printmaking. The trees swaying in the night appear almost figurative and express the artist?s personality.
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Bridge
Clark received a BFA in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1972. He sculpted in stone, but his body of work reflects other media such as bronze, aluminum-welded steel, and wood. His sculpture and paintings have been included in numerous one-man and group exhibitions, and he is represented in private collections internationally. Painting and printmaking were also important in his overall production. Clark taught sculpture and drawing from 1976-1978 at the Aegean School, and had several one-man exhibitions at the Diogenes Gallery in Plaka, Athens, Greece. In 1977 his work was represented in the International Invitational Show of Young Sculptors at the Museum Skironio-Polychronopolous, also in Athens. In 1971 received a grant from the Kansas City Art Institute and studied Greece. This experience affected his work dramatically. Clark said, “I came to Greece in order to study the classical sculpture and the village architecture on the islands. I chose Paros specifically because it has both the sculpture and the architecture, as well as the finest marble in the world, and the peaceful life necessary for my own work.”
Vase and Stand
Ferguson was Chairman of the Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department for more than thirty years. Voted one of the 12 greatest living potters in 1981 by readers of Ceramics Monthly, Ferguson has received numerous honors over the years. The recipient of two National Endowments for the Arts grants for craftsmen, a Mid-America College Arts Award for Studio Art, a Tiffany grant and an Alliance of Independent Colleges of Arts grant he has received demonstrate how he has been recognized as much for his teaching as his art work. He has a reputation for inspiring his students to develop their own idiosyncratic styles while simultaneously instilling a respect for the medium of clay and its history. He has had over 100 exhibitions worldwide including a retrospective exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 1995. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Syracuse, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the American Craft Museum in New York City are among the numerous public and private collections worldwide that include works by Ferguson.
Tabula Rasa (Translation: Blank Slate)
Beckman grew up in Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon, where he studied both art and creative writing before completing his Master of Art and Fine Arts degree at the University of New Mexico. He traveled throughout Europe during his college days, and considers this experience one of the main influences upon his art. Beckman also lists notable sculptors Martin Puryear and Mark Lere as having affected his work. Beckman has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/Southern Arts Federation Artist?s Fellowship and a State of Florida Individual Artist?s Fellowship. His solo exhibitions have been reviewed in Art in America, Artpapers, Sculpture Magazine, Visions and the L.A. Times. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Beckman has a special fondness for this early work, titled Tabula Rasa, since he constructed it from a chalkboard he found during his graduate days. It remains the only piece to date that the artist has made of slate. He often uses the symbolic and universal form of the circle as a source for his work, and this early work is no exception. The artist compares this minimalist work to a short poem because of its simplicity, and states that, ?it says all that needs to be said in a very efficient way.? Exploring the dynamic balance that exists between opposites pervades Beckman?s works. In Tabula Rasa the kinetic aspect mars the effect of the cold metal and slate and instead invites physical interaction with the sculpture.
Scott Joplin Maple Leaf Rag: Sculpted Sound Wave
Mr. Mongrain grew up in the small northern Minnesota town of International Falls, traditionally the coldest place in the continental United States. As a ceramic artist he circumvents the traditional use of clay in his work by using the medium to explore content. There is an iconic presence to these meticulously crafted sculptures as the artist subtly alters the symbolism of everyday objects to create distinct and provocative forms. The core of Jeffrey’s subject matter is the human presence found in issues of faith and science. Many of his objects have a relationship with the Victorian buildings of Glasgow, Scotland where Jeffrey lived and taught for seven years.
Large Open Bowl
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Kaneko has been hailed as one of the leading ceramics sculptors of the 20th century. He left Japan and attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California in 1964. Paul Soldner and Peter Voulkos are among the prominent ceramic artists whom Kaneko studied under at various institutions throughout the United States. Works by this artist can be found in numerous museums throughout the United States and Japan. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the American Crafts Museum in New York and museum collections in his native Japan are just a few of the places where Kaneko?s work has been exhibited.