Character Studies: Clay from the Collection

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The Bay Area has long been an important center for pioneering clay movements. In the 1960s, ceramic artists radically rethought traditional approaches to ceramics and the history of clay as a functional, vessel-based art form. Key artists such as Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, and Viola Frey brought expressive potential and experimental techniques to traditional methods of clay sculpting, ultimately transforming the field. This exhibition draws from the museum's collection of contemporary ceramics and features figurative sculptures created in Northern California in the last forty years. The ceramic sculptures in this exhibition are expressions of the human figure ranging from earthy abstractions to larger-than-life busts and whimsical characters.

The exhibition brings together revolutionary practices in clay from an earlier generation while looking forward to new shifts and experimentation taking place today. The works on view vary greatly in form—from Stan Welsh's satirical heads and Viola Frey's colossal Fire Suit (1983) to Stephen DeStaebler's preternatural abstraction of the body and Wanxin Zhang's politically charged monumental persona. The exhibition features additional works by permanent collection artists Robert Arneson, Dennis Gallagher, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Danae Mattes, Anthony Natsoulas, Richard Shaw, Peter Vandenberge, and Betty Woodman, complemented by a still-life sculpture by Monica Van Den Dool.

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San Jose Museum of Art
110 S Market St
San Jose, CA
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  1. San Jose Museum of Art
    110 S Market St, San Jose, CA