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...Gallery is proud to be the only American gallery that shows Fance Franck's work-this is the second year the gallery's spring show has been devoted to her. Franck is an American expatriate living in Paris whose work has been widely shown in Europe. She's a ceramist, or potter, depending on what you think of her very distinct style. Her bowls and vases are always porcelain and always small, due to the limitations of her kiln. They come in a few very specific shapes-round, rectangular, oval or flat. She takes a simple shape and varies...
DIED. BEATRICE WOOD, 105, ceramist and bon vivant, whose affairs with early 20th century artists and writers earned her the name "Mama of Dada"; near Ojai, Calif. Wood, who credited her longevity to "chocolate and young men," also inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic...
...Ceramist Ken Price proves that real sculpture doesn't have...
Anyone who still believes in rigid divisions of importance between craft and fine art -- pottery and sculpture, for instance -- could do worse than visit the show by the California ceramist Ken Price, now on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Artists have been making sculpture out of baked clay since the dawn of time -- mud was God's medium for fashioning Adam -- and yet, in America, there lingers an irrational feeling that "real" sculpture ought to be made of steel, or bronze, or stone, or wood: anything but clay, in fact...
...light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she was never quite so leathery as she appeared. Robinson's final chapters suggest a Tennessee Williams scenario, with an old woman smitten and exploited by her handsome protege, ceramist Juan Hamilton. Over the family's protests, Hamilton manipulated the painter's affairs until her death in 1986. He was eventually awarded 24 paintings and her house...