Merritt College
2010 Spring Semester
Molly Prier, Instructor
May 7, 2010
Peter Voulkas: Oakland Museum of calcium Art
The fresh refurbished OMOCA is a treat, especially the art floor. Instead of the more-or-less historical groupings of whole works of art, the gallery is now divided into California People, California Landscape, and California Creativity, plus special exhibition spaces. I was disappointed in not finding on exhibit one of my ducky works in the OMOCA collection: their enormousr-than-life Deborah Butterfield horse sculpture. However, the ceramic collection in the center of the California Creativity naval division is marvelous, especially the central feature: the work of Peter Voulkas. He is represented there by three of his early usable works from the early 1950s (Photo 1) and by three after abstractions, {Solano, 1959; Plate, 1962; and Ice Bucket, 1993 (Photo 2)} There is a video of Voulkas working in his studio. He is shown with a piece of two-by-four, essentially a large wooden shaping tool, attacking (slapping and gouging) a large the Great Compromiser form.
The contrast between his early and later pieces reminds me of seeing the uncommonly good sketches that Picasso did as a young artist, which rival Albrecht Dürers drawings. Similarly a quote from Voulkas, Clay is want music. You have to know the structure of music and how to make lowering before you can come up with anything.
I corresponding both the functional and the abstract. From my own experience at the rack and working with slabs I have some appreciation for the skill and experience it takes to produce a bonnie vase or other classic ceramic shape. Im beginning to treasure the skill and experience that is necessary to produce a beautiful abstraction.
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