Feats of clay: Ceramic creations of Montana artists headline new exhibit Aug 30, 2008
Included in the exhibit is work by the four men who are credited with bringing ceramics into the national fine-art conversation: Rudy Autio, Peter Voulkos, David Shaner and Pete Meloy. All four have deep Montana ties, yet rarely have they been featured in a single exhibit. (Missoulian, MT)
Read Indepth Article Aug 29, 2008
Her interest in modern and contemporary West Coast artists is demonstrated in her curation of The Art of Peter Voulkos, Dorothea Lange: Archive of an Artist, Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown, and Wayne Thiebaud. She spent fourteen years at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and then moved to the Oakland Museum of California where she is Senior Curator. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Sculptor Bruce Beasley makes it big in Beijing Aug 6, 2008
He moved there in 1964, two years after graduating from UC Berkeley, where he worked with the volcanic Peter Voulkos. In 1962, the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought one of Beasley's welded cast iron works and the next year he won the prestigious Purchase Prize at the Biennale de Paris. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tea Bowls and tea bowls Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony Bowls by Peter Callas, Joe Campbell, Kristin Muller, Takao Okazaki, and Shane Sellers Jun 16, 2008
Kristin Muller An MFA Candidate at Hood College in Frederick MD, Kristin Muller has participated in a multitude of workshops with artists including Peter Voulkos, Peter Callas, Takao Okazaki and others ... Shane Sellers Shane Sellers holds an MFA in 3-D Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. Professional experience includes Workshop assistant - Peter Callas Studios with Peter Voulkos, Don Reitz, and Rudy Autio. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Grace & tension Apr 15, 2008
American artist Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) is credited with helping raise the form to new possibilities. Gallagher's influences include Stephen De Staebler, Manuel Neri, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) and David Smith (1906-1965). (Fresno Bee)
Ceramics show more about art than clay Nov 26, 2007
Though there are shadows of Peter Voulkos and the rough-hewn remnants of the 1970s, a postmodern eclecticism, including the incorporation of subtly crafted and detailed surfaces, is predominant. Some of the work is conceptual. (Anchorage Daily News)
California College of the Arts at 100: Its writing program sizzles Aug 20, 2007
In the 1960s, alumni Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos and Viola Frey helped instigate the ceramics revolution. Alumni Nathan Oliveira and Manuel Neri were leaders in the Bay Area figurative art movement. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rudy Autio, 1926-2007 / Ceramic artist, icon left trailblazing legacy Jun 21, 2007
During his time in Bozeman, Autio met two other people who would become essential influences and supporters in his life: his future wife, Lela, and fellow artist Peter Voulkos ... ogether with Peter Voulkos, Rudy helped change what it meant to be a ceramic artist in America, said Glueckert ... A 1980 article from American Crafts magazine asserted that, f Peter Voulkos has been considered the Picasso of the American sculptural ceramics movement, then Rudy Autio is its Matisse. (Missoulian, MT)
Art lecture Thursday at di Rosa Preserve Jun 12, 2007
Featured artists at the preserve who are alumni of CCA are Robert Arneson, Robert Bechtle, Robert Brady, Karen Breschi, Jamie Brunson, Squeak Carnwath, Viola Frey, Daniel Galvez, Gerald Gooch, Todd Hido, David Ireland, Richard McLean, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, Dennis Oppenheim, Sono Osato, Raymond Saunders, Peter Voulkos and Paul Wonner. There will also be a panel discussion Thursday, June 14, at 6:30 p.m. titled "Artists, Art Schools and Museums: A Conversation." Lawrence Rinder, dean of... (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Men of Steel Apr 20, 2007
Mr. Stewart, who began casting in 1975, has cast sculpture for Selma Burke, Kiki Smith, J. Seward Johnson Jr., Peter Voulkos and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. He has cast several pieces for Mr. Docktor in the past five years. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Otto Natzler, 99; glazer of daring ceramics Apr 18, 2007
"The Natzlers are to vessels as ceramist Peter Voulkos is to sculpture renowned for their handling of materials, for their ability to create the perfect object by coaxing soulfulness anima out of inert, inchoate and meaningless clay," said Jo Lauria, an independent curator and specialist in contemporary decorative arts in Los Angeles. Otto Natzler was born Jan. 31, 1908, in Vienna to a dentist and a housewife. (Los Angeles Times)
