Howard Kottler Ceramics Artist

1961 robert sperry art pottery ceramic vase vessel 9 3 4 tall nw artist.

Howard kottler ceramics artist.

As a leader in the seattle funk movement kottler s works in the early 1960s were hand formed organic sculptural shapes with rough surfaces made by the use of organic materials that. Make offer rare robert sperry gold luster with butterfly decal vase howard kottler inf. Make offer 1961 robert sperry art pottery ceramic vase vessel 9 3 4 tall nw artist. Degree in biological sciences in 1952 an m a.

Howard kottler is known as an innovator in his choice of subject matter and his use of commercially available porcelain blanks ready made molds and decals. In ceramics in 1956 and a ph d. Artist s statement howard kottler the 1960 s was an unbelievable period in american life. In ceramics in 1964 all at ohio state university he studied with maija grotell at the cranbrook academy of art where he earned an m f a.

After earning a master s degree and ph d. Sep 24 2013 by the mid 1960s kottler had succeeded in forging a link between his work and the major new directions in painting and sculpture. Shortly after his schooling at cranbrook where he studied with maija grotell and ohio state university he began teaching in the department of art of the university of washington seattle. Ceramics kottler s work changed direction after the move to seattle.

Degree in 1957 that same year he was awarded a fulbright grant for study in finland. Born in clevland howard kottler earned a b a. No one can imagine the full extent of. Her doctoral dissertation identifying the use of satire in the ceramic work of robert arneson howard kottler and david gilhooly has since expanded her interest to identify an international movement of artists who use clay confrontationally more specifically those artists who employ clay to reveal personal alienations social and.

Influenced by pop art and funk art kottler began making colorful highly erotic sculptures and vessels using a wide variety. Howard william kottler march 5 1930 january 21 1989 was an american ceramist conceptual artist and professor of ceramics at the university of washington credited as a seminal force in redefining the direction of contemporary american ceramic art. Kottler came to consider himself an artist potter who sought to link ceramics to the broader context of the world of modern art rather than a studio potter who takes inspiration from ceramic history and tradition. The females she sends out into the world have been making waves since the 1970s when she robert sperry and howard kottler ran the ceramics program at the university of washington and brought it.

Howard kottler was a seminal force in shaping the direction of contemporary american ceramic sculpture.