Sunday, February 14, 2010

Making a point with Prints on Clay


Grayson Perry


Stephen Dixon


Paul Scott

These European Ceramic artists all use processes of printmaking and decals on traditional ceramic forms in order to speak directly to the history of European decorative ceramics. I think there is something grounded and readable about using these very traditional functional forms that can act as blank canvases for the layers of detailed information. The imagery and surface is beautiful in itself but on closer observation there is political content. I appreciate the layering and collage aspects that reference printmaking. There is something of an element of recycling what we already know so well...using found objects and imagery to create a social dialog about what we are over saturated with.

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