Ron Nagle’s ceramics lie somewhere between object and art; on the one hand they are there to use and on the other to simply enjoy, and perhaps make you think. Initially the San Francisco-born artist used clay primarily to make the former, focusing on vessels....
One of the best things about ceramics' recent ascent in the art world is that a brighter light has been shone on designers who were practicing in the medium long before "urban claymaking" was ever a thing. The latest artist to experience a massive upswing in attention is Ron Nagle, the San Francisco–based postwar ceramicist who, in his 70s, still adds to his already massive body of work at an amazing clip. Shown at the last art Biennale in Venice, Nagle is currently the subject of both an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art and a lovely feature in the new issue of PIN-UP Magazine, who writes of Nagle's process: "Each [piece] boasts the presence of a monument covered in variations of fine stucco textures sprayed with layers of pastel, blush fields often overtaken by thick glazed pools and electric pinstripes. The pieces begin as collections of hand sculpted elements, and are slip cast, carved and fitted to each other, gaining their deep beds of color from multiple firings that are finished with chinapaint. The forms have shifted in theme through his career: from lean green tendrils hailing from ikebana to diorama scenes housing pulsing red cubes." We're particularly fond of a recurring trope in Nagle's work that resembles glassy spears of asparagus, so we've rounded up a few of our favorite examples here.
Chow Mein Man, 2013, 4.88H x 6W x 2.38D in mixed media. Photo Credit: Don Tuttle 2014 Featured Artists SeriesThursday, August 7, 2014RON NAGLE Ron
Ron Brown - Seattle - 2024
Galerie Lefebvre & fils - Céramiques anciennes et contemporaines
Ron Nagle - Artworks - Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, ParisBorn in San Francisco, California, in 1939Ron Nagle makes small compositions of mysterious forms that invite contemplation and intense study and which defy and encompass traditional boundaries between ceramics, sculpture, and painting. Nagle is part of the Abstract Expressionist Ceramics movement led by Peter Voulkos.Freely mixing clay with other techniques, his inspirations are as diverse as the origins of his artworks’ titles. His condensed pieces are highly evocative, evoking a range of emotional responses from sheer eroticism to visceral discomfort. Intertwining vices, the vocabularies of gluttony and lust easily mingle in describing Nagle’s dribbling bright and luscious drips of enamel, iridescent, pastel, and velvety surfaces, spilling holes, perforations, and folds. Each of his little sculpted clay objects are fragments of a small world, a miniature scene on which a small event has been captured. Every little piece by Nagle tells a long story.
Ron Nagle, Contessa, 1983 •
San Francisco-based artist Ron Nagle, a pioneer of California clay movement, opens an exhibition of his funky ceramics at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York
John uses his functional forms as a canvas for his explanation of strong new vibrant slips, an art clearly influenced by his love of painters like Howard Hodgkin, Robert Natkin and Patrick Heron, as well as his appreciation of Aboriginal, Tibetan, Buddhist and Zen art.
Modern Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Ron Nagle.
Ron Nagle is a ceramics pioneer with a new exhibition at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
RMI Electra-piano 368 models keyboards were the electric pianos keyboardist Ron Mael used during Sparks' Island years. Read more about this instrument...
Ron Nagle Will Unveil a New Set of Eccentric Sculptures at New York’s Matthew Marks Gallery: From September 11 to October 23.
What Is Ronnnie Up To? Leave Your Clues At The Link!
Neil MacDonell Recent Ceramics, Contemporary Studio Ceramics, Modern Ceramics, Pottery, Clay Faces
Contessa, 1983 | Ron Nagle
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Telegrinnies - Ron English
Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Paris, Yo Akiyama, Jos Devriendt, Joseph Dirand, Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, Jean Girel, Jacques Grange, Karin Gulbran, Kazunori Hamana, Tomonari Hashimoto, Aya Hatano, Yuki Hayama, Valérie Hermans, Herzog & de Meuron, Daisuke Iguchi, Imaemon XIV, Sakaida Kakiemon XV, Yoshiro Kimura, Elisabeth Kley, Laurence Kluft, Takuro Kuwata, Jennifer Lee, Kristin McKirdy, Shozo Michikawa, Ritsue Mishima, Jihei Murase, Ron Nagle, Magdalene Odundo, Yoichi Ohira, Rick Owens, Nadia Pasquer, Masaomi Raku, Sterling Ruby, Takayuki Sakiyama, Martin Szekely, Chikuunsai IV Tanabe, Kurokawa Toru, Kohei Ukai, Michaël Verheyden, Alain Vernis, Thaddeus Wolfe, Masaomi Yasunaga
Practica para "Tecnologías especificas de producción" (MID) - "Specific production technologies" practice (MDE)
