Art
Echo Park Pottery Teapot by artist Peter Shire
- Item Number
- 144
- Estimated Value
- 1800 USD
- Sold
- 700 USD to ktc1de7f7
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Echo Park Pottery Teapot, signed by artist Peter Shire. Approximate dimensions 15" L x 6" H x 5" W
From the Echo Park Pottery Website:
Echo Park Pottery, is a simulacrum of an art pottery, started sometime after October 2nd 1972. When it came into being, a some sort of organic mystery which melded in some time with the sculptural work of tea pots. There's a good chance it was when there were 10 or 20 mugs that had been done in a slab construction hand rolled style that I learned from Adrian Saxe. I didn't know what to do with glaze and I had a bunch of pots of liquid color and I thought it would be very funny to spatter them like Sam Francis paintings. The high and the low.
Chouinard Art School for many decades had a pottery sale which was part of our ceramic curriculum. That experience of an event, of a chance for people to have beautiful hand made ceramics and to celebrate the human spirit infused into objects, continues to drive this simulacrum in a time when you can buy Glad containers that are disposable, and pasta dishes from Ikea, which perhaps makes Echo Park Pottery, post-pottery.
Special thanks to our donor, Peter Shire
Item Special Note
Item will be available at the AAa/e Awards Banquet on October 4, 2018 at the Millennium Biltmore DTLA. If the winning bidder is not at the event, he or she shall pay for shipping/delivery.
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