Adrian Saxe: Difference between revisions

{{short description|American ceramic artist (born 1943)}}

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| birth_date = 1943

| birth_place = [[Glendale, California]]

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| nationality = [[United States|American]]

| field = [[Ceramic art]]

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| awards = Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

| website = http://www.adriansaxe.com/

| education = Chouinard Art School, Otis College of Art and Design

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Saxe studied at the [[Chouinard Art Institute]] (Los Angeles, California) from 1965 to 1969 and earned a B.F.A. degree at the [[California Institute of the Arts]] (Valencia, California).<ref>[http://www.craftinamerica.org/artists_clay/story_262.php? ''Craft in America''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101224959/http://www.craftinamerica.org/artists_clay/story_262.php |date=January 1, 2009 }}</ref> Saxe's early works were primarily site-specific sculpture that employed large arrays of modular ceramic sections. Later, he turned to producing ornate vessels.

He has produced work for major solo and group exhibitions around the world and in 1983 he became the first artist fellow in residency at L’Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Creation de la [[Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres]] in France.<ref>''Journal of Occupational Science'', An Interview with Adrian Saxe, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2004, pp. 40–44</ref> His work was the subject of a major mid-career survey organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1993–94, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shigaraki, Japan, and to the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ.<ref>[http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=25 Frank Lloyd Gallery artist biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521225035/http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=25 |date=May 21, 2012 }}</ref>

“With outrageous humor and unspeakable beauty, he makes intensely seductive objects that exploit traditional anthropomorphic qualities associated with ceramics. Having pressed the question of the utility of his own art in a post-industrial world, his work engages us in a dialogue about our own place in a radically shifting cultural universe. The result is that Saxe has become the most significant ceramic artist of his generation.”<ref>{{Cite news|title = Art Review: The Human Value of California Clay: Adrian Saxe Uses and Undermines Tradition in LACMA Exhibition|date = November 13, 1993|newspaper = The Los Angeles Times|url = http://articles.latimes.com/1993-11-13/entertainment/ca-56213_1_adrian-saxe|last = Knight|first = Christopher|access-date = August 2, 2013}}</ref>

Saxe is currently a professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.art.ucla.edu/faculty/saxe.html |title=UCLA Department of Art &#124; Faculty |publisher=Art.ucla.edu |access-date=2012-02-10}}</ref>

==Museum collections==

* Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/collections/ceramics/images.php|title = ASU Art Museum Ceramics Collection|access-date = August 3, 2013|archive-date = April 9, 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160409231831/http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/collections/ceramics/images.php|url-status = dead}}</ref>

* Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/146339/Teapot/set/debcf7b7286311da8ce796d0194b76a7?referring-q=adrian+saxe|title = Brooklyn Museum Collections|access-date = August 3, 2013}}</ref>

* Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio<ref>[https://archive.today/20130804060950/http://www.cantonart.org/ArtGateway/collection/s/saxe-untitledewer.html "Canton Museum of Art Collections: Adrian Saxe–Untitled Ewer (Buster Brown's)"]. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York<ref>[http://www.everson.org/exhibitions/permanent.php "Everson Museum of Art permanent collection"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818112453/http://www.everson.org/exhibitions/permanent.php |date=August 18, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* Gardiner Museum, Ontario, Canada<ref>[http://emuseum.gardinermuseum.on.ca/view/objects/asimages/People$0040121/0/title-desc?t:state:flow=84894e8a-148c-4d7d-afdb-227f0a8635f3 "Gardiner Museum of Art collection search"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224524/http://emuseum.gardinermuseum.on.ca/view/objects/asimages/People$0040121/0/title-desc?t:state:flow=84894e8a-148c-4d7d-afdb-227f0a8635f3 |date=2016-03-03 }}. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina<ref>[https://archive.today/20130804061039/http://www.mintmuseum.org/resources/collection-database/item-detail/2003.91.23A-C/Untitled-Stoppered-Bottle-Piece-Noire "The Mint Museum collection database"]. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres, Sèvres, France<ref>[http://www.sevresciteceramique.fr/site.php?type=E&id=27 "Sevres cite ceramique"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194324/http://www.sevresciteceramique.fr/site.php?type=E&id=27 |date=2014-01-02 }}. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas<ref>[http://www.mfah.org/art/detail/parisienne-chainsaw-massacre/ "Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collections"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625160040/http://www.mfah.org/art/detail/parisienne-chainsaw-massacre/ |date=June 25, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey<ref>[https://archive.today/20130804061027/http://www.newarkmuseum.org/StudioPottery.html "Newark Museum studio pottery"]. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

* The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington, D.C.<ref>[http://americanart.si.edu/whc/whc-noframe.html?/whc/saxe.html "The White House Collection of American Crafts"]. Retrieved August 3, 2013.</ref>

==Solo exhibitions==

===Sources===

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130720143453/http://www.franklloyd.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=25 Adrian Saxe at Frank Lloyd Gallery]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312010647/http://hammer.ucla.edu/watchlisten/watchlisten/show_id/1135512 Adrian Saxe Artist Talk] at [[Hammer Museum]]

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