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John Mason (March 30, 1927 – January 20, 2019) was an American artist who did experimental work with ceramics. [1] Mason's work focused on exploring the physical properties of clay and its "extreme plasticity". [2]
Over four decades, John Mason has created a body of ceramic art noted for its increasingly conceptual and geometric nature. In the mid-1950s, as a student of Peter Voulkos in Los Angeles, he was an active participant in the aesthetic revolution that reshaped the field of American ceramics, transforming tradition-bound studio potters into ...
John Mason, a California sculptor known for groundbreaking, large-scale, ceramic abstractions. He was one of a small group of artists, and that included Peter Voulkos and Ken Price, who made Southern California the epicenter of the clay revolution, forever changing the landscape for clay.
12 lut 2019 · John Mason, known for synthesizing ceramics and modular geometric forms with Abstract Expressionism, died on January 20 at the age of ninety-one at his home in California. Mason, together with Ken Price, Ron Nagle, and Paul Sodner, formed a tight-knit group of ceramicists while at the Otis Art Institute (now the Otis College of Art and Design ...
The ceramic art of the American Indian interests him more in functional than in formal terms. During a recent trip to New York, he was impressed by the Leger exhibition at the Guggenheim and the Greek sculpture at the Metropolitan.
John Mason: Geometric Force. An exhibition of ceramic sculptures by John Mason in early 2020 focused on the artist’s mature work. In this video tour, narrated by the exhibition’s curator, Rani Singh, Mason’s early career and aesthetic development receive a deeper look.
Gagosian is pleased to present Geometric Force, an exhibition of ceramic works by the late John Mason. One of the most visionary ceramic artists of the last century, Mason brought his medium into conversation with Abstract Expressionism by extending the physical and spatial properties of clay.
