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Considered one of the most significant ceramic artists working today, Betty Woodman’s eclectic style involves an expert, dramatic and inventive use of both form and color. Woodman explores the limits of ceramics as a medium, often juxtaposing modern and ancient aesthetics. In this regard, she has expanded the potential for working in ceramics by creating work that ranges from simple and traditional vessels to large-scale ceramic wall murals and installation pieces. In April 2006, New York Times art critic Grace Glueck wrote: “What makes her work so engaging is the very looseness of her approach to shape and paint application, refreshingly different from the tight intricacies of more punctilious ceramists, including some of her contemporaries.” Woodman’s work has been shown internationally, and the retrospective exhibition The Art of Betty Woodman ran at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006, the first time in the museum’s history to feature a solo show for a living creator of ceramic vessels. The artist lives and works in New York City and Antella, Italy.
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Zig-Zag
Glazed earthenware
21 x 19 x 18 in.
1983
Estimated value: $27,000
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