Ron Nagle Ceramics Artist

Born in san francisco in 1939 nagle is possessed of multiple intelligences and relentless curiosities.

Ron nagle ceramics artist. He is known for small scale refined sculptures of great detail and compelling color. Ron nagle s tiny abstract sculptures inspire his fans to reach for their most expressive language to evoke their abundant appeal. Nagle lives and works in san francisco california. The work he presented that november built on the process he used for the dilexi cups but abandoned their plexiwood frames.

In 1961 he apprenticed to peter voulkos at the university of california berkeley and later exhibited his work alongside voulkos ken price and other innovative west coast artists working in clay. Nagle was born in san francisco in 1939. Those are raves respectively from dave hickey ken johnson and apsara diquinzio his ceramic sculptures only inches to a side pack colors and textures into packages that contain visual excitement galore. An artist who makes irreverent and pocket size sculptures ron nagle helped pave the way for clay artists to be taken seriously but he still has a sense of humor.

The artist modern art london matthew marks new york installation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation viewinstallation view ron nagle. 1970 smithsonian american art museum ron nagle born february 21 1939 is an american sculptor musician and songwriter. Ron nagle untitled glazed and overglazed earthenware c. Compositions and clay both ron nagle s hit songs and ceramics are born of a dedication to harmony and craft.

Ahead of a new solo show he. Intimate in scale bold in color and immaculate in finish the ceramic sculptures by san francisco based artist ron nagle look like surrealistic dream objects. In 1975 san francisco gallerists rena bransten and ruth braunstein offered nagle a solo show that jogged him from his ceramics hiatus. Early in his career nagle apprenticed with fellow abstract expressionist ceramicist peter voulkos and he cites ken price and giorgio morandi as significant influences.

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. Lincolnshire squire is on view at. He s had simultaneous long interwoven and successful careers as an artist and a musician. Courtesy of the perimeter.