Adrian Saxe
Adrian Saxe is best known for work that shows influences of classic Chinese ceramics, which he enhances by adding a humorous twist. He often uses S趲es glazes and gold luster on his ...
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Adrian Saxe is best known for work that shows influences of classic Chinese ceramics, which he enhances by adding a humorous twist. He often uses S趲es glazes and gold luster on his pieces, which typically began with a cast component.
Saxe studied with Ralph Bacerra and John Coplans at Chouinard Art Institute. His early work was primarily concerned with site-specific sculpture that he created using large numbers of ceramic pieces. He has worked with stoneware and earthenware, although his best known pieces are porcelain.
An interview with Adrian Saxe conducted October 10 and 15, 2007, by Jo Lauria for the Archives of American Art?s Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America is available at: www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-adrian-saxe-13666.
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Other
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Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Gardiner Museum, Ontario, Canada
Kruithuis Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Pavillion de Marsan, Palais de Louvre, Paris
Musée National de Céramique de Sevres, Sevres, France
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Newark Art Museum, Newark, New Jersey
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan, Utah
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Taipei Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
White House Collection at the Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Bibliography
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Clark, Garth, and Tony Cunha. The Artful Teapot. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2001.
Lynn, Martha Drexler. The Clay Art of Adrian Saxe. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson; Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 1994.
Monroe, Michael. The White House Collection of American Crafts. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1995.
Saxe, Adrian, Jeff Perrone and Peter Schjehldahl. Adrian Saxe. Kansas City, MO: University of Missouri Department of Art–Kansas City Gallery of Art, March 1987.
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Citation: Adrian Saxe, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/adrian-saxe
Objects
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Brooklyn Museum of Art
United States
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Brooklyn Museum of Art
United States
Everson Museum of Art Collection
United States
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Everson Museum of Art Collection
United States
