Edward Eberle
Edward S. Eberle is known for his paper-thin, wheel-thrown, porcelain vessels of both closed and open forms with layered narrative drawing and painting across the surfaces. Using black ceramic ink, terra sigillata, ...
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- Biography
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Edward S. Eberle is known for his paper-thin, wheel-thrown, porcelain vessels of both closed and open forms with layered narrative drawing and painting across the surfaces. Using black ceramic ink, terra sigillata, and scraffito, he decorates the unglazed porcelain surfaces with compositions of elaborately interlinked human and animal forms.
Eberle's narrative imagery and forms are influenced by Asian architecture, Greek pottery and the black-on-white pottery of the Mimbres of South Western New Mexico. His often chaotic scenes are usually accented with geometric-motif banding.
Eberle also builds large structures using multiple thrown and altered pieces. These are sometimes slab constructed. A number of these structures are deconstructed, reconfigured and decorated, blending the inside with the outside. Eberle is sometimes identified as a Postmodern ceramist.
" - Apprenticeships & Residencies
- Primary Work Experience
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1971-1975
Faculty, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1975-1985Associate Professor in Ceramics and Drawing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Other
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Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Boca Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, Kansas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phildelphia, Pennsylvania
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
- Bibliography
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Clark, Garth. The Artful Teapot. London, England: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
Clark, Vicky A. Edward Eberle. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1991.
Deitz, Ulysses. Great Pots: Contemporary Ceramics from Function to Fantasy. Guild: Madison, WI, 2003.
Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics. London, England: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
Douglas, Mary F., ed. Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection. Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum of Craft + Design, 200
Kenton, Mary Jean. "Edward Eberle." American Ceramics (October 1992).
Odom, Michael. “Edward Eberle in the Realm of Myth.” American Craft, April/May 1992.
Pepich, Bruce W. "Edward S. Eberle," Art Gallery International, May/June 1989.
Scott, Paul. Painted Clay – Graphic Arts and the Ceramic Surface. London, England: A&C Black, 2001.
Shearing, Graham. “Edward Eberle: the Way of Teapots,” Metropolitan, March/April 2007.
________________. “Edward Eberle,” American Craft, August/September 2005.
Wells, Gary. "A Mythic Realm in Black and White." American Ceramics (June 1988).
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Edward Eberle, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/edward-s-eberle
Objects
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ex. Candice Groot Collection
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ex. Candice Groot Collection
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ex. Candice Groot Collection
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