Michael Simon
Michael Simon is known for functional stoneware decorated with simple nature based geometricmotifs. Fish, birds, trees and linear abstract designs decorate the surfaces of his work creating a visual iconography that ...
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Michael Simon is known for functional stoneware decorated with simple nature based geometricmotifs. Fish, birds, trees and linear abstract designs decorate the surfaces of his work creating a visual iconography that make many of his works instantly recognizable.
Simon is a master of wax resist and uses it to create the integration of pattern and image seen on his work. He was also a master ot manipulating the figure and ground on a piece. Many of his pieces have flat side sllowing for more painting. Simon used a salt kiln to fire his work.
An interview with Michael Simon conducted September 27 and 28, 2005 by Mark Shapiro 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-michael-simon-11797.
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- Primary Work Experience
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Other
- Public Collections
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Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko, Japan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nerman Museum, Overland Park, Kansas
Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Bibliography
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Roberts, Susan Stokes, ed. Michael Simon: Evolution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
- CV or Resume
- Website(s)
Citation: Michael Simon, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/michael-simon
Objects
Collections
American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
Pomona, California
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American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
Pomona, California -
American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
Pomona, California
