Ruenell Temps
Ruenell Foy Temps is best known for hand-built, press and drape molded stoneware sculptural vessel forms, salt-fired in a gas kiln. Many of Temps? sculptures employ architecturally referenced forms and, although they ...
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Ruenell Foy Temps is best known for hand-built, press and drape molded stoneware sculptural vessel forms, salt-fired in a gas kiln. Many of Temps? sculptures employ architecturally referenced forms and, although they may have elaborately styled handles, there is an allover control and ordered surface. Work scale varied from tabletop functional pottery to monumental sculptures. Her functional stoneware pottery at times employing references to everyday objects such as bolts.
Temps was part of the 1950s California art scene. She was introduced to clay by Edwin Cadogan an instructor at College of Marin. At the University of California, Davis, Temps studied with Wayne Thiebaud and Ronald Peterson. Later at the University of California, Berkeley, Temps studied under Peter Voulkos. At the San Francisco Art Institute Temps studied with Tom Holland and Sam Tchkalian.
Although known for her ceramics, Temps was also a studio artist focused on painting. In the article ?The signing of Pottery?, Ceramics Monthly (1976), Temps states that signing her work is a matter of pride and responsibility toward her art.
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American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Indiana
Center for Ceramic Research at the University of Arizona, Tempe, Arizona
Civic Arts Collection, San Francisco, California
City of Walnut Creek, California
College of Holy Names, Oakland, California
California Polytechnic State University, San Louis Obispo, California
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse , New York
International Museum of Dinnerware Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Louisiana State University Art Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
- Bibliography
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Burnstein, Joanne. “Ruenell Foy Temps,” Ceramics Monthly 31, no. 1 (January 1983): 33 – 35
Murphy, Rose. “The Signing of Pottery,” Ceramics Monthly 24, no. 4 (April 1976): 42 - 43
https://www.ruenellfoytemps.com/biography.php Burnstein, Joanne. Last accessed 01/6/2023.
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Lange, Hanna
- Website(s)
Citation: Lange, Hanna Ruenell Temps, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/ruenell-foy-temps
