Victor Spinski
Victor Spinski is known for sculptural still life compositions of common everyday objects, for example, paper cups in a cardboard box, tools, paint cans or dishes in the sink. Many of the ...
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Victor Spinski is known for sculptural still life compositions of common everyday objects, for example, paper cups in a cardboard box, tools, paint cans or dishes in the sink. Many of the assemblages contain objects that are convincing of material other than ceramic.
Spinski was influenced by the Yixing artists of eastern China. He was a leading figure in the avant-garde ceramics movement of the 1960s and 1970s and held a patent on the Ceramic Photo Emulsion process that produced the ceramic decals he used in his trompe l'oeil ceramic assemblages. Spinski created the cast and constructed ceramic objects then spent hours perfecting the surface with decals and china painting.
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1968-2006
Professor of Ceramics at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Other
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Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, Kansas
Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
- Bibliography
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Clark, Garth. The Book of Cups. New York, NY:Abbeville Press Publishers, 1990.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1988.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Art Now. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1992.
Peterson, Susan. The Craft and Art of Clay. Englewood, NJ: Prentice Hall Publishers,1992/1995.
Zakin, Richard. Ceramics: Mastering the Craft. Radnor, VA: Chilton, Publishing Company, 1990.
____________. Ceramics–Ways of Creation. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 1999.
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Citation: Victor Spinski, "The Marks Project."
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