Photo: iGavel Auctions
Photo: iGavel Auctions
Photo: iGavel Auctions
Photo: iGavel Auctions

Ceramic Charger

USA, 1970
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Method:
Thrown
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Raymon Elozua | 1947 – Present

Raymon Elozua’s clay career began with functional pots but quickly moved to create post-industrialist ceramic sculptures incorporating metal and clay components. Following trends in photo-realism, he modeled sculptures of deteriorating American industrial architecture including, water towers, industrial sites, billboards, and drive-in movie theatres.

Elozua used these sculptures as a way to comment on the socio-economic consequences of industrial decline and its effect on American blue collar workers of the 1980s. Using a combination of open metal forms and colorfully glazed components, Elozua created a series of deconstructed teapots, bottles and traditional pottery forms.

In the 1990s Elozua used a computer to scan iconic paintings and separate their colors into individual layers. He then created a collage from selected layers of scans from different paintings. Each collage was then studied, interpreted and sculpted into a wire and clay mixed media sculpture. These works were titled to reference the artists whose work was used in layers of the original collages.

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