Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Distraction

USA, 1996
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date acquired:
Materials:
White Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural:
Installation - small/intimate scale
Method:
Slab-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Anne C Currier | 1950 – Present

Anne Currier is known for creating ceramic sculptures are an exploration of the interplay between inside and outside and which is which. They are hard-edged, slab built and have the appearance of being larger in scale than they actually are.Typically, Currier?s sculptures are monochromatic often referencing the colors of winter in western New York.

Her pieces challenge our understanding of mass, volume, positive and negative space and how they interact.

Anne Currier was the recipient of a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Recognition Grant in 1991.

An excerpt of an interview with Anne Currier conducted May 22, 24 and June 16, 2006, by Mary Drach McInnes for the Archives of American Art?s Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America is available here: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-anne-currier-13581.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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