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

Mug

USA, 1900
Date acquired:
Materials:
Stoneware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Ruenell Foy Temps | 1940 – Present

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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