Photo: Artist
Photo: Artist

Platter

USA, 2014
<p>This round platter has six white faces with black lines creatng their features.  They touch one another and are in two rows. The one on the bottom left looks right and has an open mouth with teeth showing. The one in the middle has eye glasses and curly hair that shows on the right side of the head. The face on the right has a puckered mouth, large nose, and many black spots on its cheeks.There are two hands below these heads. The left head in the upper row is triangular. It has two ovals for nostrils a closed downward turned mouth. It appears to be looking to the right. The middle head has a blurry mouth two ovals for nostrils and a nose created from an extension of the right eye brow. The head on the right has a very downturned mouth with many teeth,  blurry eyes, and its left ear shows. The small amount of background that shows is black. There is a brown raised band of clay around the rim.</p><p>The underside shows a white central area with A TEA PARTY written above a teapot with a fish on the side and a coiled top handle. There are two dots above the spout and two on the other side of the pot. Next there is a bright oragne band , then on the outer edge there is a wide tan band that has five oval spirals in darker brown.</p>
Date acquired:
Materials:
Terracotta
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes:
Glaze
Ron Meyers

Ron Meyers has spent decades working with red earthenware. His thrown pots, always functional in some way, display his casual and spontaneous manner with clay. Each of Meyer?s pots is characterized by hand and finger marks left from throwing and altering the piece. He commonly pokes pieces, adding a wobbly unevenness to the forms.

His early passion to become a cartoonist is evident in his narrative, sometimes confrontational, colored slip surface paintings. His whimsical subjects range from animal forms to female nudes. Meyers fires his works first in an electric kiln and then in a gas kiln.

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