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

Vase

USA, 2016
Date acquired:
Materials:
Stoneware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Thrown
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type:
Raku Fired (Horse Hair Raku Fired)
Glazes:
Glaze
Dudley Anderson

Jerry Caplan is known for experimental multimedia sculpture utilizing clay, industrial ceramic pipes, metal hardware, etc., his invention of techniques and processes and his extensive teaching career.

Caplan served in the 84th Engineer Battalion, where he helped manufacture and photograph dummy boats, tanks, and other military machinery. Later, Caplan worked in the pipe industry which influenced his sculpture.

During his career Caplan experimented with many innovative techniques, such as sculptures which began as giant extruded pipes. To eliminate the tasks of scoring and applying slip, he used metal nails to build ceramic sculptures. In a Ceramics Monthly article from May1989 he described this process as: ?Using nails as a fastener instead of slip results in a much more spontaneous joint and allows one to literally ?draw in the air??nailing clay is not unlike nailing wood except that clay has tremendous plasticity and can be bent or warped[1].?

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