Confrontational ceramic artists biography

Exposed to the ceramic world and community from a very early age, his childhood in Rome, with its unique history and art, as well as traveling and experiencing.
Schwartz gathers the works of more than two hundred artists from thirty different countries into a glossy full-color overview of the radical ceramics scene.
Roberto Lugo's pottery is born from the streets of North Philadelphia.

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Those who associate ceramics with functional vessels or charming kick-knacks are in for a shock. Clay may start out soft, but in the right hands it can deliver a hard blow. From British Toby Jugs to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain to a wall of gruesome tiles that forms a portrait of President George W. Bush, ceramic art has the power to provoke and subvert.

Confrontational Ceramics surveys the work of contemporary sculptors, potters, and mixed media artists who have turned the ancient medium of clay into an articulate vehicle for political and social commentary. Educator and curator Judith S. Schwartz gathers the works of more than two hundred artists from thirty different countries into a glossy full-color overview of the radical ceramics scene. Provocative pieces from makers such as Grayson Perry, Robert Arneson, Richard Notkin, Howard Kottler, as well as newer talents, address personal, social, and geopolitical injustices from rape to racism. In their own words, these bold artists discuss the outrage behind their outrageous works. Schwartz provides historical context for current

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‘I like to be confrontational’: artist Roberto Lugo on how propaganda inspires his work

Roberto Lugo’s pottery is born from the streets of North Philadelphia. Influenced by hip-hop culture, graffiti art and Black history, his pots, cups and plates memorialise a lived experience that is not often recognised by traditional institutions. But that has been changing in recent years, with major collections acquiring his work, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York, which features a wide array of his ceramics in its Afrofuturist Period Room installation. In Miami Beach, he has a show at Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Museum, in which he responds to its decorative art collection, as well as taking over the entire façade with a community-driven mural. The artist spoke to us from his studio about the show and what projects he is thinking about next.

The Art Newspaper: You have said that you didn’t really have a lot of access to art when you were young.

Roberto Lugo: I didn’t have any art classes growing up; we didn’t have art in schools at the time. Really, th

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Nuala Creed

Irish sculptor (born 1954)

Nuala Creed (born in 1954 in Dublin, Ireland) is a ceramic sculptor living in Northern California, United States. She is known for a series of over 120 Ceramic Archivists, on display as a permanent collection at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. She is also known for her political work.

Biography

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Creed lived in London as a young adult, and then moved to Boston in 1979 where she took courses at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In 1996, she moved to San Francisco with her husband, Jeffrey Ventrella, where she earned her BFA at California College of the Arts, graduating with high distinction.

Creed has worked primarily with the human figure, incorporating themes of childhood, vulnerability, and social issues.

Political work

After being invited to make an ornament (a ceramic hummingbird) for the White House Christmas tree in 2002, Creed began making variations of this work in protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. This led to a series called "Babes in Arms".^[1]

Creed's