Adrian Saxe is an American ceramic artist who was born in Glendale, California in 1943. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.UCLA Art Department faculty page
Biography Saxe studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, California) from 1965 to 1969 and earned a B.F.A. degree at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California).Craft in America Saxe's early works were primarily site-specific sculpture that employed large arrays of modular ceramic sections. Later, he turned to producing ornate vessels.
He has produced work for major solo and group exhibitions around the world and in 1983 he became the first artist fellow in residency at L’Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Creation de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres in France.Journal of Occupational Science, An Interview with Adrian Saxe, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2004, pp. 40–44 His work was the subject of a major mid-career survey organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1993–94, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shigaraki, Japan, and to the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ.Frank Lloyd Gallery artist biography
In a 1993 review of Saxe's work, art critic Christopher Knight wrote: “With outrageous humor and unspeakable beauty, he makes intensely seductive objects that exploit traditional anthropomorphic qualities associated with ceramics. Having pressed the question of the utility of his own art in a post-industrial world, his work engages us in a dialogue about our own place in a radically shifting cultural universe. The result is that Saxe has become the most significant ceramic artist of his generation.”
Saxe is currently a professor in the Art Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Museum collections Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio. Retrieved August 3, 2013. Carnegie Museum of Art, Institute and Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia"Carnegie Museum of Art". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Cooper-Hewitt Museum Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Design, New York"Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Cultural Affairs Commission, County of Los Angeles, California Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire de Young Museum, San Francisco, California Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York"Everson Museum of Art permanent collection" . Retrieved August 3, 2013. Gardiner Museum, Ontario, Canada"Gardiner Museum of Art collection search" . Retrieved August 3, 2013. Kruithuis Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California"LACMA collections". Retrieved August 3, 2013. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"The Metropolitan Museum of Art collections search". Retrieved August 3, 2013. The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina. Retrieved August 3, 2013. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Pavilion de Marsan, Palais de Louvre, Paris"Les Arts Decoratifs Centre de Documentation des Musées". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Musée National de Céramique de Sèvres, Sèvres, France"Sevres cite ceramique" . Retrieved August 3, 2013. Museum of Arts and Design, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas"Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collections" . Retrieved August 3, 2013. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia"National Gallery of Australia collections search". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. Retrieved August 3, 2013. Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Logan, Utah"Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art artist index". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California"OMCA Collections". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin Renwick Gallery, National Collection of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C."Renwick Gallery collections search". Retrieved August 3, 2013. Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, R.O.C. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England"V&A collection search". Retrieved August 3, 2013. The White House Collection of American Crafts, Washington, D.C."The White House Collection of American Crafts". Retrieved August 3, 2013.
Solo exhibitions GRIN—Genetic Robotic Information Nano (Technologies), Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2011 New Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2004 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 2000 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1998 Wish I may, Wish I might, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, 1997 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1996 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1995 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1994 The Clay Art of Adrian Saxe, Los Angeles County Museum of Art traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan and Newark Museum, New Jersey (1993–1995) Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1992 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1991 Garth Clark Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1990 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1989 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1988 Art Gallery, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, 1987 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1987 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1985 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1985 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1985 Garth Clark Gallery, New York, New York, 1983 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1983 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1983 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1982 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1982 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1980 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1979 The American Hand, Washington, D.C., 1973 Canyon Gallery II, Los Angeles, California, 1970
References
Sources Galusha, Emily (ed.), What's Clay Got to do with it?, A symposium on ceramics criticism, March 24–25, 1995, Saint Paul, Minn., Northern Clay Center, 1995. Levin, Elaine M. (ed.), Movers and Shakers in American Ceramics, Defining Twentieth Century Ceramics, A collection of articles from Ceramics monthly, Westerville, OH, American Ceramic Society, 2003. Lynn, Martha Drexler, The Clay Art of Adrian Saxe, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.
External links adriansaxe.com Adrian Saxe at Frank Lloyd Gallery Adrian Saxe Artist Talk at Hammer Museum