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All rights reserved 2 CERAMICS MONTHLY June/July/August 1994 3 4 CERAMICS MONTHLY VOLUME 42, NUMBER 6 • JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 1994 Feature Articles Penn State National ..................................................................................................... 33 Old and New in Jingdezhen by Ed Me Endarfer .......................................................... 36 Ron Nagle: Recent Work a review by Charlotte Moser ............................................ 41 Jindra Vikova The Iron Curtain is down, The Overbeck Studio by Richard Zakin........................................................................... 48 but freedom has brought new problems Ron Roy’s Ole Black Magic by Tony Clennell................................................................. 52 and new pressures to this Czech artist. In part, “it means not becoming a slave of Tiles of Ohio by Shel Neymark .......................................................................................... 54 coarse commercialism, fads and unproduc Jindra Vikova by Jimmy Clark ............................................................................................ 60 tive paper shuffling”; see page 60. Animals & Co., 1983-1992 by Allan Walter.................................................................... 62 The Overbeck Studio Incising and sgraf Ron Dale a review by Lisa Neumann Howorth.................................................................... 65 fito were combined to create complex im agery on art pottery produced by the Peruvian Expressionsby Eleanor Camet, Vicky Garcia and Beatriz Morales ................ 95 Overbeck sisters in southeastern Indiana; their story begins on page 48. Desert Light by Steve Rieman ............................................................................................. 97 Using Natural Clays by Miska Petersham ......................................................................... 100 Ron Roy’s Ole Black MagicThe buying public is not usually fond of temmoku- Pinched for Time by Nancy Cheser ................................................................................... 104 glazed ware, but this black glaze breaking to rust has cast its spell on many a potter. The recipe given in the article (see page 52) comes with an appropriate warning. Up Front Philadelphia Craft Show ...................................................................................................... 14 Korean Arts of the 18th Century ....................................................................................... 14 Susan Maye a review by Tony Merino ..................................................................................... 14 Canadian Heritage Gallery Opens ..................................................................................... 16 Estelle Levy ............................................................................................................................ 16 Peter King/Marni Jaime ...................................................................................................... 16 Neil Patterson ........................................................................................................................ 18 Jill Solomon ............................................................................................................................ 18 Russell Biles ........................................................................................................................... 20 Ceramics Undervalued ......................................................................................................... 20 Barbara Sorensen .................................................................................................................. 20 British Tea and Coffee ......................................................................................................... 20 Animals & Co., 1983-1992Eventhough Cindi Morrison ...................................................................................................................... 22 Jenny Lind and Allan Walter straightened Jennie Bireline ........................................................................................................................ 22 out all the production kinks, the recession tied their business into financial knots. Walter (shown above with slip caster Kalvin Tenorio) shares the pluses and minuses of Departments their experience in the article beginning on page 62. Letters ...................................................... 8 Questions ............................................. 92 New Books ............................................. 24 Classified Advertising ......................... 106 The cover Mississippi artist Ron Dale Video ........................................................ 70 with his tongue-in-cheek shrine to George Comment: Ohr, the “mad potter of Biloxi”; a review ofCall for Entries ....................................... 73 A View from the Ridge Dale’s “disorienting” work begins on page Suggestions ............................................. 76 by Charles Counts............................... 110 65. Photo: Tom Rankin. Calendar .................................................. 78 Index to Advertisers........................... 112 June/July/August 1994 5 Letters made rules become meaningless,” and where grams by Beth Randall in the March issue. “a new freedom of intuition and the joy of First, I must say that I do not know Beth making” couple with “enthusiasm and free Randall, her friend that she claims “bought play of imagination,” it is John Gill. His into the system,” or the school and teachers Destiny of the Unsold work does not “cease to serve a functional referenced in her article. I therefore cannot Can someone please explain what hap need,” and become “art for art’s sake.” judge whether the conditions she refers to pens to the countless pieces (the small, the Rather, it revels in the glory of its own na were real or imagined, or whether she is using medium, the large) shown in exhibitions ture, whether it be a wine ewer, cup, creamer a perceived condition as a scapegoat for worldwide? Not all are purchased or find or eggplant dish. failure or disappointment. For Ms. Randall homes. What do the makers of those pieces And, finally, anyone who attacks David to categorize as the same all art programs, that never sell do with all that ceramic art? Shaner, the consummate Zen craftsman, teachers and “big-shot artists,” suggests a Patricia Bobrosky, Temecula, Calif. philosopher and the living archetype of serious deficiency in judgment and a rather Yanagi’s vision, should certainly be banned immature attitude, which might also explain Hluch Misunderstood Yanagi