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9.
Celebration Bowl
8"
x 9"
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10.
Celebration Bowl
7"
x 9"
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11.
Celebration Bowl
5"
x 7"
$425
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12.
Celebration Bowl
4"
x 8"
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Sally
Bowen Prange
I consider porcelain to be an aristocratic
clay in all of its temperamental characteristics. Its smooth, white texture
is sensuous. The purity of the clay is absolutely necessary for the glazes
and decorative techniques I use. I remain in awe of the profound ceramic
practices developed in the ancient kilns of China where porcelain beauty
reached its apex in the Song Dynasty.
My involvement with procelain is linked to
my very long interest and concern with Chinese culture. I do not know
how to express it more clearly than to say that my indepth work with porcelain
is influenced by a "China myth" in my head - inherited during
my early years from my parents who had lived in China for five years.
They were deeply influenced by their experience; my affinity of this exotic
culture grew as I made Chinese friends, read about China, and finally
travelled to China in 1978.
The works are in a series, representing unique
directions of thought. The variety enriches me and my work manner. For
each different piece I have intimate and distinct feelings as I work,
sometimes a narrative in my mind. Form is foremost, and the altered rim
is ever-present but the surfaces vary with the whim of the artist. There
is the "barnacle" surface, derived from my underwater experience
as a Scuba Diver. There are the vibrant lustrous colors, worked abstractly
on the surfaced of some vessels and inspired by the hues of corals, sponges,
anenomes - the sea life of the underwater world. The lyrical interplay
of color and texture is unique to my palette as a ceramic artist.
Permanent Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Smithsonian Institute
The Museum of Art, Penn State University
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
J. Patrick Lannan Foundation of Contemporary Art, Florida
Weatherspoon Galery, UNC Greensboro, North Carolina
Museum of Art, University of Michigan
Wachovia Bank, Winston Salem
Museo Internazionale Della Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, Alabama
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, North Carolina
Everson Museum of art, Syracuse, New York
Glaxo Wellcome Corporate Headquarters
Princess Anne of Great Britain
Tajami Technical School, Japan
Ackland Art Museum, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Joan Mannheimer collection, Des Moines, Iowa
Blue Cross - Blue Shield, Durham, North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
St. Bennett's College, Oxford, England
Queen Noor of Jordan
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