The Bailey Collection of Ceramics recently acquired a Bodil Manz piece from the Oxford Ceramic Gallery in England. Their current exhibition is Slipware and Bodil Manz is one of the featured artists. She is an interesting woman and has created an exceptional body of innovative work in her lifetime.
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From the Bailey Collection of Ceramics
Bodil Manz, porcelain slipcast cup
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Bodil Manz, Ceramic Legend! |
"It is a bit of a cliché to say that an artist has forged their own language, but in Bodil Manz’s case this is certainly true. No other potter makes porcelain vessels that are remotely comparable to hers, so that our whole perception of the material is changed. Her paper-thin slip-cast pieces, like taut tissue and as light as egg shell, takes the material into another physical sphere, like the prismatic qualities of stained glass or a smooth translucent textile, as polished and silky as bone. The thinness of their walls are such that outer and inner surface decoration merge to create an integrated whole, with no uneasy separation of interior and exterior. The pot both contains and exudes light.
Born in 1943 in Copenhagen, Manz studied ceramics at its School of Arts and Crafts (and subsequently at the University of Berkeley, California) in the early 1960s, establishing a workshop with her husband Richard Manz in 1967. Her Danish-ness is important. There is that understanding of light that comes out of a country of many islands and coasts set in different waters, from the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat, from the Skaggerak to the North Sea. Coastal Denmark is a place of varied atmospheres where the light shifts and changes. The painters of Skagen for example, on the northern tip of Jutland, made light a principal theme of their painting in the closing years of the 19th century. Manz’s pots are so receptive to shadow and light that they carry their own sense of movement, a kind of transformative inner life."
-From Oxford Ceramic Gallery's biography of Bodil Manz by David Whiting
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Pictured above are examples of Bodil Manz's luminenscent work. Below is an excellent video, Bodil Manz- Four days with Bodil. This half hour video takes us through her entire ceramic process, explores her attachment to her home and workshop, and the parternship with her late husband, the ceramicist Richard Manz. It's well worth a watch! |
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Lisa Rosenthal, pictured here, is the Spring 2021 Showroom Winner. Lisa is a serious hobby potter who lives in Rhinebeck, NY with her husband, son and dog. She makes wheel-thrown work at Kingston Ceramics Studio. Lisa has been an assistant for sculptor Tony Moore, at his wood-fire kiln in Cold Spring, NY, for two years. In her spare time, she practices real estate law.
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