Oval Landscape Bowl

Artist Wayne Higby (American, 1943-)

CultureAmerican

Datec. 1990

MediumRaku-fired earthenware

DimensionsOverall: 27.9 × 55.9 × 35.6 cm (11 × 22 × 14 in.)

MarkingsImpressed stamp

DescriptionThis artwork is a highly accomplished sculptural vessel and exemplary of this influential artist’s work in the 1990s. The work is a large-scale bowl form, which Higby has altered to be oval in form. He has then cut the rim and applied glazes to suggest a landscape, one that forms across the open center of the hollow form. This is a technique Higby pioneered in the late 1970s that contributed to the rise of the sculptural vessel at the time. The work is raku fired, an unpredictable technique which Higby has harnessed masterfully to express the tension between the actual space occupied by the object and the implied space of the austere landscape represented on it.

Credit LineGift of the Barbara and Philip Silverberg Collection

Object numberG18.8.1

Classifications

Modern and Contemporary Ceramics

Sub-classification

American

Collections

Status

On view