Ceramics Betty Woodman Art

The ceramic artist betty woodman who has died aged 87 was known for her highly original baroque forms and use of vivid colour.

Ceramics betty woodman art. See available design sculpture and prints and multiples for sale and learn about the artist. The artist betty woodman known for her spirited and blazingly colorful ceramic sculptures died of pneumonia on tuesday in new york city according to her new york dealer jeanne greenberg. Woodman who pioneered both ceramics as fine art and female representation in the art world taught in the art department at the university of colorado for three decades and still. The art of betty woodman a retrospective exhibition of her career at the metropolitan museum of art new york 2006 betty woodman.

View betty woodman s 186 artworks on artnet. In high school one ceramics course was sufficient to convince woodman that she wanted to be a functional potter. Betty woodman was a ceramic artist best known for her exuberantly colorful and inventive work which gained recognition in the early 1970s. Studying pottery at the school for american craftsmen at alfred university she developed a strong interest in the history of ceramics.

The ceramics of betty woodman exhibition catalogue freedman gallery. Among the foremost contemporary american ceramists betty woodman has been inventing and re inventing new and traditional forms producing exuberant brightly colored and witty works since the early 1950s. Betty woodman first became interested in crafts because her father was a woodworker. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.