Oakland artist Peter Voulkos, who spent a lifetime raising the potter's art from a quiet craft to fine art, died last weekend at the age of 78. Mr. Voulkos died early Saturday in Bowling Green, Ohio, ...

Peter Voulkos, the great ceramic sculptor who died Feb. 16 at age 78, was the most influential clay artist of his time, and a pivotal force on the Bay Area art scene for 40 years. A brawny Greek whose ...

In contemporary ceramics, humor, strangeness, and the grotesque reinvent the material. From Ken Price 's abstract forms to Peter Voulkos 's monumental sculptures, by way of Grayson Perry 's social ...

The final show at Frank Lloyd exemplifies what the 19-year-old gallery did so thoughtfully and well, and why its presence and program will be so sorely missed. The show pairs two stalwarts of the ...

Peter Voulkos, the artist who led a revolution in ceramics nearly a half-century ago in Los Angeles and who died last year at 78, is typically identified in relation to the verve and swagger of ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1706): At the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a little survey (he deserves bigger) of the great West Coast ceramicist Peter Voulkos proves that, in his case at least, ...

Montana-born artist Peter Voulkos was never timid with the clay. Voulkos was known for his assaults on the ceramic vessels he made in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s that revolutionized the medium. Josh ...

There will be a public screening of “our Founding Mudder who art in heaven: a workshop with Peter Voulkos” at the Myrna Loy Center on Saturday, April 19, at 3 p.m. The movie, by filmmaker Martin Holt ...

Peter Voulkos, who has died aged 78, was the giant of post-war American ceramics and a liberating influence on world pottery. A man of great charisma and energy, his powerful art embraced not only ...

“Peter Voulkos changed the way clay is seen, and began the process of breaking down the wall between the fine arts and the applied arts, which is a process that inches forward to this day,” Peterson ...

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This energetic, freely formed bowl epitomizes Peter Voulkos’ innovative approach to sculpture. Highly influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, Voulkos challenged the boundaries of his medium, ...