Space Cowboy #6 (from the series Suppressed Volume)
Artist
Harris Deller
(American, born 1947)
Date2011
MediumHand-built porcelain, incised and inlaid with black glaze
Dimensions7 11/16 x 11 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (19.5 x 30.3 x 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Harris Deller, 2013
Object number2013.5
DescriptionA flat, white vessel with a contrasting surface treatment of rounded black lines inside rectangles.Text Entries
Harris Deller is a well-known American ceramist whose work from the suppressed volume series, including this work, converses will with the reductive compositions of American minimalism. His work explores the formal elements of volume, line, and space.The fractured concentric circles incised onto the vessel resemble tree rings, fingerprints, or a target. He has compared his incising to music, the lines being the melody and the spaces between the pauses of a musical composition.
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