RARE Hand Signed WARREN MACKENZIE Exhibition Catalogue

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The cross-country tour of work by master potter, Warren Mackenzie, is closing.  Up for sale is a fully illustrated 136-page catalogue that accompanied the exhibition.  It contains over 100 images and essays by Catherine Futter, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Nelson Atkins Museum, and Rob Silberman, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. The catalogue also includes a curator’s statement, an artist biography, bibliogra­phy, and a comprehensive plates section featuring the artwork and their lenders. The catalogue is presented in the original handmade wooden box and has been hand signed by Warren Mackenzie.  Here's your chance to own a piece of history.
Recognized as a true master of 20th Century ceramic art, this comprehensive retrospective presented seminal works produced by Warren MacKenzie over a fifty-year period (1948-2006). Representing various styles, forms, and approaches to the art of clay, this exhibition shed new light on the life and work of one America’s foremost studio potters. Warren MacKenzie’s life and work reflects the changing role of the ceramic artist in society, from the early modern philosophy of producing works for industry to the emergence of the individual studio potter in the 1950’s.
Through his traditional, wheel thrown stoneware vessels, Warren MacKenzie embodies not only the fusion of influences of Bernard Leach, Shoji Hamada, and Soetsu Yanagi but also his own unique vision where art and life are one, and where the presence of the potter’s hand is felt and touched in the utilitarian pots he produces for use in everyday life.
The exhibition traced the work of Warren MacKenzie through pieces loaned from over thirty institutional and individual collections. The exhibition explored Warren MacKenzie’s development as a potter from his early studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to his unique experiences working with the world-renowned ceramic artists Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada.
Born in 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri, Warren MacKenzie studied ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1947 he graduated from the School and married Alix Kolesky, his collaborator in pottery until her death in 1962. In 1948 Warren and Alix moved to Minnesota to teach ceramics, sculpture, and design at the St. Paul Gallery and School of Art. Over the next fourteen years Warren and Alix apprenticed with Bernard Leach, met Shoji Hamada and other internationally acclaimed potters, and established a pottery studio in Stillwater, Minnesota. In 1953 Warren began teaching ceramics at the University of Minnesota and in 1954 the Walker Art Center presented the MacKenzies’ first exhibition of pottery from their new studio. In 1966 MacKenzie was promoted to full professor at the University of Minnesota, he chaired the Department of Studio Arts from 1981 to 1985, and retired from the university in 1990. In 1984, MacKenzie married fiber artist Nancy Spitzer and continues to work at their home and studio in Stillwater, Minnesota.
Among other numerous awards, Warren MacKenzie was named a Regent’s Professor, a Fellow of the International Academy of Ceramics, and was the first to receive the Minnesota Governor’s Award in Crafts in 1986. In 1997 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Minnesota Crafts Council and in 1998 was honored with the Gold Medal from the American Crafts Council. His work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; The National Folk Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England; Contemporary American Crafts Museum in New York; Bernard Leach Study Collection in Bath, England, the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul; the Weisman Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis.
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