ceramics Class - U.H. Manoa, Fall '09 Semester

Saxe, Adrian, - vintage mid-60's - long Asso. Prof of Art at U. of California, L.A. Early on to vessel and porcelain qualities, In research, drawn to antelope motif, thereafter used in large lidded vessels in the 70's.

As he worked thru the 80's, "....a tough, witty sense of inquiry began to appear." Some call him "modern-day Fabergé."

The merging of beauty and tension mates works of provocative pieces, "... a sense of poised and inexhaustible complexity." -(p. 297) Peter Schjeldahl, 1987, Kansas Exhibition. "American Ceramics 1876 to Present", Clark 1987.