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Porcelain
18 x 8 ½ x 6 ½ inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated Retail Value: $2,000
Starting Bid: $1,000
Working primarily in porcelain, Judith Salomon creates delicately constructed pieces with subtly shifting surfaces—often incised, layered, or patterned—that reward close, sustained looking. Leveraging clay’s history, tactility, and utilitarian value, Salomon borrows and appropriates imagery and forms from various sources, ranging from art and design history to pieces of rust on the street. In her daily life, Salomon collects visuals that get processed into her artwork and become key aesthetic moments composed intuitively to create works with incredible elegance, restraint, and craftsmanship. White Vase with Colors suggests a stacked skyscraper in form, with colors and shapes that harken to 20th century movements like Minimalism and Pop art.
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Judith Salomon
Judith Salomon is Professor Emeritus at the Cleveland Institute of Art who received her BFA from the School for American Craftsmen at Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA from Alfred University’s New York State College of Ceramics. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and is represented in collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Manchester City Art Galleries, and the National Museum of History in Taiwan. Salomon received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships, and was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1990.
