Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body of work she has produced in her more than sixty years in the studio is remarkable for its depth; personal voice; and consistent innovation. Many of her pieces defy category; invoking body and landscape; pottery and sculpture; male and female; hand and eye. Equally compelling are Karness experiences in some of the most significant cultural settings of her generation: from the worker-owned cooperative housing of her childhood; to Brooklyn College under modernist Serge Chermayeff; to North Carolinas avant-garde Black Mountain College; to the Gate Hill Cooperative in Stony Point; New York; which Karnes helped establish as an experiment in integrating art; life; family; and community. This book; designed to accompany an exhibit of Karness works organized by Peter Held; curator of ceramics for the Arizona State University Art Museums Ceramic Research Center; offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of Karnes. Edited by highly regarded studio potter Mark Shapiro; it combines essays by leading critics and scholars with color reproductions of more than sixty of her works; providing new perspectives for understanding the achievements of this extraordinary artist.
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