Stuart Altmann on tue 27 aug 96
Susan Maquire asked about seeing clay art in Chicago next weekend.
Unfortunately, the Art Institute's fabulous exhibit of imperial Chinese
art, including many ceramic pieces, ended Sunday. The Art Institute is
otherwise not a good place to see ceramics, exept for southeast Asian.
They have a fair smattering of pots in the Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian,
Etruscan, Amerindian, and other regional permanent collections. I finally
found *one small case* there of 20th century ceramics, and the nice lady at
information didn't know of anything else. The omission is surprising,
since the Institute and the city of Chicago have quite a number of major
20th century pieces of sculpture (Picasso, Maillol, Rodin, etc.).
The permanent collection of the Field Museum of Natural History has a large
collection of regional ceramics, including Asian, back at least to the
Neolithic.
The gallery of Lill St. Studios (1021 W. Lill Ave.) always has a good,
slowly changing collection of pots, primarily by Midwestern potters. Also
some glass work and some jewelry.
Near the University of Chicago, Artisans 21 Gallery (5225 S. Harper), a
cooperative that I used to be in, includes functional works by five local
potters.
Aiko's Art Materials (3347 N. Clark) has a fine gallery of contemporary
Japanese ceramics. Also, all kinds of Japanese art supplies, including
fabulous brushes to drool over--or go broke buying. (After Aiko's, walk a
short distance north to Matsuya's Restaurant, 3469 N. Clark, for
outstanding and reasonably priced sushi.)
There are a couple of commercial galleries that have extensive collections
of ceramics, but I don't have their names/addresses at hand.
Stuart Altmann
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