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Birth
1924 (Oakland, California)
Death
2002
Lived/Active
California
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sculptor-ceramic, abstraction
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A man who took into a high form of art the medium of clay, Peter Voulkos became an Abstract Expressionist of ceramics. His talents charge his materials with the vitality and spontaneity of action painting, and his art is a synthesis of painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, and pottery.
Based in Oakland, California, he often sent his work on long odysseys for completion with the firing done in New Jersey and sometimes in Japan and photography in Oakland.
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