Untitled covered jar thrown, slab-built and glazed porcelain, raku and stoneware by Adrian Saxe, 1980, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Adrian Saxe is an American ceramic artist who was born in Glendale, California in 1943. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles, California) from 1965 to 1969 and earned a B.F.A. degree at the California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California).^[1][2] Saxe’s early works were primarily site-specific sculpture that employed large arrays of modular ceramic sections. Later, he turned to producing ornate vessels.

He has produced work for major solo and group exhibitions around the world and in 1983 he became the first artist fellow in residency at L’Atelier Experimental de Recherche et de Creation de la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres in France.^[3]

Saxe is currently a member of the Art Department faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles^[4].

[edit] References

• Galusha, Emily (ed.), What's Clay Got to do with it?, A symposium on ceramics criticism, March 24-25, 1995, Saint Paul, Minn., Northern Clay Center, 1995.
• Levin, Elaine M. (ed.), Movers and Shakers in American Ceramics, Defining Twentieth Century Ceramics, A collection of articles from Ceramics monthly, Westerville, OH, American Ceramic Society, 2003.
• Lynn, Martha Drexler, The Clay Art of Adrian Saxe, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.