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American,
b. 1942
Handled Teapot
1995
Porcelain
15 x 13.25 x 5.625 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
1996.27
Louis Marak’s illusionistic ceramics grew from his interest in optical illusions and surreal compositions. His clay bodies are a mixture of commercial buff stoneware and traditional porcelain, with added nylon fibers to decrease the risk of the slabs fracturing or distorting. He makes preparatory cartoons on paper at 1:1 scale in order to incise low relief lines and texture drawings into leather-hard press-molded clay slabs. He then brushes on porcelain slips in several layers to create false perspectives. Once the basic form is complete, the work is bisque fired, and a dark stain is airbrushed on to highlight the trompe l’oeil illusions that are characteristic of his work. Marak’s images are full of illusory juxtapositions like that in Handled Teapot, where a hand appears to push through several horizontal levels of a nonetheless flat ceramic box.
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