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Venezuelan,
b. 1929
American,
b. 1937
Mickey Mouse
1989
Stoneware
13.5 x 8.2 x 8.2 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
2001.64
Few potters have explored the overlap between ceramics and popular culture as have the husband-and-wife duo Michael Frimkess and Magdelena Suarez Frimkess. In Mickey Mouse, a classical ceramic form is covered with decoration depicting iconic cartoon imagery. The combination of mass media with traditional vessel shapes points to the variety of influences that go into the melting pot of American culture. In his search for the perfect vessel, Michael Frimkess adopted ceramic forms from Greek, Native American, Chinese, and Peruvian traditions. These forms acted as a base for Magdalena’s surface painting, which combines her perspective as a Venezuelan immigrant with a critical view of globalized American mass media.
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