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Globe
Globe
Globe

Globe

Artist Rick Dillingham 1952 Lake Forest, Illinois - 1994 Santa Fe, New Mexico
Date1976
Mediumreassembled klin-fired ceramic with glazes and metal leaf
Dimensions9 x 13 in. (22.9 x 33 cm)
ClassificationsCeramic
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, estate of Rick Dillingham
Object numberPC1994.41.10
DescriptionCeramic glazed pot with a small opening that has been broken and pieced back together with different green and white X-shapes painted on the individual fragments against shades of pink and purple in the background.
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Globo

1976

cerámica reconstruida horneada al fuego con esmaltes y hoja metálica

legado de Rick Dillingham

PC1994.41.10

 

Rick Dillingham fusionó ideas estéticas de diversas culturas sin recurrir a la imitación. Sus cerámicas combinan aspectos contradictorios de las tradiciones cerámicas pueblo y europeoamericanas. Dillingham modelaba, pulía, pintaba y cocía sus recipientes de manera convencional. Después rompía a conciencia el recipiente, volvía a pintar los fragmentos sin tener en cuenta el diseño original y, después, volvía a cocer al fuego los pedazos. Las vasijas de Dillingham no estaban terminadas hasta que volvía a pegar las piezas. Los diseños acentuaban la fragmentación del objeto.

Rick Dillingham

1952 Lake Forest, Illinois – 1994 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Globe

1976
reassembled kiln-fired ceramic with glazes and metal leaf

bequest of Rick Dillingham

PC1994.41.10

Rick Dillingham fused aesthetic ideas across cultural boundaries without resorting to replication. His ceramics blend contradictory aspects of Pueblo and European American pottery traditions. Dillingham conventionally molded, polished, painted, and fired his vessels. He then consciously broke the vessel, repainted the fragments without regard to the original design, and re-fired the sherds. Dillingham’s vessels were not complete until he glued the pieces back together. The designs accentuated the fracturing of the object.

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