Vessel
1970 · Stoneware with slip
16.6 × 29.3 × 29.3 cm (6 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Steve Lucas
Hopi, 1955
WA-00056952
Ceramics
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Steve Lucas is a Hopi ceramicist whose work continues the pueblo pottery tradition with contemporary formal innovation. Working primarily in clay, he creates vessels and sculptural forms that engage with historical Hopi firing techniques and decorative vocabularies while developing a distinctly personal visual language. His practice reflects deep knowledge of ancestral ceramic methods alongside a modernist sensibility in form and composition.
Source: Aic · Trust score: 50% · Updated 7d ago
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