This weekend I bought a crackle glaze ceramic bowl. With a 20" diameter, the scale is impressive. The first thing I thought of was Glen Lukens. The glaze and shallow bowl form seem so related.
In 2010 the Frank Lloyd gallery mounted a ceramics exhibition called Frank Gehry Selects. This is the Lukens Gehry selected for the exhibition. The group ceramics show also included work by John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, Billy Al Bengston, Elsa Rady, Peter Shire, Glen Lukens, George Ohr, and Frank Gehry himself. Frank Llyod has really had some amazing exhibitions.
From the Frank Lloyd website: When Frank Gehry took a ceramics class in college, it marked a turning point. His ceramics teacher at the University of Southern California, Glen Lukens, clearly recognized Gehry’s interest in architecture. Since Lukens was building a house designed by architect Raphael Soriano, he invited the young Gehry to visit the site one day. That’s when Gehry got excited about architecture: “I do know a lightbulb went off when I saw Soriano,” he recalled.Since that time, Gehry has maintained his interest in ceramics, too. He made ceramic works during his student days at USC, and he has collected work by Glen Lukens, Ken Price and George Ohr. He has been friends with Peter Voulkos, John Mason, Billy Al Bengston and Elsa Rady for decades. He was the architect for the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi, as well, and that museum will hold a collection of pottery by George Ohr.
More about the exhibition here.
