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Indepth Arts News:
"Marc Leuthold, Ceramics"
1999-10-02 until 1999-11-14
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY,
USA United States of America
For the past ten years, the artist Marc Leuthold has focused on creating intricately
carved ceramic discs, wheels, and cones. Leuthold incises his forms' surfaces with
complex patterns of rippling rays that emanate from a central, often hollow, disk. The
intricate carving highlights the process of the works' making: proceeding without a
preliminary sketch, the artist wields a sharp knife with precision, quickly cutting at
one angle and then its complement to excise wedges of clay. Each cut seems to be a
revelation, to be considered on its own and in relationship to the previous cut, so that
Leuthold discovers carving techniques and patterns as he works, just as he embraces
the accidental and irregular. The deeply carved surfaces are experiments with light and
line, but are visually organized by fundamental geometric principles. Leuthold works
in earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain, which he sometimes glazes, but also
effectively leaves in the biscuit stage. A diversity of historic, artistic, scientific, and
spiritual considerations informs the making of Leuthold's radiating circular forms,
ranging from the porcelains of the Sun Dynasty to Merovingian metal work, from
astronomical notions about the cosmos to the near universal significance of the circle
in world religions.
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