1997

	WORKSHOPS EXHIBITIONS PRINTMAKING ANAGAMA		AWARDS FOUNDRY GALLERY AFFILIATION ONLINE RESOURCES
	WORKSHOPS   Peter Voulkos gave workshops at Anderson Ranch in Colorado and Peter Callas' Studio in Belvidere, New Jersey with Paul Soldner and Rudy Autio in the summer of 1997. In November, he and Callas conducted a workshop & lecture at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Pictured at right, Pete is working on an ice bucket at Anderson Ranch.
	EXHIBITIONS   In Chicago, Perimeter Gallery hosted a solo exhibition from mid- October through mid- November of Voulkos' new ceramic stacks, plates, ice buckets and teabowls; prints and monotypes as well as several paintings from the early 1960s and new bronze dolls. A 1995 woodfired stack, Yakiimo, was featured on the announcement reproduced at right. Take a tour of the show via snapshots Voulkos took of the installation. He also participated in a 2 man show with Peter Callas hosted by the University of Central Florida Art Gallery and the U.C.F. Potters' Guild from November 10th to December 6th.		Above: Yakiimo, 1995,  woodfired stoneware,  42" H x 19" D, CR1122-W.  Photo: Hiromu Narita
			Left: Line Stack Monotype, 1997, unique drypoint, image: 9" H x 6" W, CR281.3-Pr. The drypoint illustrated on the left was also in the show at Perimeter. This is one of many prints Voulkos has been making at Anderson Ranch with printer, Robert Brinker of Ma Nose Studios, Inc, Aspen. To see more of them, go to Brinker's site at www.pamopoly.com.
	PRINTMAKING   Since 1984, Voulkos has been making prints, such as the monotype at right, at Magnolia Editions, the Oakland press owned by Donald Farnsworth and David Kimball. It was exhibited at Voulkos' solo show at Braunstein/Quay Gallery in San Francisco in 1995.		Above: Untitled, 1995, 43/45,  extended version, CR277.6-Pr.  image: 17-7/8" H x 14-3/4" W.  Photo: Schopplein Studio

		THE ANAGAMA (KILN)
		Pictured above is a view of the firebox just after a 1993 firing of Peter Callas' 18 foot long anagama located in Belvidere, New Jersey. Most of the accumulated ash from the firing has been removed. Two Voulkos stacks, Tarrega and Sibley, lie on their sides while two plates sit vertically against the sides of the kiln and a third is positioned between the stacks. Anagama is the Japanese word for a single chambered kiln. The firing is done entirely with wood over 7-10 days firing time followed by an equally long cooling period. Voulkos' woodfired work is fired primarily in this kiln by Peter Callas who has been firing Voulkos' work since 1979. Photo: Bruce Riggs

	AWARDS		Voulkos was honored by four organizations in the past year. The Friends of Contemporary Ceramics gave him a Ceramic Lifetime Achievement of the Year Award for 1997 in March. The National Council on the Education for the Ceramic Arts presented him with the NCECA Award for Teaching Excellence in April. The College Art Association honored him with a Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement and the james renwick alliance selected voulkos as one of five to receive a masters of the medium award. for more information, go to the James Renwick Alliance site which also features artworks by the recipients. Voulkos works pictured are Little Big Horn, 1959, Big Jupiter, 1994 and Sirius, 1989-1991.
	FOUNDRY   In 1986 Voulkos began casting some of his work originally created in clay into the bronze medium at Piero Mussi's Artworks Foundry in Berkeley. Big Ed, a 1994 ceramic stack, was the source for the bronze stack pictured at right.		Above: Untitled Stack, 1995, cast bronze, S4-AP, 40" H x 27" x 28-1/2" Photo: Schopplein Studio

   

	GALLERY AFFILIATION Peter Voulkos is represented by the following galleries:
	Braunstein/Quay Gallery 430 Clementina Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel. 415. 278-9850 Fax. 415. 278-9841 e-mail: bquayg@pacbell.net		Perimeter Gallery 210 West Superior Street Chicago, IL 60610 Tel. 312. 266-9473 Fax. 312. 266-7984 e-mail: PerimeterGallery@perimetergallery.com
	Charles Cowles Gallery 537 West 24th Street New York, New York 10011 Tel. 212. 925-3500 Fax. 212. 925-3501 e-mail: info@cowlesgallery.com		Kenji Taki Gallery 3-20-25 Sakae Nakaku Nagoya 460-0008 Japan Tel. 052. 264-7747 Fax. 052. 264-7744 e-mail: ktg-nagoya@pop06.odn.ne.jp
	Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Avenue Kansas City, Missouri 64108 Tel. 816. 221-22626 Fax. 816. 221-8689 e-mail: sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com

ONLINE RESOURCES Listed below is a selection of other web sites with online sources for articles relating to or reviews of Voulkos' work and several museums which have published portions of the artwork in their collections including the following works by Voulkos. The first listing is a review of the survey exhibition, “The Art of Peter Voulkos,” organized by the Oakland Museum of California in 1995 which travelled to the Newport Harbor Art Museum and the American Craft Museum. This article is very informative and interesting. “PETER VOULKOS” by Roberta Carasso in ArtScene; The Guide to Art Galleries and Museums in Southern California. This review is of the Oakland Museum show at its next venue -the Newport Harbor Art Museum in Orange County. Passing Red, 1959, Little Big Horn, 1959 (another view), Untitled Plate, 1980, and Untitled Ice Bucket, 1983, are illustrated. “A FISTFUL OF CATALOGUES” by Merle Schipper in ArtScene; The Guide to Art Galleries and Museums in Southern California.A 1962 Untitled Plate is reproduced. “Firing Peter H. Voulkos' Work in the Anagama: At the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, 1995, By Peter Callas,” an article written by Darren Damonte, is a good description of the nuances of the anagama and Callas' firing techniques in particular. At the site of the “Rudy Autio Contemporary Ceramic Collection” at the University of Montana, Voulkos' Covered Jar, 1954, Tureen, 1954, and an anagama fired stoneware plate, 1995, (CR1192-W) are reproduced. “The Public Art at the University of California”, Los Angeles site has two views of Gallas Rock, 1960, and one of Soleares, 1958, online. These sculptures are in the collection of the Franklin Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA. A 1956 Tall Covered Jar is pictured in the “American Ceramics” section of the Everson Museum of Art collection. Shiho Kanzaki has featured on his web site in a section called “Peter H. Voulkos” some of Voulkos' more recent woodfired pieces including Yakiimo, 1995 (another view), Big A, 1990, Jabo, 1994, and three 1995 plates.

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