Virginia Cartwright (American, b. 1943)

Folded vase/vessel

Signed on bottom

DIMENSIONS:

~6.5” H x 5.5” W

~4” opening

ARTIST’S PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

The Smithsonian Art Institute, Renwick Gallery

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Norra Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

The Museum of Contemporary Ceramics in Phoenix

BIOGRAPHY (from marks project):

Virginia Cartwright is known in her early career for wheel-thrown pieces but after 4 years she began to hand and slab-build thin walled functional pieces. Surfaces are left unglazed or are finished with deeply carved and slip-trailed surface techniques. Cartwright has also worked with colored clay that she creates by sifting dry colored clay onto a moist slab, then carving the surface and stretching the clay before forming the final object.

In addition to ceramic works, Cartwright produces digital prints she calls Kaleidoscope Images. Plants and glass shards are used to create the content of the images.

Cartwright studied with Franz Wildenhain at Rochester Institute of Technology.

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