Description:
brightly polychromed glazed ceramic, mainly orange colored, in two segments; bottom half a pedestal table, top half bunched elements, including cartoon figures
Label Text:
Storybook and movie characters - Raggedy Ann, Dumbo, Curious George, Annie Oakley mingle here with figurines and knick-knacks. Seemingly discarded in a precarious way, each object is nevertheless carefully places. Visual puns and humor abound: a water pitcher next to a baseball batter, St. Francis and Mary with her little lamb jostling the American eagle. Frey gives these depictions of popular culture the colors and glazing typical of majolica, an expensive Italian ceramic.
Frey inherited al love of popular culture from her father and grandfather, avid junk collectors in the farm community of Lodi, California, where she grew up. She studied with painters Richard Diebenkorn and Mark Rothko and usually incorporates painting and rich colors in her ceramic still-lifes and over-life-sized human figures.
Tags:
nonrepresentational art; animals; caricatures Link to share this object record:
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