Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Softcover Book
A wonderful long-overdue and hard to find monograph on the playful, pop-inspired ceramics of West Coast legend Magdalena Frimkess. Sure to elicit joy in any unconventional ceramicist or collector.
This is the first book on the Venice, California-based ceramicist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1926). Now in her 90s, the Venezuela-born artist is just now getting the recognition she deserves, with her work finding its way into the collections of LACMA and the Hammer Museum. With her unique approach to ceramics--incorporating cartoon characters such as Felix the Cat, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Goofy and Betty Boop as well as more traditional motifs such as landscapes, birds and flowers--she has charmed a younger generation of artists such as Jonas Wood, Shio Kusaka, Mark Grotjahn, Lesley Vance and Australian artist Ricky Swallow, who contributes an essay here.
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess offers a broad range of the colourful autobiographical pieces she has produced over her career. This book also includes a poster of one of her characteristic cartoon works.
Softcover, 20.05cm x 15.8cm
First Edition, 1000 copies
Publisher: South Willard Press 2019
ISBN: 9781942884514
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