Mary MacNaughton, director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery and associate professor of art history at Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³», talks about Pacific Standard Time and “Clay’s Tectonic Shift,” focusing on the ways in which Mason, Price and Voulkos created a new kind of clay sculpture which left the domain of craft to align with the avant-garde. Their radical early work formed the vanguard of a new direction in postwar ceramics.
MacNaughton edited and wrote an essay for the exhibition catalog Clay’s Tectonic shift: John Mason, Ken Price, and Peter Voulkos, 1956-1968. In addition, she has contributed to several books on ceramics, including Revolution in Clay: the Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, and retrospectives on Paul Soldner and David Furman.
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