Untitled (Mama Pot)

Copied Ruth Duckworth, Untitled (Mama Pot), 2007, stoneware, 20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm) diam., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly, 2022.64.1

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (Mama Pot)
Artist
Date
2007
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm) diam.
Credit Line
Gift of Colleen and John Kotelly
Mediums
Mediums Description
stoneware
Classifications
Subjects
  • Object — other — dish
Object Number
2022.64.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2022.64.1

Artwork Description

Ruth Duckworth made this monumental pot as part of her Mama Pots, a series of vessels characterized by hand-shaped slabs and bisecting blades of stoneware. The interior cavities absorb light and cast evocative shadows across its sleek lines. Duckworth often lingered on core dualities in her creative practice: the interaction between visible and invisible, interior and exterior, and a discrete sculpture and infinite space.


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