A reverence design shines through everything the curator and author touches, including his preferred plate.
According to Glenn Adamson, the perfect recipe starts with a beautifully crafted ceramic plate. “I don’t know who made it, but it was a good day in their studio,” the curator, author, and historian shares of the blue-and-white striped earthenware that holds a single, bright red pepper. Adamson’s fascination with pottery goes back to his early years as a museum intern at MAD Museum, where he discovered the work of Voulkos, whose disruptive yet composed oeuvre mixed ceramics and clay with other media. More recently, he co-curated the ongoing Noguchi Museum exhibit Worlds Within: The Art of Toshiko Takaezu. For Adamson, ceramics exist in a space where function and decoration intertwine, challenging the conventional boundaries of art and design.
The ceramic recipe:
- Stoneware with shino glaze, with feathered drags of cobalt.