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Mentor - Peter Voulkos


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Peter Voulkos’ sculptures are famous for their visual weight, their freely-formed construction, and their aggressive and energetic decoration. He would vigorously tear, pound, and gouge the surfaces of his pieces. At some points in his career, he cast his sculptures in bronze; in other periods his ceramic works were glazed or painted, and he finished them with painted brushstrokes.

Voulkos’ work is found in museums around the world, including:

• the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, in New York
• the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC
• the Stedelijk Museums in Amsterdam and Eindhoven
• the Tokyo Folk Art Museum and the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art in Japan
• the National Gallery, in Melbourne, Australia
• the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London