Cranbrook Art Museum - Exhibitions - Look Alikes: Howard Kottler


Cranbrook Academy of Art’s NETWORK GALLERY presents: Look Alikes: The Decal Plates of Howard Kottler October 7, 2005 through January 8, 2006 In the late 1960s, the influential American ceramist and Academy graduate Howard Kottler (1930-1989; CAA MFA 1957), began to experiment with commercial decals on store-bought plates, anathemas in the then insular world of traditional studio potters who wedged clay and calculated glazes. “Look Alikes” presents sixty works from this inventive chapter in Kottler’s career. “Look Alikes” was organized by Tacoma Art Museum in Washington. The exhibition and catalogue have been made possible by generous support from the Howard Kottler Testamentary Trust. The exhibition was curated by independent curator Vicki Halper.
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Metrotimes: Dishing it up. by Dennis Alan Nawrocki,11/9/2005. Howard Kottler, self-described “decalcomaniac,” has been outed at Cranbrook. His decorated plates from the ’60s and ’70s have been sprung from shelves and china cabinets, so visitors can chuckle as they scan the riffs on gay life and other cultural puns on porcelain...
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Cranbrook Art Museum's 2005-2006 Exhibition Season is generously sponsored by LaSalle Bank. The 2005-2006 Exhibition Season also is presented with the support of the Museum Committee of Cranbrook Art Museum including Adele Acheson, Maggie Allesee, John Berry, Jonathan Boos, Keenie Fieger, Maxine Frankel, Ralph Graham, Stanley Grandon, John Henke, Jonathan Holtzman, Diane Kirkpatrick, David Klein, Til Klem, Wendy MacGaw, Diane VanderBeke Mager, James Nichols, Michael Poris, Cathy Rosenthal, Jane Schulak, Gilbert Silverman, Ronald Swanson, and Gary Wasserman. Cranbrook Art Museum also is supported by the contributors to the Annual Fund of both Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Art Museum, the fund-raising activites of ArtMembers@Cranbrook, including both Fanfare and Serious Moonlight, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Cranbrook Art Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with extended hours until 9 p.m. the Fourth Friday of each month. Cranbrook Art Museum Members: Free! Adults: $6 Full-Time Students with ID and Teens 13 and over: $4 Senior Citizens (65+): $4 Children 12 and under: Free! No credit cards accepted Personnal checks welcomed U.S. currency only For more information, please call 1.877.GO.CRANBrook. (1.877.462.7262)