Carrara
| dc.contributor.author | Mel Katz (b. 1932) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-20T19:22:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-20T19:22:11Z | |
| dc.description | Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932, Mel Katz graduated from the Cooper Union Art School in New York and attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School. In 1964 he moved to Portland, Oregon, to teach at the Portland Art Museum School, and in 1966 he accepted a teaching position at Portland State University, where he taught for the next thirty-two years. Originally trained as a painter, Katz turned to sculpture in the early 1970s to create works that are firmly rooted in the principles of geometric abstraction. Because he was a painter before he became a sculptor, Katz has always been keenly interested in the materiality of the object; surface, design, and color are important elements in his work. Carrara, named after the famous marble quarried in Tuscany in Italy, reflects a period in his career when he was preoccupied with the contribution that Formica and other types of commercially produced plastic materials could make to his work through their colors, patterns, and textures. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Gift of Dianne C. Anderson | |
| dc.format | Image | |
| dc.format.extent | 88" x 22" x 28.5" | |
| dc.format.medium | Sculpture | |
| dc.format.medium | Plastic laminate, vinyl, and wood | |
| dc.identifier.other | 2009.042 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10177/19641 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem Oregon | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Northwest Art Collection | |
| dc.rights | For use information see: http://www.willamette.edu/arts/hfma/collections/copyright.html | |
| dc.title | Carrara | |
| dspace.iiif.enabled | TRUE | |
| iiif.canvas.naming | Image | |
| local.culture | North American / United States / Oregon | |
| local.mastercopy | HfmoaVolume37/katz.jpg |