Michael Lucero
Subtitle: sculpture 1976-1995
By: Mark Richard Leach and Barbara J. Bloemink ; with an essay by Lucy R. Lippard.
Contributors: Bloemink, Barbara J.; Lippard, Lucy R.; Mint Museum of Art.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; Hudson Hills Pr
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Lucero, Michael, 1953-  -- Exhibitions
Description: This volume presents two decades of Michael Lucero's glazed ceramic, bronze, and mixed media sculptures, including such series as the Dreamers, Pre-Columbus, New World, and Reclamations.

While at first glance his work appears to be a vigorous example of contemporary ceramic sculpture with a background in 1960s California art and a foreground in New York eclecticism, in fact his figurative forms borrow liberally and wittily from the history of art of various cultures, including pre-Columbian, Native American, European, Afro-Carolinian, and the vernacular and popular media. The imagery that slides in and out of the complex glazes of this master of the ceramic medium is art about art and about self.

The consistent strength of the work comes from a fusion of ceramic tradition with sculptural innovation, and from a combination of extraordinarily fine technique, keen wide-ranging intelligence, and the resonance brought to bear by past associations, cultures, and use.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-153) and index.
Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, Mar. 16-June 9, 1996 and at four others through April 1998.